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March 31

For 22 years in jail, panel offers $200,000

Three correctional officers face inmate abuse charges

Bring back prisoner education

Indian prisoners in Mauritius on hunger strike

Prisons Commander Decries Overcrowding

Inmates May Get Early Release

Jailer suspended after alleged misconduct with three inmates

Program to put inmates to work


March 30

Faith helps set ex-inmate free

Recycling center will keep using inmate labor

$1.27 million tab for comatose inmates

County prison hosts more than 1,000 inmates

Foreign inmates' rights again are before high court

10 years on, Holloway is still failing inmates

Lawmaker calls for longer prison sentences for sex offenders

Prisoner searches under scrutiny

Prisoner Abuse


March 29

S.C. Prisons Director Fears Loss of Programs

And justice for all

Death row proposal ready for governor

State Virtually Eliminates Overtime Pay For Texas Prison Guards

Delaware Takes Cautious Approach on HIV-Positive Prison Autopsies

State Prison Reform Turns to Rehab

C-Murder Punished for Cheeky Prison Video

Death Row inmates magnets for women

Budget plan would end work program for inmates at park

Inmates pick up hammer for Habitat

Prisons combat contraband cellular phones

Welsh prisons 'ripe for picking'

County jail limit set: 71 prisoners

Trial set for jailer accused of assaulting prisoners

Unraveling the yarn

Sweden rethinks approach to prison

Parole violations landing more inmates back in jail

After serving time, they serve a need

Reading program strives to give inmates' kids better shot at life

Few blocks to prisoners calling mates on mobiles


March 28

Officials Argue Over Sex in Prisons

Former inmate says he was beaten

Artist and prisoner

State struggles to employ inmates

Reading program strives to give inmates' kids better shot at life

Church members to visit prisoners


March 25

No time for innocence

Undisclosed evidence may free man from death row

Penis problem earns inmate his freedom

High court weighs prisoners' religious rights


March 24

Prison guard drawn federal time for drug dealing

At peace, a prisoner endures

Prisoners' art dispels common stereotypes

Educators plan forum on book, inmates


March 23

Bishops Fight Death Penalty in New Drive

Supreme Court weighs religious liberty law’s impact on prisons

Court hears prison-religion case

Argentine ex-prisoner leads torture chamber tours

Prison board probes hazing of inmates at Somerset jail

Inmates' Deaths Prompt Warning from Health Officials


March 22

Diagnosis: State-Sanctioned Murder

High court to weigh prisoners' religious rights: 2000 law also prohibits communities from zoning out houses of worship

Pakistani prisoners get remissions

Corrections worker accused of sex with teen inmate surrenders


March 21

LifeLine program helps inmates get lives back on the right track

Good time credit for inmates gets nod from judiciary panel

Inmate, representing self, wins case Not guilty verdict in spitting incident called ridiculous, horrendous, upsetting

Rape victim forgives attacker, wishes him well in prison

China frees high-profile political prisoner

A peasant activist jailed in Mexico on murder charges is the latest environmentalist being called a prisoner of conscience by international rights groups


March 18

'An encroachment on our courts'

China frees prisoner Kadeer before visit by Rice

Answers sought after prison siege

Indonesia to restore rights of former political prisoners

Kamms' address prisoners' rights

Former inmates claim they were beaten


March 17

Build drug treatment, not prisons

Nonviolent convicts fill state prisons

Ministers in contempt of court over inmate's mail

Mandela today launched a research centre

Show to chronicle inmate's fight for life

Inmate dads reach out


March 16

Why Prisons Can't Integrate

Committee on women, children visit prisons

Judge OKs Indian inmates, religion plan

Basque Political Prisoners Association begins indefinite hunger strike

17 prisoners shot dead

21 prisoners killed in jail assault

Pak releases 589 Indian prisoners


March 15

Give us your help - Prisons

Build drug treatment, not prisons

IPC meets families of children prisoners in Israeli jail

One of Burma's most celeberated journalists turned 75 today and this is his 16 th birthday in prison

In prison, trader seeks salvation


March 14

End of prisons selling services could erode vocational programs

Inmate dads reach out

Mistreatment of Muslim inmates cited

County inmates might go to work

College program teaches inmates building trades

Plans ready for inmates to go into community service

Prison inmate to defend himself in rape trial

In prison, trader seeks salvation

Indian inmates sleep in shifts

Sheriffs ask inmates to pay health care

Myanmar’s most prominent prisoner of conscience after Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi turned 75 Saturday

A Los Angeles senator said state prison staff has to change the way it does business with inmates’ families

L.A. inmates to be questioned on immigration status

Inmate's family and friends claim he was assaulted by prison officers, stage protest outside the prison


March 12

Director of Prisons, Others in Embezzlement Syndicate

Why prisons can't integrate

Body of prisoner to be exhumed

Self-Published Author Featured on National PBS ShowFormer Iraqi Prisoner gives insight into Saddam’s hellish prisons


March 11

Why Is Alan Yurko Still in Jail?

State should provide mental health services in prisons, VSEA says

Fate of South African death row prisoners to be decided

EU calls for the release of Cuban political prisoners

Maha to release women prisoners over 60 yrs age


March 10

Prison inmates stage protest

Inmates making strides in decor industry

Legal history made in prisoner claims

Ethnic prisoners 'suffered abuse'

Time to end recidivism

Eritrean journalist released from prison


March 9

Inmates Volunteer To Help Iditarod; Provide Care for Dropped Dogs

Inmates File Lawsuit Against County for Jail Conditions

New prison's focus on rehabilitation

Editorial: Martha Stewart could aid cause of prison reform

Death row inmate found wrongly convicted

Angola inmate cleared by DNA evidence

Air Force hires 90 to replace inmate workers


March 8

State owes the innocent their freedom

Inmate Artists: Art project inspires on both sides of prison walls

Lawsuits attack isolated prison conditions for mentally ill

PA man reaches out to prisoners

Attitude to mentally ill inmates ‘inhumane’


March 5

It's time to kill this penalty

N.C. prosecutors stifled evidence

Haunted, Gell moves on

Theater project helps inmates grow socially, emotionally, intellectually

Hawaii Inmates To Remain In Colorado Prison

Too many inmates: Cut inmate population by not holding so many

Dallas County Jail Receives Failing Grade

Prison 'gladiator' claim denied

Controversy over prisoner voting plans

Supermax to get death row?

State warns prisons about selling inmate products

Prisoners' bodily fluids a health hazard: police union

New Bid to Back Prisoners' Children

Prison inmates donate to help pay for crash youth's funeral

Plan would shift inmates

Dallas County jail gets failing grade

Full text of Human Rights Record of the US in 2004

Prisoners turn to their humourous side!

Fuming Prisoners Stage Protest

Protesters decry probationer curfew

State is faulted on female inmate care

Private Prisons Could Cut Georgia's Spending, Studies Suggest


March 4

Inmates Volunteer Time in Exchange for Home-cooked Meal

Jailers suspended after inmate allegation

An Asian prisoner was killed by his racist cellmate because guards were playing a game of " gladiator", an inquiry heard today

Death row inmate's mother calls ruling a blessing from God

Special needs of jailed mothers are neglected

Study: Prison moms need help


March 3

29 Inmates No Longer On Death Row Following U.S. Supreme Court Ruling

Prisoners Celebrate Results

California lawmaker calls for condoms in prisons

Sex offenders remain at open jail

8 Fayette inmates no longer face possibility of death penalty


March 2

Prisoners made hole in cell wall to produce third inmate

Inmate-care company says errors preceded death in Metro Jail

Prisons a Weak Link in Justice Chain

Racial segregation impermissible in prisons, High Court rules

Overflowing prisons need action

A look at some of the inmates affected by the decision

Inmates unveil their artistic side in jail art contest


March 1

State Pen Tries to Accommodate Disabled Prisoners

How to Reduce Racial Disparity in Prisons

Prisons now mental homes

More protection for mentally ill inmates

Ex-jail officer sentenced to time in Women's Prison

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