News: 5/16/2007

• New law aims to create balance in prison-release placement (Washington)
• Escapes prompt review of rules (Michigan)
• Feds looking to put prisoners in understaffed regional jails (Tennesee)
• Fresh probe into Shaik's 'preferential treatment' (South Africa)
• Booth to head new prisons commission (UK)
• Province to expand prisons (Canada)
• Police cells still used as jails (UK)
• Nigeria frees elderly prisoners before power shift (Nigeria)
• State Contracts to Put Inmates in Two Bridges (Nebraska)
• Revised jail budget tops $11 million mark (Kansas)
• Bill allowing early release of county inmates progresses (Michigan)

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News: 5/10/2007 (AM)

• Crist ready for executions to resume (Florida)
• DOC alters procedure for lethal injections (Florida)
• Tennessee prisons defend pizza decision
• Former staffers doubt abuse claims (Oregon)
• Official: Mentally ill in Jails Getting Help Faster (Florida)
• Man in early jail release involved in crash (Florida)
• What about Roberto? (California)
• Inmate costs over budget (Illinois)
• US BOP Entitled To End Boot Camp Program
• New prisons not sustainable (New Zealand)
• Judges are told to cut jail terms for thieves (UK)
• Lord Falconer: MoJ will provide 'better outcomes' for justice (UK)
• Conservatives: MoJ proposals an 'insult to victims' (UK)
• Corrections to appeal against order to reinstate prison officer (New Zealand)
• 'Our justice system faces several crises' (South Africa)
• State rescinds deal for private prison (Colorado)
• Behind bars (Nevada)
• Bellevue delays vote on residency for sex offenders (Wisconsin)

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News: 4/30/2007 (AM)

• New Castle riot participants are segregated (Indiana)
• California to expand its packed prisons
• Jailers break up 'disturbance' at Sullivan County Jail (Tennessee)
• Salem priest to face accusers at trial (Oregon)
• Newspaper reports TYC supervisor rebuffed multiple abuse warnings (Texas)
• OMH and DOCS support settlement of prison mental health care lawsuit (New York)
• Oregon State Penitentiary inmate dies
• Corrections workers in stalking law (Washington)
• A prison confession: The rot inside Kenya’s prison walls
• Jails in state to house more inmates (India)
• Judges to rule on justice ministry (UK)
• Sex and drugs rife in UK prisons
• Thousands await executions in US prisons
• Find more savings in prisons (Michigan)
• Palm Bay Killer Far From Execution 20 Years Later (Florida)
• Despite repairs, crowded Downeast Correctional Facility is showing its years (Maine)

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News: 4/27/2007 (AM)

• Miami Inmate's Treatment Questioned (Florida)
• Police say 16 molesters are staying at Garden Grove motels (California)
• Legislature quickly OKs prison plan: Governor expected to sign measure (California)
• Waiting game for SJ prisons (California)
• Geo loses California contract
• Survey shows that five inmates die every day. (Kenya)
• Prisons boss sets up committee to fast- track reforms (Nigeria)
• Freed offenders fail drug tests (Australia)
• Greece prison protest ends
• Jailbirds coughing up less for smokes (Australia)
• 2 inmates escape from Cocke Co. Jail (Tennessee)
• Sheriff to pay $500000 to settle jail suit (Florida)
• Author foresees end of capital punishment (Missouri)
• Prison to Limit Inmates Toilet Paper (Kansas)

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News: 4/18/2007 (AM)

• Prison overcrowding poses safety problems (Maine)
• New Standards for City’s Jails Are Debated (New York)
• Bill ending life without parole for young killers advances (California)
• Missouri Department of Corrections disputes sex harassment claims
• Only nets can prevent escapes (Belgium)
• Punjab prisons 171 percent overcrowded (India)
• New law to protect kids against adults (South Africa)
• Russian Women Serving Sentence in Prisons of United Arab Emirates learning Quran (Russia)
• Pike Co. voters say no to prison (Tennesee)
• Navajo council approves emergency appropriation for Chinle jail (New Mexico)
• Justice: Prison reform needs urgent (Nevada)
• Jeffco weighs another jail expansion (Colorado)
• Deal to help mentally ill prisoners (New York)
• Court rules in favor of inmates (Missouri)
• Sex offender policy targeted (California)

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News: 4/17/2007 (PM)

• New tapes allegedly show guard, inmate (Texas)
• Inmate Found Dead, Sister Arrested (Oklahoma)
• Corrections sergeant indicted for striking, choking inmate (Florida)
• Prison bribery case nets new guilty pleas (Oregon)
• Missouri Department of Corrections disputes sex harassment claims
• Man gets 10-20 years in conspiracy to kill prison guard (Michigan)
• Execution room outrage imperils prisons project (California)
• Will Fate of Death Sentence Hang in the Balance, Again? (Kenya)
• ACC legislation hindering victim redress - lawyer (New Zealand)
• Christian parties clash over hanging (UK)
• ¢467m spent on prisons HIV/AIDS project (Ghana)
• Newspaper sues to see draft of new execution procedures (Tennesee)
• State plans to close one Ionia prison, re-open another (Michigan)

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