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April 29

Prisoner of Conscience

Apology for Racist Prison Murder Now 'Virtually Worthless' - Family

Protesting inmates set fire, flood toilets, break TV

American Consultants Visit Inmates, Wants Commitment to HIV/Aids, Food Production


April 28

State gets grant for substance abuse treatment for inmates

Hunger-Striking Inmate Gets IV

Inmate work program aims to ease prison overcrowding

Vietnam to release prisoners to mark war anniversary

Women prisoners denied health care

Viet Nam: Release all prisoners of conscience immediately


April 27

Prisoner's Right to Vote Appeal to Be Heard

Assembly OKs Schwarzenegger's Prison Plan


April 26

A monstrous injustice

Curb the violence in juvenile prisons

Racine prison inmates stage 'King Lear'

Male inmates in prisons get counselling from female wardens

Corrections officer accused of sexual contact with inmates

Prison expands skill training for inmates

Numerous inmates' sentences overturned after high court ruling on prison terms

Unused state prisons cost $2 mil. in '04

5 Years for Passing a Joint: Stop this Bill Now


April 22

Investigate claims of prison abuse

Inmates in China's prisons get counseling from female warders

Prisons plagued by financial woes

Meth a Toothache for Prisons

Keep drug tests in our prisons

Prisons do not work: report

Justice Department official calls for strict prison sex-abuse laws

Corrections Officers Arrested After Inmate Says They Used Excessive Force

Jamaican inmates to benefit from computer training

More inmates plan to sue over slopping out

Style behind bars: Cosmetology classes offer inmates options

Bill wouldn't allow parole to depend on treatment


April 21

Drawing gives inmates outlet, career hopes

Former Warden Says Prisons Need Reform

Congress Addresses Issue of Inmate Rape, Prison Sex


April 20

Inmates sue prisons over lack of toilets

Poet-prisoner

Wardens, Inmates Describe Culture of Violence in Nation's Prisons

Panel Opens Hearings on Prison Violence


April 19

State Prison Inmates Help to Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful

Inmates confirm their faith

Inmates provide muscle for beautification projects

Prison inmate takes top prize at TVCC contest


April 18

Inmate labor makes a difference

Disabled inmate jail first of its kind

Mentoring program hopes to bridge gap with prisoners

Palestinians Mark Prisoner Day, Pray for Release

Jharkhand jail prisoners go on huger strike

Donating to prisons is Making a Difference for one woman

California needs to prepare inmates for real life

State says health care at prisons 'in a crisis' Poor facilities, bad doctors prompt push for private providers or court takeover


April 16

EG prisoners starving to death

Jails May Soon Turn Away Prisoners

India frees 24 Pak prisoners, around 160 more to be released on Apr. 19

Court told 'hanged' prisoner had fractured skull

Prisoner to pursue alleged jail bashing in civil case

Prisoner can hear clearly now: Murder accused provided with hearing aid

Jail sits idle as inmates go free

Girl Scout's project: Inmates read bedtime tales to their children

Inmates: Jail still not taking staph seriously

Inmate files civil rights suit alleging torture by Chicago police

Prisons need greater scrutiny

Does the government care about the state of prisons?

County moving inmate 'army' into 2 new jails

Inmate uses Internet as thorn in authority's side

Second inmate requests execution

Ex-Mahoning Sheriff's Major Convicted In Inmate Beating

Prisoners Cram County Jail, Workhouse

Shipman took legal action to stop sale of his prison letters

Morocco king pardons inmates on son's circumcision

Inmates 'bribed' to behave


April 15

Make compensation fair, automatic

Report Slams San Quentin Prison for Poor Conditions

Hopkins revisits prison for honor

Thousands of children 'languishing' in prison

Closing prison's revolving door

Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons to Hold First Hearing

Women in prisons

Officials hope to ease mood at Japanese prisons by distributing uniforms in ‘warmer’ hues

Inmate files civil rights suit alleging torture by Chicago police

Executed inmates may be undersedated

Former female inmates get second chance with program

Festa leads National Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative

EG prisoners starving to death

Prisoners to get rehab plans


April 14

Putting a price on unjust prison time

13 dead in Argentine prison violence

Ministry comes up with a bright idea for prisons

Poet shares his poetry with people in prisons


April 13

Actress Beatrice Dalle weds prisoner

Social Workers to Help Reintegrate Prisoners

Buchenwald liberation 60 years ago


April 12

Subject of national manhunt wrote book on prison life

Prisoner sues jail over 'fat food'

Bill would release elderly dying inmates

Prison Board: Inmates Need Court Order For Abortion


April 11

Promises of reform for mentally ill jail inmates must be fulfilled

Theater project helps inmates socially and intellectually

Holocaust survivors, German leader honour victims of Buchenwald

Prisoners' projects have helped many

Cuba Activist Reports Prison Uprising


April 9

Doing time with prisoners through video art

Prisoners feast on venison, crayfish

Outer space explored by inmates

Prisoner Re-entry Initiative Funding

Inmates Released From County Jail

Overcrowding at Belgian prisons

Strange Smells From Prisons Act

What are prisons for?

Overcrowding of prisons to be discussed

County OKs deal to send inmates to Texa

County May Put Inmates in Tents

Autauga could house inmates for profi

Ex-Inmate Reaches Out to Youth


April 8

Eight lifers might go free

County May Put Inmates in Tents

Ex-Inmate Reaches Out to Youth


April 7

Program locates mentors for kids of state inmates

My turn: Mentoring children of prisoners

Drug Offenders Fill Alabama Prisons


April 6

Inadequate compensation [Scroll down to this headline]

Prisoners Strike for Right to Pump Iron

Judge tosses Pa. death row inmate's sentence

Not all prisoners 'baddies'

Fight to give inmates vote

Where being a Christian leads to prison and torture


April 5

Call to lift bar on prisoners voting

Some 4,500 Indiana prisoners mentally ill

Inmates strike for right to pump iron

Former law enforcement officer now ministers to inmates

Love and caring could help change inmates' lives

An Insight Into the Life of a Prisoner in Apartheid SA

Prisoner freed to take entrance exam


April 4

Evidence sets prisoner free after 13 years

Inmate able to change legal system from prison

Judge: Death-row inmate unfairly tried

Prison officers blocked medical help for inmate, Iko kin allege

Inmates pursue dreams of education at NBP

Inmates find faith through program

Church group shares Gospel with inmates

Lawmakers want to boost probation, not build more prisons

Florida prisons head to stand trial in wrongful death lawsuit

Jail guard indicted in sex assaults on five women inmates

Lives of HIV Positive Prisoners in Mississippi Saved By Lawsuit, Says the ACLU

Death Row Inmate From Greensboro To Get New Trial

Md. Death Row Inmate Granted Stay of Execution

Prison Guard Charged With Sexual Abuse Of Inmate


April 2

Victims' Rights Group Blasts Prison Rehab Plan

Prison program changes attitudes and outlooks

Jail crowding forces early release of inmates

Making choices, understanding outcomes

Prisons Transfer Health Services to Local PCTS, UK

Legal Aid Council Seeks Access to Prisons

Cell Phones Smuggled Into Prisons

Prisoners may get early release

County Jail Closes Citing High Inmate Housing Costs

Supreme Court sides with death row inmate, says filing deadline may sometimes be suspended

High court hears Ohio's prison issue

Attorney General Investigates Prison Computer Recycling

Infected Prisoners Appeal for Aids Drugs

60 Prisoners Get Presidential Pardon

Magistrates' Strike Overcrowds Prisons

Minister opposes consensual sex in prisons

Prisons must reform to stop HIV, experts

State will seek new bids on mental care in prisons

Compensate exonerated inmates

Courts consider hearing inmates by video feed


April 1

Intentional injustice

Death Row inmate speaks from prison

Prisoners 'need better education'

Infected Prisoners Appeal for Aids Drugs

60 Prisoners Get Presidential Pardon

Prisons must reform to stop HIV, experts

Inmates stage fast to protest isolation

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