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: 5/10/2007 (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: 5/6/2007 (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: 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: 4/18/2007 (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 (AM)

• Some skeptical of removing misdemeanors from TYC purview (Texas)
• Prison experts meet with lawmakers today in effort to control growth (Nevada)
• US probing County Jail Medical care, use of force reviewed (Illinois)
• Butler County Jail must address suicide, mentally ill (Ohio)
• Ex-chief justice home office fear (UK)
• Prison defends under fire staff (UK)
• Reaction to Krugersdorp gang violence incident (South Africa)
• RSA attack survivor asks for right to sue Corrections (New Zealand)
• Ukrainian Greek Catholics Officially Cooperate with State in Prison Ministry
• Iran’s notorious prison gets new chief
• Hinds: Over 2000 prisons posts coming (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Prison dealing with sewer leak (Nevada)

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News: 4/16/2007 (PM)

• House Bill Would Permit Fewer Inmates At TYC Facilities (Texas)
• Prison Escapee on The Run in Reno and Sparks Area (Nevada)
• Prison guard convicted of smuggling phone to inmate (Georgia)
• Prison employee charged with having sex with inmate (Alabama)
• Warders appear for Krugersdorp inmate deaths (South Africa)
• Rainer warns it could drop backing for Offender Management Bill (UK)
• Ministers plan to let private prisons discipline inmates (UK)
• Telephones in Bangalore Central Jail (India)
• Criminal class (UK)
• Prison considers polygraph tests for new hires (Pennsylvania)
• Hale County residents oppose DOC land sale, call it a 'sham' (Alabama)

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News: 4/15/2007 (Weekend)

• Accusers Recant, but Hopes Still Fade in Sing Sing (New York) registration required
• Woman Held Despite Release Order, Dies (Missouri)
• In the South Bronx, Unlikely Allies Fight a Proposed Jail (New York) registration required
• Solutions sought for sex offenders living under bridge (Florida)
• Bill to Allow Early Release of Nevada Inmates Doomed by Amendment (Nevada)
• Texas prison guard shortage raises alarm
• Crowded prisons spawn debates over reforms, housing options (Oklahoma)
• Prison plan recommends new classification system (Iowa)
• Last of Wyoming's women inmates back in state (Wyoming)
• Maine eyes out-of-state prison (Maine)
• G'bad prison turns into battlefield (India)
• No Need To Isolate Hep B Inmate: Hepatitis Foundation (New Zealand)
• Overcrowding crisis to rock Ulster prisons as sex beasts lose remission (UK)
• Ghanaian Prisons now 'Crime factories'
• New South Wales blames prison population on tougher laws, longer sentences (Australia)
• Jail rocks for high-profile inmates (India)
• Driving is ex-inmates' key to jobs (Wisconsin)
• Inmates' menu critique: Too light, send it back (Georgia)

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News: 4/13/2007 (AM)

• Prison plan takes a beating (California) - registration required
• Bronx Protests Against Proposed Jail (New York)
• Brooklyn House of Detention Could be Much Bigger (New York)
• Oregon bill would limit early release program
• Committee passes bill speeding inmate paroles (Nevada)
• Police hunt arsonist let out of prison by accident (UK)
• Corrections Officer Dismissed (New Zealand)
• Youth prison getting better, says report (UK)
• PIL seeks facilities for male prisoners (India)
• Corrections board to take up draft prison recommendations (Iowa)
• Disenfranchisement News - 4/12/2007
• Oshkosh begins researching sex offender ordinance (Wisconsin)
• "Prison City" reflects on Death Penalty (Texas) - new book
• Surviving family violence (Texas)

Hat tip to Corrections Connection on a couple of these stories.

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News: 4/6/2007

• Mother Sues Youth Detention Center For Son's Suicide (Illinois)
• TYC Roundup (Texas)
• Talks over prison conditions resume in June (Mississippi)
• Prison doc arraigned in Brooklyn court (New York)
• Lingle plans to spend $2.6 million repairing prisons (Hawaii)
• Young offenders turn criminals in Lebanon prisons
• Jail security winning war (Australia)
• Washington state prisoner receives liver transplant
• Dorothy Nash Holmes Resigns From Department of Corrections (Nevada)

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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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