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: 5/15/2007

• State proposes new lethal injection procedures (California)
• Medical Contracting Company Loses Suit In Death Of Inmate (Florida)
• Youth prisons targeted (California)
• Sex scandal between deputies, prisoners prompted review (Utah)
• Overcrowding impedes prison health care reforms, receiver says (California)
• Prison population holding around 98% (Oklahoma)
• 'Purgatory' well-managed, audit finds (Utah)
• Responding to ACLU Demands, California Prisons Allow Same-Sex Access to Family Visitation
• Kept in the dark (India)
• CCA finishing 3rd prison in Eloy (Arizona)
• Victim Notification System in Indiana
• Group looking for new uses for closed prison (Ohio)
• New state program aims at slowing prison system's revolving door (Arizona)
• Corrections officials to accept bid for state prison land (Alabama)

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News: 5/11/2007 (PM)

• Schwarzenegger names experts to begin $7.8 billion prison reform (California)
• Warrant Issued For Woman In Connection With Inmate's Escape (New Hampshire)
• Jury: Sheriff, County Not Liable In Inmate's Death (Arizona)
• Shareholder proposal on CCA political donation disclosure fails
• New jail to be built next to existing one: minister (Canada)
• Cameroon: Our Prisons Should Be Reformatory Centres
• Program gives horses, inmates second chance (Indiana)
• Show-and-tell at the jail (Wisconsin)
• Prison dental hygiene (Texas)
• Exclusive Interview with a Corrections Officer at a Jail Similarto one that Paris Hilton will be in (part 2) (California)

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Opinion: 5/11/2007

• Taking care of our own (California) - editorial, San Francisco Chronicle
• Curb HIV infection rates in Texas prisons - Joe Amon and Megan McLemore, Human Rights Watch, Austin American-Statesman
• What the US can learn from others (China) - editorial, People's Daily Online
• Juvenile Injustice (New York) - editorial, New York Times

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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: 5/4/2007 (AM)

• High court stays scheduled Tuesday execution of Moore (Nebraska)
• Alabama inmate executed
• Cornell Companies (CRN) Announces Contract Award From Arizona Department of Corrections
• Gem County jailers head to District Court (Idaho)
• ICC will stop offering classes to two prisons (Illinois)
• Haiti: Prison Reform and the Rule of Law
• Watchdog criticizes ailing jails (Greece)
• Prisons Officers send SOS (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Rare illness drove tab to $5.1 million (Ohio)
• OC patients to get free surgeries (California)
• Prison bill moves to next House vote (Colorado)
• Small-time recidivists, big costs (North Carolina)
• Charleston facility ready to take more inmates (Maine)
• Measure would affect prison stays (Oregon)
• Sheriff Reverses ICE Opposition (Virginia)
• Jail chief out; sheriff finds replacement (Washington)

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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: 4/26/2007 (PM)

• $7 Billion Bill Approved to Help Ease Overcrowded State Prisons (California)
• 500 Inmates Involved In Riot At New Castle Prison (Indiana)
• Inmate's death blamed on Dade jailers' neglect (Florida)
• Mass arraignment is working (South Carolina)

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News: 4/26/20007 (AM)

• Deal reached for 53K more prison beds (California)
• Lawsuits drive prison operations in California
• Company Must Reimburse Indiana for Riot Costs
• Prison riot erupts (Indiana)
• DOC officials sent to Indiana to help with riot investigation (Arizona)
• Drug courts, stronger probation clears Texas House
• Bill to close youth prisons gaining attention, criticism (California)
• South Woods State Prison investigates employee activities (New Jersey)
• National claims 'culture of denial' in prisons (New Zealand)
• Suicide 'simple' in SA jails (Australia)
• Superbugs hit prisons (Canada)
• Prison Watchdog Unlikely to be Effective (UK)
• Crime figures show need to focus on what works (UK)
• 3 indictments issued in prison smuggling case (Oregon)
• Woman guilty of posing as lawyer to enter prison (Maryland)
• Lawmakers delay prison construction, Hoeven goes along (North Dakota)
• Miami Correctional Facility honored (Indiana)

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News: 4/25/2007

• Inmate imports suspended by New Castle riot (Indiana)
• Bill to close youth prisons passes committee (California)
• High Court Tosses 3 Death Sentences (Texas)
• Convicted killer of Amarillo couple set to die Thursday (Texas)
• TYC corrections officer arrested on sex charge (Texas)
• No election on possible private prison in Adams Co. (Missouri)
• Vermont prison overhaul proposed
• ACLU asks judge to end LA jail overcrowding (California)
• Crowding brings county jails to a boil (California)
• Young people remanded to adult prisons as Feltham pressures rise (UK)
• Prison guard fights second assault charge (New Zealand)
• Corrections Canada considers halfway house bid
• Sedgwick Co. officials find jail food revolting (Kansas)
• Funding tight at jail (Colorado)
• Downtown jail nixed (Minnesota)
• Local group tours Wapello Co. jail (Indiana)
• This Prison Dentist Yanked More Than a Molar (Washington)

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News: 4/23/2007 (PM)

• For LA AIDS group prison health is public health (California)
• Diversions Continue Steady Advance (Texas)
• 2 courts deny Ohio killer's request to delay execution
• Bruning will not intervene in execution (Nebraska)
• Mental hospitals vie with prisons for medical staffs (California)
• Where should sex offenders live? (Florida)
• Ex-State Prisons Chief To Be Sentenced For Taking Kickbacks (Florida)
• Former Prisoners Challenge the Legacy of Torture in Chicago Jails (Illinois)
• Prisoner 'segregation' misunderstood - O'Connor (New Zealand)
• Inmates still getting cell phones (New Zealand)
• 2835 Pakistanis in Saudi jails, NA told
• Crime Victims Honored at Ceremony at Capitol (Arizona)
• Officials searching for missing ACI inmate (Rhode Island)
• Good guidelines in the works from the USSC (US Federal)
• South Idaho commissioners consider jail options

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News: 4/23/2007 (AM)

• Prisons benefit from tough advocate (California)
• Massachussetts to review its prison system after at least 14 inmates confined in error
• Race riot at honor farm; 25 are hurt (California)
• Community awaits justice (Florida)
• Minister: New report clears Corrections over van bashing (New Zealand)
• Mysterious Deaths Mount in High Security Prison (Azerbaijan)
• EDS Helps Her Majesty's Prison Service with offender assessment system (UK)
• Corrections overtime costs rising (New Zealand)
• Dozens of inmates struck by stomach bug (New Zealand)
• Texas COs to Lege: Don't Build New Prisons
• Corrections Committee considers progressive sanctions (Texas)
• Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Getting Another Look (Oklahoma)
• Correcting Corrections: Part 1, Part 2 (Colorado)
• Corrections chief wants to discuss jail with Hinds (Mississippi)
• Most voters favor new prisons (Nevada)
• 5 Camco Jail guards criticize residency policy (New Jersey)

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News: 4/5/2007 (1)

• Two LA men plead guilty in Oregon prison food case
• Police seek ex-TYC guard accused of having sex with youth (Texas)
• ACLU, corrections officials may settle complaint (Mississippi)
• Company says it was threatened by California prison receiver
• Prison Guards Cool On State's Contract Offer (California)
• Ely State Prison doc was fired because he wouldn't quit outside hospital work (Nevada)
• Giving vote to Florida's ex-felons no guarantee for Democrats
• Program encouraging prisoner organ donation approved (South Carolina)
• State review: Jail no better (Texas)
• Iowa prisons need $180M in improvements — consultants say
• State begging for corrections workers (Washington)

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