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: 5/23/2007

• 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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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: 5/7/2007 (AM)

• Our Violent Youth Prisons (California) - Part 1
• Escaped inmates back in custody (North Carolina)
• MOVING NJ'S SEX OFFENDERS: Go someplace else
• Runner Supports Bill for More Prison Beds (California)
• 'Culture change' in works at prisons (Utah)
• Saudi Arabia pardons up to 11000 prisoners
• Two SF County jail lawsuits settled (New Mexico)
• Corrections Corp of America "overweight," target price raised
• Reforms steer some people into prison, jail (Wisconsin)
• Drug program works for state, offenders (Indiana)
• Prison won't be done for 3 years (US Federal)
• Inmates prosper, learn in prison industry (Oklahoma)
• Veterans program may lose funding (Kentucky)
• Mentally ill and homeless: City officers on front line call it societal problem (New Hanpshire)

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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: 5/2/2007 (AM)

• A plea for help for Coalinga prison (California)
• Inmate who had seizures dies in lockup (Illinois)
• Short notice triggered riot (Indiana)
• Bill to alleviate local jail overcrowding clears House (Texas)
• State drops surgeon used for lethal injection (Missouri)
• Wanted: Indispensable, Disposable Workers (Colorado)
• Teen sex offender bill goes to governor’s desk (Arizona)
• Sweeney says sex offenders are coming to South Woods (New Jersey)
• Board named to consider sex offender residency in Green Bay (Wisconsin)
• Jails awash with drugs, says Opposition (Australia)
• Guards back in jail (Canada)
• McDowell orders inquiry into prisoner's call to radio show (Ireland)
• Women's prison will get day in court (Canada)
• Package lobbed over wall ignited jailhouse melee (Canada)
• Prisoners Could Get More Credit for Good Behavior (Kansas)
• Guards armed with new riot gear (Pennsylvania)
• Jail expansion still top council priority (South Carolina)
• Prison closer to getting water (Mississippi)
• Sing Sing, dance, dance (New York)

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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: 4/23/2007 (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: 4/19/07 (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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Opinion: 4/16/2007

• Death no more: It's time to end capital punishment (Texas) - editorial, Dallas Morning News
• A death penalty slowdown, but not in Texas (Texas) - editorial, Dallas Morning News
• Capital punishment should continue (Texas) - Mike Hashimoto, Dallas Morning News
• A Thrill Killing Ten Years Later (New Jersey) - Ben Barlyn, Corrections Sentencing
• Supreme Court Preview: The Death Penalty in Texas - analysis from Ana M. Otero, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University on ACS Blog
• Make way for the prison inmates (California) Todd Spitzer, Orange County Register

Tip o' the hat to Grits for Breakfast and Sentencing Law and Policy for some of the links above.

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News: 4/13/2007 (PM)

• State builds new death chamber: Lawmakers accuse governor of hiding San Quentin Project (California)
• Judges given leeway to assess mental function (California)
• Denying bail to illegal immigrants could strain jails (Arizona)
• California settles First Amendment lawsuit with Prison Legal News
• Gregg County Jailer Faces Possessing Prohibited Substances Charge (Texas)
• Corrections officer charged with giving inmate a hand cuff key (New Jersey)
• NWFP govt asked to implement Borstal Act (Pakistan)
• The Weaknesses of Inmates' Rehabilitation System (Botswana)
• Judge won't bite on inmates' mosquito lawsuit (Colorado)

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News: 4/4/2007

• 9 tied to prison gang are charged in crimes (Texas)
• Privately run prison had problems before escape (Ohio)
• Measure would qualify about 1,600 Nevada prisoners for release
• State corrections official tours crammed CIM (California)
• Safford Complex, other Arizona prisons, 'overflowing' (Arizona)
• Crowding puts pressure on prison staff (Maine)
• More Female Prisoners Taxing Local Prisons (Michigan)
• Peterborough Prison is two, and growing up fast (UK)
• Miami judge to study mental health (Florida)
• Judge ends oversight of Jackson County jail (Missouri)
• Campbell County's jail expansion almost complete (Kentucky)
• Cooling equipment ordered for Jackson-area prisons (Michigan)
• New corrections officers graduate from academy (New Jersey)
• Levin: Prisons don't hold solution to drug problems (Texas) - editorial

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