News: 4/19/07 (AM)

• FBI eyeing inmates' suit in beatings, lawyer says (Illinois)
• 2 deaths reported at prison in Licking (Missouri)
• Ex-prison guard gets 20 years for inmate rape (New Hampshire)
• Chambers: State didn't follow law on execution (Nebraska)
• Prison reform poised for OK (Washington)
• Government stalls on proposal to put young criminals in adult prisons (UK)
• Prisons Crisis - How Inmates DiedAt Kuje (Nigeria)
• Experts condemn prison conditions (Switzerland)
• More jails will not solve overcrowding crisis, warns Woolf (UK)
• Prisons' boss reveals de-congestion plans (Botswana)
• Prisons chief Dennehy leaving post (Massachusetts)
• Another Local Prison Closing (Michigan)
• Medical Bills Mount for County Jails (Nebraska)
• New corrections officers graduate from academy (New Jersey)
• Books Through Bars (Connecticut)

H/T to Corrections Connection

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