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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