March 2003

News You Can Use — Archive

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Ministry plans new law to stop prison abuse
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030331a6.htm

Prison Phone Disputes at a Glance
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-prison-phones-glance,0,2142405.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

Inmates, Prisons Feud Over Phone Bills
http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V9795.AP-Prison-Phones.html

Push for prison sex crime therapy
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6205592%255E421,00.html

A prison cell is a private place
http://uk.gay.com/headlines/4048

Prison visit policy questioned
http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2003/03/27/news/news05.txt

Supreme Court Hears Prison Rights Case
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5486963.htm

Health Care, Prison Funding Approved
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0303/80338.html

Right to lawyer still not a given for poor defendants
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/0303/24gideon.html

Conjugal visits among several Kenyan prison reforms
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10491802.htm

Prison Sentences To Get Shorter During Lean Budget Year
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=1186577&nav=0RZFEfMX

Prison service concerned over detention of children in jails
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sg-WIIk0LjBO2sgadLjt5C321I.asp

Board Says Cuts Could Increase Prison Population
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/2050039/detail.html

Measure to curb prison crowding goes to House
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=1000550&pic=none&TP=getarticle

Lead prison warden placed on leave during probe
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1179328

Gov't pledges probe into prison deaths
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030314p2a00m0dm004000c.html

Groups prefer treatment over prison for pregnant women who use drugs
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1177312&nav=0RaPEXyg

Carrot-and-stick drug treatment works better than prison, study finds
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3747894.html

RCC to provide literacy, occupational courses at Scotland prison
http://www.laurinburgexchange.com/cgi-local/top?section=localnews&story=031203rccboard

Inmates may be barred from seeking pen pals
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5362591.htm

Reducing prison costs, populations may mean moving inmates to halfway houses
http://www.mlive.com/news/statewide/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news-1/1047078615175860.xml

Drug offender turns top scorer in prison school
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,176081,00.html

Gov. Bob Riley spent Friday afternoon in prison, getting a firsthand look at one of the biggest financial problems facing his new administration.
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030307&Category=APN&ArtNo=303071081&Ref=AR

Many States Rethinking Lock-Up Policies for Criminals
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03072003/nation_w/36002.asp

Inmates Say State Hasn’t Changed Conditions At Supermax Prison
http://www.onnnews.com/story.php?record=22546

Prosecutors Attack Death Row Clemencies
They call some inmates ineligible
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1042568673222&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0

Kansas Considers Treatment, Not Prison, for Drug Offender
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,561958,00.html

Some see treatment as alternative to prison
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/030302rehab_sidebar_8a.html

Inmates of multi-million dollar prison to have room with a view
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2300225a11,00.html

Lawyers for two men awaiting a capital trial in the Southern District of New York are trying to persuade a judge that there is more than one reason to declare the Federal Death Penalty Act unconstitutional.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1046327709790

Kanu blocked prison reforms, says commissioner
http://www.eastandard.net/headlines/news28022003012.htm

Is the Price of Justice Worth the Cost of Alabama's Death Row?
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1135754&nav=1VPtEGOw

Kenya: Feature - Prison Reforms Spark Hope for Human Rights
http://allafrica.com/stories/200302260231.html

At Lorton, the Arts Transform a Prison
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8487-2003Feb26.html

More than 200 prison inmates will be released early beginning next week under a new law that eliminates Michigan's tough drug-sentencing law.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/det/news/stories/news-200647020030226-150229.html

Prison proves no bar to debates
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030227&Category=NEWS21&ArtNo=102270128&Ref=AR

Prison kitchens are understaffed
http://www.pjstar.com/news/regional/g148284a.html

Prison Board discusses health care at prison
http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7169674&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6

Tools for Success After Prison Listed
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=348&NewsID=432770&CategoryID=7227&show=localnews&om=1

Prison guards welcome proposal for stricter regime
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=%7BD988D6D6-B044-4752-B997-8D302DDFC473%7D

Another call for prison reform
http://www.thesudburystar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=23729&catname=Editorial

It’s prison, not playland
http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=23719&catname=Editorials

Plans for $13M prison mothballed
http://www.djc.com/news/co/11142300.html

Improved security at women's Max
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/02/25/31800-cp.html

How prison dads are learning to be better fathers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,898324,00.html

Princeton Students Face Inmates in Chess
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2003/02/24/news/7412.shtml
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=NJ%20Prison%20Chess
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/22/nyregion/22CHES.html?ex=1046581200&en=1b028fc54593e044&ei=5062
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-nj-prison-chess0223feb22,0,1905250.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V1366.AP-NJ-Prison-Chess.html

In Texas, there are more people in prison than any other state, according to the Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, and Monday members of that group are calling for a change.
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1147342
Prison term shaped Tyson opponent
Etienne learned to box while serving 10 years for armed robbery
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/topstories/stories/022203dnspoetienne_.a2422.html

Faith-based prison program challenged in court
Should the state of Iowa continue funding a prison rehabilitation program that gives special benefits to inmates who agree to study a conversion-based Christian curriculum?
http://www.baptiststandard.com/2003/2_24/pages/prison.html

Riley gives court plan to defuse Tutwiler
Gov. Bob Riley promised a federal judge Friday that Alabama will eliminate crowding at Tutwiler Prison for Women, mostly by paroling nonviolent inmates and by shipping other inmates to private prisons.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1045908969309190.xml

Prison reform coalition
On Saturday, Jan. 11, Pastor Dorsey Blake of All Peoples Fellowship Church met with church members and several prison advocacy groups - Never Forget Prison Ministry, California Prison Focus and Critical Resistance - for a roundtable discussion on how to improve California’s prison system.
http://www.sfbayview.com/012903/prisonreform012903.shtml

Blueprint for reform
The highly anticipated Prison Reform Commission report, which took four months to compile, was presented to Prime Minister Perry Christie and Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia Pratt, at Cabinet Office on Monday.
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/national_local/879375482722.php

If confirmed, corrections director faces tough time
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/5169963.htm

Jail House Shock
Ashfield Young Offenders' Institution is set to be virtually emptied after the body responsible for juvenile prisoners said it is transferring 172 of them out of the jail.
http://www.thisisbristol.com/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=86419&command=displayContent&sourceNode=86416&contentPK=4024596

Investigators take probe inside jail walls
Trouble: Inmates refuse breakfast in short-lived hunger strike.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/sections/archive/topstoryjmp/2-22-03/News4.htm

1 less day in jail could save man from deportation
Judge Chastises Prosecutors Who Insist On Sentence. Usually, 12 months equals one year, but in the eyes of state law, there's a difference: As a jail sentence, the former means the crime was a misdemeanor, while the latter means it was a felony.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/local/5238282.htm

Pike residents get reminders of obligations to incarceration costs
County may consider garnishing wages, seizing assets to enforce. The pay-for-stay policy was implemented in November. Under it, the county charges prisoners for their housing and medical costs in an attempt to recoup and reduce prisoner-related expenses.
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/news/stories/20030207/localnews/938542.html

Kansas Bill Favors Treatment over Incarceration
A new bill proposed in the Kansas legislature would place nonviolent drug offenders in drug-treatment programs instead of prison.
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,556555,00.html

Grant helps prisoners adopt healthier lifestyle after incarceration
http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/february/m021203i.htm

Cal. filmmaker decries privatization of prisons
While the mantra, "Get tough on crime" can help politicians win elections, the reality of such practices are a different story, according to Ashley Hunt, an independent filmmaker.
http://www.townonline.com/westford/news/local_regional/we_newweprisons02202003.htm

Officials face reprimand over prison abuse scandal
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030221wo25.htm
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030220b3.htm
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=9&id=250050

 Man freed after 14 years in prison to receive $475,000
Prison Overcrowding
http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/228066.html
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=1143222&nav=0RdEE8bL
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1045736141258500.xml
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StoryAlabamaprisons20w2.htm

 Cuts would 'dismantle' prison system
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1788105

 Judge: State wrongly denied barber's license to inmate
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--unkindestcut0220feb20,0,4695780.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

 State Budget Crunch Not Helping Prison Overpopulation
http://home.abc28.com/Global/story.asp?S=1142384

 Several measures aimed at improving the situation in Tunisian detention facilities were taken by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after receiving a report on prison conditions from the special investigative team headed by the president of the higher committee on human rights and basic freedoms.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200302190210.html

 Texas prisons could reach their operating capacity within a few days, officials said Tuesday, prompting the state to consider shortening drug treatment programs and renting beds in county jails to free up more space.
http://www.click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-199034220030219-090247.html

 Prison panel seeks members  Two Calaveras County residents will be appointed to a committee that acts as a liaison between the public and administrators at Sierra Conservation Center.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=9995

 Prison Blues  "WHETHER CONGRESS may ban electric guitars from federal prisons might seem an unimportant -- even trivial -- question," writes Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Well, yes. But sometimes a case's triviality masks the importance of the principle it considers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27743-2003Feb18.html

 Former N.C. prison guard sentenced for murder solicitation
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030219&Category=APN&ArtNo=302190950&Ref=AR

 Prison debate rages on in Haywood 
http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/02_03/02_19_03/fr_prison_rages.html

 Inmate's drug overdose could force changes in state's prisons
http://www.kaaltv.com/article/view/7289/
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_050102949.html
http://www.kstp.com/article/view/82594/
http://www.kstp.com/article/view/82663/

 The youth justice board (YJB) has pledged to remove all girls under 17 years old from prisons in England and Wales by the end of the year.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,898085,00.html