News 11/24/2008

• Trial May Boost Corrections Industry (California)
• Budget Cuts Hit Kansas Department of Corrections
• Officials: Gangs run drug trade in prisons (New Jersey)
• New crime measure has big cost (Oregon)
• Local wards, inmates help in SoCal fire fight (California)
• Man Turns From Life of Crime to Life of God (Nebraska)
• Scottish Prison Service plans mobile phone clampdown in jail
• Call to 'split up' prison service (Scotland)
• Government Has Approved Prisoners Transfer Programme (Malaysia)
• Jail's impact positive, locals say (Canada)
• Bishops Conference to host prison chaplains meet in Manila (Phillipines)
  

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News: 5/31/2007

• Suicide Rates Drop in Calfornia State Prisons
• More teens kept in adult jails (Ohio)
• New director focuses on future of state's prisons (Iowa)
• Accommodations Being Made As Average Age of Prisoners Rise (New York)
• Counties strain to find room for criminals (Ohio)
• GOP report critical of inmate releases, open to changes (Michigan)
• The Big Question: Why are our prisons so overcrowded, and how can we tackle the crisis? (UK)
• Teens to stay in adult jails (Australia)
• Vacant buildings to become prisons (Malaysia)
• Children who stay with mothers in prisons hamper – Prison officer (Ghana)
• 2 prisons plan to expand (Oklahoma)
• Camden wants prisons gone from downtown (New Jersey)

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News: 5/28/2007

• Court to consider capping prisons (California)
• Senate OKs bill to reduce prison need (Texas)
• Corrections hopes bill will reduce recidivism (Kansas)
• Wanted: More Texas prison guards
• WSJ eyes profit in prison building boom
• Chemical castration program might be expanded (Oregon)
• Private jails lack the staff ethos integral to halting offending (UK)
• Kenya: Prisoners on Deathrow Demand Conjugal Rights
• Concern at prison overcrowding (UK)
• Rehab programmes hosted at jails but no practising social workers (Guyana)
• Inmates Running Prisons Says Watchdog (New Zealand)
• Prison managers given pay rises, says corrections (New Zealand)
• New bill could change how inmates make calls (Ohio)
• Bobblehead doll sends 350 workers fleeing from Washington corrections offices

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News: 5/25/2007

• Inmate executed for cellmate murder (Ohio)
• California May Soon Spend More on Prisons than Colleges
• Prisons official quits in porn stir (South Carolina)
• Jails at bursting point as numbers hit another all time high (UK)
• UN Project to Improve Prisons And Police in Southern Sudan Wins Grant
• Prisoner yacht refit claims spark investigation (New Zealand)
• Better care for ex-prisoners call (UK)
• Corrections Corp. Expands Oklahoma Prisons
• New Mexico pays more for private prisons, report says
• State will boost capacity at nine prisons to save money (Michigan)
• Legislators eye adding guards, using county jails to ease overcrowding (Maine)

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News: 5/23/2007

• DOC withdraws request to release illegal immigrants (Oklahoma)
• Prisons chief hails execution team secrecy (Missouri)
• Texas short on guards as lawmakers mull new prisons
• Taxpayer to fork out R5.3bn for new jails (South Africa)
• Mafias Control Ecuador Jails
• Jails crisis as prisoner numbers reach new peak (UK)
• Corrections admits corruption widespread (New Zealand)
• Prisons officers to boycott sports day (Trinidad)
• Prisons department to go hi-tech (Tanzania)
• Prison neighbors rally against sex offender plan (New Jersey)
• New tour delves deeper into life at Alcatraz (California)
• Prison Inmates to Work in Industries (Georgia)

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News: 5/22/2007

• In California, prisons' budget to trump colleges'
• Locked Up and Ailing (California)
• Executioners need identity shielded, state says (Missouri)
• Shortage of corrections officers kills jail-space deal (Washington)
• Lack of medical bills dogs prisons (Ohio)
• Jails paying more for inmates' medical expenses (Indiana)
• Corrections' attitude to bribes concerning (New Zealand)
• Not my job to build prisons, says Balfour (UK)
• ‘Speed up new prisons’ (South Africa)
• Prisoner sex ban in WA jails (Australia)
• Trinidad prisons officers on work to rule (Trinidad and Tobago)
• All change at Department of Corrections (New Zealand)
• Prisons to undertake new role (Tanzania)
• A tale of 2 jails, and both unwanted (Pennsylvania)

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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: 5/14/2007 (AM)

• Prison crisis looming (Nevada)
• Pak children in jails vulnerable to sexual abuse (India)
• Australian Indigenous people over-represented in prisons: report (Australia)
• Make halfway house a priority: residents (Canada)
• Judges seek to retain sentencing powers in prisons crisis (UK)
• Double the prison population – MP (UK)
• Outrage Against Gay Partners–In–Crime Kept Together (India)
• York County may follow Hall's lead for jail reimbursements (New York)
• Berlin prison could be a boon for North Country (Vermont)

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News: 5/13/2007 (Weekend)

• Dale County Jail Riot (Alabama)
• Paralyzed in prison (Pennsylvania)
• Drug charge filed against jail guard (US Federal)
• Juvenile Corrections Complaints (South Dakota)
• Alabama prison population near high after end of speedy paroles
• Prison overcrowding dilema: State prisons 98 percent capacity (Oklahoma)
• Union's fears on prisoner rail work (UK)
• Nicotine patches calm Watch House inmates (Australia)
• War-torn nations look to US prisons for model
• Hard time hard to shake: Habitual offenders take toll on Santa Cruz County Resources (California)
• Program attempts to steer mentally ill away from prison (New Hampshire)
• Prison project on ice (Alaska)
• Stockton correctional facility could see expansion in future (Kansas)
• Victim's Dad Helps Craft Bill Requiring Blended Sentences (Maine)
• New tour delves deeper into daily life at Alcatraz (California)

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News 5/11/2007 (AM)

• Commissioners inspect jail (Michigan)
• More than 400 immigrants fill state prisons (Oklahoma)
• Two instructors assaulted at youth center (Illinois)
• 27 lifers released (India)
• Prison Health Care Plan Looking Strong (Canada)
• New ministry is hit by jails crisis on its first day (UK)
• Prison worker gets cancer care award (UK)
• Prisoner Custody Officers will escort prisoners to and from courts (UK)
• DA: Don't free violent inmates (South Africa)
• Manufacturing firm saves itself £500000 by employing prisoners (UK)
• Brooklyn House of Detention Two Parts Jail, One Part Residential (New York)

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News: 5/10/2007 (PM)

• Az prisons chief looks warily at Indiana riot probe (Arizona)
• Ambitious plan for California's prisons released today
• Reporters subpoenaed in Fla. execution
• Judge concerned about state's handling of death penalty case (Wyoming)
• $145K for jail suicide (Florida)
• Unauthorized cell phones in Nevada prisons now a crime
• Jail administrator answers allegations made by inmate (Oklahoma)
• City-County Jail has generated $3.5 million since '02: Maier (Illinois)
• New Otago Corrections Facility opens (New Zealand)
• Obasanjo Seeks Reform for Prison, Police, Judiciary (Nigeria)
• Shocking disclosure at Prison Inquiry (Barbados)
• Prison service ruled out of running Scotland's new jail
• Numbers Crunchers: Data shows programs designed to keep inmates on right path working (Massachusetts)
• County wants state parolees out of Dutchess jail (New York)
• Florida Jail Guard Facing Felony Bribery Charges

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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: 5/8/2007 (AM)

• Death Chamber: Double The Cost (California)
• TYC reform legislation moves to conference committee (Texas)
• A new approach to help young offenders (California) - part 2
• Assembly set to vote on bills affecting the hiring of felons (Wisconsin)
• Prison warden resigns (Pennsylvania)
• Home Office prepares for split (UK)
• Man 'with brain' gets chance to use it (New Zealand)
• Archive Will Document Life In NI Prisons (UK)
• Commissioners hear report about STAR program court (Texas)
• Cornell 'positioned for growth' after flat quarter
• Consultant: Lee jail population increased in 2006 (Florida)
• On Navajo Nation, dwindling jail space, poor conditions prompt calls for change
• Township: Prison population of 2000 should not be expanded (Pennsylvania)
• IRCC one of two prisons which will no longer be served by ICC teachers (Illinois)
• Candidates share views on alternative sentencing (Kentucky)
• Playboy spread reignites Pennsylvania prison debate
• How bad is jail? See for yourself (Wisconsin)
• Interview with a Corrections Officer at a Jail Similar to Where Paris Hilton Will Do Time (California)

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News: 5/7/2007 (PM)

• Special Report: Dying Behind Bars (Michigan)
• Number of Sex Offenders Rising in Pasco (Washington)
• Manhunt Continues for Suspects in CMC's Prison Guard Attack (California)
• guard rescued inmates come to the aid of a corrections officer who was attacked by prisoner (Virginia)
• Prisons plan 'vetoed by Blair' (UK)
• Judges 'may be forced into lighter sentences' (UK)
• Officer says he had no idea what caused the uprising (Barbados)
• Prison art auction raises more than $30000 for at-risk families (New Zealand)
• Youths in adult jails increase (UK)
• 'Ghost' child prisoners languish in RP jails - group (Philippines)
• Bill Could Shorten Some Drug Dealers' Prison Time (Maryland)
• Delegate miffed by the leak of prison visit (West Virginia)
• Residents Upset Over Plan to Bring In Sex Offenders (Pennsylvania)
• Paint can full of pot sent to inmate (South Carolina)
• Warden Killed More Than 130 Years Ago Finally Gets a Headstone (Utah)

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Opinion: 5/7/2007

• Mental health system failing (Indiana) - Kathleen Bayes, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Coming to a neighborhood near you (California) - editorial, Orange County Register
• Preventing the Ministry of Justice causing injustice (UK) - David Pannick, Times Online
• Don't let Utah's jails evolve into discount motel (Utah) - Jay Evenson, Deseret News
• State panel says drug courts work (New Jersey) - Lawrence Aaron, NorthJersey.com
• Hearing for AB 1539 - Sick and Dying Prisoners Needs a Crowd (California) - B. Cayenne Bird, American Chronicle
• America should believe in a second chance (Louisiana) - Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), Louisiana Weekly

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News: 5/6/2007 (Weekend)

• Former TYC official faced allegations of misconduct years earlier (Texas)
• Judge Denies Health Plan for Inmates (Michigan)
• Jury Awards Family Of Dead Inmate $2.75 Million (Michigan)
• County jails seen as dangerously crowded (Massachusetts)
• Ways and Means approves emergency prison funding (Nevada)
• Mentally ill filling the jails (New Hampshire)
• Wyoming struggles with understaffed prison
• E. Idaho women inmates disciplined for drug plot
• I know what ails jails, says CM (India)
• Portfolio committee to visit West Cape prisons (South Africa)
• Britain mulls early release for prisoners
• Falconer denies reports of early release for thousands of prisoners (UK)
• TT prisons in bad state (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Bihar’s old, ailing jailbirds to be set free (India)
• BuCor sends more security men to Davao penal farm (Phillipines)
• Jail inmates to perform Tagore’s Tasher Desh (India)
• Corrections officials eye new location for proposed prison (Virginia)
• Idaho Prison Workers Recognized

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News: 5/3/2007 (PM)

• Arizona Corrections Dept. reveals New Castle findings (Indiana)
• Governor Seeks Solution to Overcrowded Prisons (Nevada)
• Schwarzenegger signs bill to relieve prison crowding (California)
• State to release 2000 fewer prisoners than planned (Michigan)
• Prisons busting out in Delaware
• NIC: Jail conditions ‘awful' (Wisconsin)
• Inmate hangs himself in jail (New York)
• 12000 foreigners in UK jails
• Restorative justice schemes backed (UK)
• Legal Aids Council saves two prison inmates (Nigeria)
• Raising the bar for inmates (Massachusetts)

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News: 5/3/2007 (AM)

• Two federal judges hold key to California prison reform (California)
• Referee to make recommendation on inmate case (Oklahoma)
• Prison officer charged with murdering inmate (Guyana)
• £1M-A-DAY JAILS SCANDAL (UK)
• Inquest into boy's suicide hears of overcrowding at secure unit (UK)
• Drugs in prison on the increase (UK)
• Campaigners optimistic over plans for women in prison (UK)
• McDowell addresses Prison Officers conference in Sligo (Ireland)
• Nigeria: Legal Aid Boss Decries Prison Congestion
• Inmates on hunger in Gobustan jail can be held accountable (Azerbaijan)
• Juvenile facility runs out of room (Wyoming)
• Counties board 46 state prison system inmates (Maine)
• SAFETY IN PRISONS (New Jersey)
• Prison health committee bill heads to House (Maryland)
• Mendota to get $115m to finish federal prison (California)
• Prison program makes good on training dogs for adoption (Colorado)
• Corrections Corporation of America Announces 2007 First Quarter Financial Results
• Prison will need help with funding (Mississippi)

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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: 4/28/2007 (Weekend)

• Inmates Sent To Other Prisons After Riot (Indiana)
• Prisons to stop accepting inmates soon (Oklahoma)
• Details of the prison reform plan approved by lawmakers (California)
• Corrections officer faces drug charge (Vermont)
• Activists fight jails' solitary cell rules (Florida)
• Corrections Officer Disciplined After Letting Wrong Man out of Jail (Illinois)
• County renews re-entry efforts (Pennsylvania)
• Survivors (not victims) of crime share struggles at special forum (Canada)
• Lack of funding blamed for prison shortfall (UK)
• Prison authorities discover cocaine in prison (Ghana)
• Rohee outlines areas for improvement at Mazaruni Prisons (Guyana)
• Jail inmates can now study to become Degree holder (India)
• Internet voice for inmates (Australia)
• Tax fraud rife in jails (Australia)
• Bill would reduce jail crush (Colorado)
• Yalies join national movement to pass Books through Bars (Connecticut)

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