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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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: 5/4/2007 (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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Opinion: 4/23/2007

• Solution to inmate overcrowding is more prisons, not fewer prisoners (California) - Assemblyman Tom Berryhill, Modesto Bee
• Sex offender e-mail rule would waste police time (California) - editorial, San Jose Mercury News
• A Technocorrections Fable (Virginia) - Michael Connelly, Corrections Sentencing

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News: 4/21/2007 (Weekend)

• Gov. halts work on new death chamber (California)
• Private prisons not on the table: Day (Canada)
• Inmates set to be shackled (New Zealand)
• Tattoo a badge for gangs (Canada)
• Prerelease center celebrates opening of new wing (Montana)
• Pasco to move inmates to other jails (Florida)
• Ex-BMHI building eyed for inmates (Maine)
• Ionia's oldest prison to reopen (Michigan)
• Counselors, new contractor in talks (Illinois)
• Senate approves changes for inmate rehabilitation (Washington)
• July 1 tobacco ban at state prisons delayed (West Virginia)
• State Auditor Report: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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