News You Can Use
Note: Media organizations keep stories on their Web sites for whatever length of time they desire. Even though links may no longer be valid they are not being removed because they still may provide some information that could be of use if further research is intended.

September 30

Denied a voice

Timely New Justice Department Data Show Prosecutions Climb During Bush Years

Prison overseer faces scrutiny

Court extends deadline for DNA testing

Family suggests Kent County sheriff hid inmate's suicide

Four Guards Charged With Beating Inmate

Shortages epidemic at state prisons

Leaders, public are unperturbed about horrid health care in prisons

Living with TB in prisons

'Our prisons are in a mess'

Inmates' health cheaper

'Home for Good' helps inmates likely to reoffend

Salem prison chaplain has faith that he can keep inmates outside

Remand crowding cited for reduced jail times

Inmates gain advantage from overcrowding

Prison garden helps feed inmates, staff

Prisoner evacuation strains jails

Some guards, lawyers say tensions high at Lucasville prison

Dogs behind bars help inmates and the disabled

Man hurt in escape sues Selenski

Prison staff join gangs

'How CT prison gang raped me'

Inmate sues Northampton County Prison over unit restrictions

Inmate maintains wish to die as he is executed by injection

Wilmington News Journal Series Examines Health Issues in Delaware Prisons, Including HIV/AIDS

Treatment of sex offenders in Colorado prisons

Yes, they’re guilty, but the sentence wasn’t illness

Accountability for deadly prisons

Sri Lanka: Prisons officers launch work-to-rule campaign demanding proper security

Two Prisons Remain Closed In Rita’s Wake

Malay prisoners treated 'less than human': watchdog

Sheriff's office, inmates donate money to Red Cross

New program to help ex-inmates find work

Inmates pack St. Clair County jail

State prevails in lawsuit over prison transfers

Female Hawai'i inmates leave Colo. for Ky. prison

Officials break ground for prison

Inmates: Grooming rules violate faith


September 28

Indiana should stop executing prisoners

After the Hurricane: Where Have All the Prisoners Gone? More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For

Medaid for prisons lost R500m a year to fraud

Cries of Delaware's inmates get silent treatment from state's leaders

Inmates injured after concrete cell ceiling curves in

Calif. Inmates to Get Orange Undies

Judge drops one prison official in ex-inmate's lawsuit

ACLU lawyers fear for inmates' safety

Therapy promises no cure, just reduced risk

Public can track inmates’ progress in therapy

DCI inmates help care for animals

Inmate population overflowing at county jail

Jail's inmate account emptied

Deputies won't be charged in death

Sheriff says inmate shocked six times before dying

Ghost Prison Open, But No One Home

Prisons inspector reveals 18 children held in adult jails

Prison report overcrowding fears

Prison food is so poor it's criminal


September 27

Relief for bursting jails

'Waking up' to the needs of former inmates

As Floodwaters Rose, Inmates and Guards Were in It Together

Inmates blossom along with garden

Dutchess County Jail grows, houses many more inmates since time it opened in 1931

AIDS epidemic raging behind bars

AIDS hits the street on inmates' release

Crowded Gregg jail starting to limit admittance

Concourt rejects HIV+ prisoner's bid

Judge orders mental evaluation of death row inmate Dansby

AIDS turns prison time into death sentence

Inmate questions standards for driving offenses

'I was in prison'

Prison ministry offers inmates cookies, caring, lifelong change

Short sharp shock at boys’ corrective centre

The trouble with prison reforms

Proposed budget holds line on inmate population

Death row inmates work for state

State may convert prison


September 26

How would Roberts rule?

Malays demand release of prisoners held without trial

Parole Board warned to comply on prisoner hearings

Firm that employs inmates sues its spinoff company

3 area inmates win parole

No Early Release for Utah Inmates

American Legion post helps inmates give back

Construction and landscaping program helps inmates, communities

Prisons of pain

Agra prisoners riot over deaths

Inmate is fourth man to drop death-penalty appeals

Once an inmate, now an inspiration

Inmate's family gets settlement after death

Corrections department chief says the prison riot incident will serve as anecdote for other prisons

Odds against inmates in grievances

Prisons discharging seriously ill inmates

Cruel & Unusual

Private companies enter prison health care

Inmate Was Considered 'Property' of Gang, Witness Tells Jury in Prison Rape Lawsuit


September 25

I'm Behind Bars

Prisons: 60 Children in mothers' cells, Corbelli-Ciampi appeal

Production continues on video system to connect jail inmates to courtrooms

Felons could be among those who are released

Dose of reality

Inmates want visit 'rights' back

Pharmacy, inmates aid wheelchair patients

Helping Aura: Prison chaplain helps heal troubled inmates

Inmates at county jail take collection for Katrina

DA blasts judges over electronic monitoring

Changes may be in store for inmates

Inmate deaths prompt board action

Tables turned on inmate painter

Inmate's suit moves to federal court

Door slams on early inmate release

Former police officer sentenced for attacking inmate

Lancaster inmate's death caused by Taser

County hopes to cut inmate medical costs

Court denies appeal by Death Row inmate

Prison close to chaos after Katrina

GEO Prison Employees Wait for Decision From Governor

New prison will open in Warm Springs

Corrections proposes women's alternative prison in Billings

Inmates evacuated to avoid Rita

Advocates seek to restore benefits for released inmates

Alabama Jails Continue to Be Overcrowded

Ill inmates' bills lead to lawsuits

Idaho wants to farm out inmates to other states

Inmates protest for hearings

County inmates slowly being brought back home to Bradford

Death Row Inmate McGilberry Re-Sentenced To Life In Prison

Prisoner reports rape in hospital

Prison work crews to help in storm cleanup

Chino prison riot leaves two inmates in critical condition

Federal judge: Va. prisons’ use of restraints unconstitutional

Wages unfair in prisons

Governor signs bills on young drivers, prisons

Prisons budget's goal is no increase in inmates

Budget: Castelli, Prisons to overflow by end of 2006

Dalai Lama Speaks up for Prisoners, Non-Believer

Tougher sentences filling up prisons

Macomb OKs more early releases

County jails forced to keep state prisoners longer

New community service puts prisoners in skirts

16 female prisoners released from Angola


September 23

Prisons full, and so are jails

New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters

Long on inmates, short on deputies

State Acts To Block Inmate's Lawsuits

Lawsuit filed in Gwinnett inmate death

Inmate's suicide kept quiet for week

Prisoner doesn’t want to pay

Moving inmates faster a mixed bag

Evacuated inmates file suit to be set free

State inmates cost Cass

State inmates backed up in county jails

5,000 inmates evacuated by bus

Whitley inmates have nowhere to go

Inmate testifies man was sold for sex by prison gang

House Budget Approves U.P. Prisons

Prisons: Horror that benefits some people

Oyo prisons officials beat up Tribune photojournalist - Heads may roll in prisons over Ikoyi mayhem

DGP (Prisons) files affidavit on granting parole to prisoners


September 22

Inmate Killed When Deputies Choked Off Oxygen Supply

Extra bookkeeper hired to track inmate fund

Special Allowance For Warders Handling HIV/Aids Prisoners

S.B. Supes OK immigration checks of prisoners

Prisoners won't get $400

Agencies to work together to help prisoners returning to society

More prisoners prefer solitary confinement

12 inmates dead at Guatemala youth prison

200 Utah inmates to go free?

Woodbridge prison guests attack inmates

County explores options for housing female inmate

Rita Prompts Relocation Of Thousands Of Inmates

Jailers 'sadistic toward Muslims'

Inquiry considers risk-assessing violent inmates

Crowded prisons backing up into N.C. county jails

Assistant warden calls prisons' sex assault investigations lax


September 21

Inmates' efforts poignant story

Rhea County Considers Additional Ambulance Service, Cheaper Care For Inmates

County might house Quay juvenile inmates

Sheriffs fight to keep Orleans inmates from being released here

Glodis rejects female inmates

Former jail officer sentenced for having sex with inmates

1,056 inmates awaiting trials in federal prisons

Cutting prison numbers

Go straight and state will look after you, Clarke tells prisoners

Clarke to increase private role in prisons

Church of Scotland to Launch New Support Project for Prisoners’ Families

Nurses, Prisoners, Churches Help Katrina Survivors

Action for Prisoners' Families: Charity welcomes 'community prison' plans but says more is needed

Sheriff’s Office probes death of jail inmate after Taser use

Judge approves inmate's abortion request

Death row inmate to get February evidence hearing

Inmate's fake love notes get confession from another prisoner

Martha’s collegiate euphemism for prison

Stones In The Pathway Of Justice

US Prison Population Continues to Grow


September 20

A Call to Prisoners: Take history into your hands!

Death row inmate refuses to attend clemency hearing

Prisons introduces measures to forestall jail-break

More Prisons Not a Solution to Overcrowding, Conference Suggests

Clarke to unveil plans for community prisons

Through the looking glass in US prisons

Jury Seated For Inmate’s Prison Rape Lawsuit Trial

Jail and Prison Ministry:Education, compassion needed in outreach to the incarcerated, says coordinator

Changes planned to make prisons safer

Wyoming looks to cut cost of prison health care

State prison system plagued by turnover, officer vacancies

Prison health contract costs $10 million per year

Racial conflict 'ignored' in jail

Inmates walk to raise money for breast cancer research

Guest Editorial: State restrictions on interviewing inmates should be eased

Caloocan plans ‘condo’ for inmates

Jails being stretched to limits

Overcrowding at Wilson Co. jail may let some inmates go free

Gwalior Jail inmates on reform path through a musical band


September 19

Fulton County jail hundreds over the proposed limit

Easing inmates back into society

Crowded Wilson jail may let inmates go

Jail plans big reduction in visiting time

Challenges of confinement

Open-jail policy: Counties with newer jails welcome out-of-county prisoners – at a cost

Female Prisoners Overcrowding Area Jails

Death Row Inmate to Ask for Clemency

Court to look at inmate crowding

Work on prison scheduled to begin Oct. 1

Easing the Hard Time

Michigan youth prison is sued by group

Close prison, create problems?

Prison Sex Slave Trial Set to Begin in Texas


September 18

Don't write off inmates, says slain man's ex-lover

Ngige raises prisoners’ hope for justice

Male prisoners 5 times more likely to commit suicide than males not in prison, UK

Prisoners face loss of right to early release

Prisons chief: New admissions plan saved $1.2M

Jail population driving up overtime costs

Visit to Jailed Client Ends in Lawyer's Arrest

Prisoner escorts to be spared inspections until 2006

Prison Locked Down After Warden Loses Keys

Nevada prison chief quits, cites health problems

State prison system is probed

Photographs of Lafave: too much information

The Lafave photos

7,000 may have claimsin strip-search lawsuit

Local inmates could end up in Gallup

Sheriff proposes new jail to halt early release of inmates


September 17

Farm gives inmates a chance to grow

La. frees, assists Orleans inmates

Jail will let some inmates out early

Fuel Crisis Hits Prisons

Drug Use Inside Maryland Prisons On The Rise

New troubles plague ex-prisons supervisor

State faces court fight over prisons

Anger at Lack of Care for Mentally Ill Prisoner

Painting the walls in a colour of peace and hope

Staph hits corrections officers and prisoners

Northpoint officers to help relocate Louisiana prisoners

Alabama prisoners raise money behind bars for Katrina victims

Audit shows former prison chief did not follow proper prisoner release policy

Rushville residents show support for prison plan

Workers on stress leave following prison sex assault

'Prison warder gave me a lift, then raped me'

Prison staff criticised over handling of suicidal inmate

Inmate dies after prison attack

Inmate death investigation continues

Miss. death row inmate ordered re-sentenced to life in prison

Japanese inmate first of year to be hanged

Former prisoner sues county jail


September 16

Orangeburg jail allowed to house federal prisoners

Vietnam pardons over 35,000 prisoners

Catholic group tests state on jail crowding

Men in prison 'higher suicide risk'

Intended prison site receives necessary zoning

Anger at plan to close prison

State faces court fight about prison horrors

Prisoner Reforms by Opening a Fish Farm

Journalist in court over prison visit

Morgan sheriff cuts off free inmate labor to commission

Suit dismissal clears doc in inmate death

Bureau of Prisons calls on Unisys for inmate phone system

Nevada prison chief quits, cites health problems

Inmates not in hot water

No room in jails

Palace pardons 18 more elderly inmates

Inmate-transfer costs estimated

20% of minimum-security inmates test positive for drugs

More Md. prison inmates testing positive for drugs

The Great Prison Panty Rebellion of Alabama


September 15

Agencies sharing spoils of drug war

Jailer and son could become prisoners

18 more elderly prisoners pardoned

Ex-prisoner's youth project in line for win

Pennsylvania Correctional Industries Ineffectively Managed

Death row inmate says he won't get fair clemency hearing

Inmate release likely today

Last-ditch efforts to save inmate

Lowell inmate's victory upheld

Reforming country's prison system

County inmates need help to overcome drug addictions

Omagh victim says ex-inmates may join police

No reasons to blame prison staff for inmates' strike - minister

Jail inmates banned from State Court

Area prison eyed for sex offenders

ISS hosts talks to address prison overcrowding

Prison Guard Charged with Having Sex with Inmate

Conflict Seen in Contract for Private Prison

Senior prisons administrator to quit

Legislature must stop price gouging in prisons

U.S. Bureau of Prisons Contracts with Unisys for Nationwide Deployment of Telephony Solution

Jail overcrowding spills inmates into the streets

Judges told not to fill up prisons


September 14

Sexual predator to be housed outside prison

'I'm missing 16 years of my life:' Prison nightmare ends after daughter recants tale of rape

Greyhound Complains Over Name Of Temporary Jail

After Katrina, Where Have All the Prisoners Gone?

Executed Chinese prisoners skinned for collagen treatments

DNA Test Could Free Inmate From 1975 Crime

Judge dismisses ex-inmate's civil rights suit

Court, parole board reject inmate's appeal

Guard sentenced for inmate sex

Call to screen prisoners for mental health problems

Agricultural training for 250 Richmond Farm inmates

Prison inmates find a way to get around red tape and help victims

Non Profit Organizations Set To Put Inmates To Work

Status of Remand Inmates in Nigerian Prisons


September 13

After 5 years, prisons in black

C/River to support Nigeria prisons

Beaten prisoner sues for $10m

Mother slams sex offender programme

Inside the fishbowl: Glenn County Jail close up

Health provider looks to restore jail's medical care

Jail crowding, age bring call for new facility

New Stark jail on time, budget

Educator teaching inmates new perspective

Incompetent inmates held at county lockup

Tea time scrapped for inmates

Inmates can't be forsaken

EBR prison flush with inmates

Interserve chosen to build prison

Next step is to shut down brutish juvenile prison

Home detention working well - prisoners' advocates


September 12

Inmate donates to Katrina aid fund

New Orleans lock-up is open

Hennepin jail faces balancing act

Just Reduced! Discounted Jail Cells Available

Sheriff seeks OK on nonprofits

Inmates puff up budget

County to tap inmates' accounts to collect fees, fines

A new kind of jail

Inmates find contentment in giving to others

County Web site tracks inmates, charges

Prison staff taking air conditioners, other aid

Prison chief inherits hurdles

Judge acquits 2 men convicted in VitaPro kickback scheme

Prison officers threaten to block low security area

For prisoners' children, mentors fill a gap

Women in charge

Management of Wisconsin women's prisons reorganized


September 11

Request for DNA test backfires on inmate

Women inmates win ribbons at Bi-County Fair

California's system for parolees called ineffective revolving door

Mayor blames release of jail inmates for crime

Plenty of jobs for prisoners to do

UP Prisons Have Apparently Been Saved


September 10

Richland County to fire inmate health care company

Inmate due prayer feather, judge says

Death row inmate gets new hearing

Families To Mark Anniversary Of Attica Riot

Rep. Jones wants prison inmates to pay sales tax

Lawmakers approve better media access to inmates

Inmates in Khodorkovsky’s Prison Go on Hunger Strike

Jail ministers help inmates battle demons of addiction

Many L.A. County Jail Inmates Still Held Too Long

New chief selected for state correction

Decongesting Prisons

Youth prisons office sets up phone lines to connect families

Management of Wisconsin women's prisons reorganized

Fulham Prison staff begin industrial action

State proposes to triple size of meth treatment prison

Unions hopeful prison pay dispute will be resolved

Union president proposes isolating infected prisoners

Zimbabwe prisoners using Bibles as toilet paper


September 9

Steep rise in underage prisoners

Official: Tracking inmate GED rates difficult

Inmate's backers protest outside defender's home

Jackson looks to use inmate labor in cleanup

Inmates Help With Hurricane Relief Efforts

Maori Party woos inmates

Prisons director: Impressive proposal

Former prisons administrator indicted

County prison confirms infection

Prison Fellowship Defends Evacuation of Prisoners before Citizens

New prison for Eloy


September 8

State releases prison assault statistics

Sheriff presents plan to reduce inmate population at jail

Inmate Gardeners Win Big at Vermont Fair

Georgia death row inmate dies of cancer

From a jail springs charity

State: Wayne Prison shortfalls continue

County nixes GED program for inmates

It's no chain gang, but inmates are hard at work

GMA frees 65 aging inmates

Prisons segregate Rastafarians

Prisons may re-introduce deployment of convicts to farms

Basic Skills Fighting Crime, Part One

Inmates treated for staph disease

Prisons boss urges CJs to release more prisoners

CJs Urged to Release More Prisoners


September 7

Inmate gardeners win big at Champlain Valley Fair

New Orleans : prisoners fell on barbed wire in bid to find water

Cold cells no way to treat prisoners

Prison officers fear return to jail overcrowding

Prison Service call to women and Catholics

Prison sued over reports of mistreatment after rape

Jail's warden plays down inmate danger

Inmate health care fund depleted

New Orleans' Newest Jail Open for Business

Committee Working On New Jail

Colo. prison shop makes custom saddles

Straight Answers: Commissioner of Prisons

Session on crowded prisons

Aussies try to smuggle food into prisons


September 6

Zambia: Agencies step in to address HIV/AIDS in prisons

Hurricane, other factors push back prison plans

Union criticizes prison chief

Inmates Serving Large Community

Limestone County Detention Center to house more inmates

Prison Service accused on women inmates


September 5

Inmate artist fights prison policy

DA takes issue with think tank’s call for prisoner releases

Don't ignore jail problem

Health Department says staph infections increase at prison

Ex-inmate turns Fulbright scholar

ESPN's Kenny Mayne and SportsCenter visit prison rodeo

No toilets, no takers at prison hotel

Serving meals -- and time -- in famous Cape Town prison

Calipatria riot reflects troubled prison system

Mauritania political pardon, prisoners released

Pssst – prisoners learn lesson from horse whisperers

Over 4,000 Prisoners Freed From Kingdom’s Jails After Pardon

Supreme Leader grants amnesty, reduced prison terms to 7,780 prisoners

Libya pardons 1,675 prisoners to mark revolution

In Tihar, prisoners are turning in-house reformers

Prisons Weigh Threat of Radical Islamist Gangs


September 4

Someone for Sierra

Prisons in New Orleans empty, temporary booking facility up

Statistics say mental illness disproportional in Maine's prisons

1,418 inmates in Region 11 awaiting court decision

Rally for female inmates planned for October

Doctor: Taser may have led to inmates' deaths

25,000 Inmates Awaiting Trial

Lonoke police chief back on job after complaints involving inmates

WA to monitor inmates' computers

County corrections officer arrested on sex-assault charges

Cutting return rates crucial

Changes planned for state's inmate transition program

Courts right victory for mentally ill prisoners

State worker union criticizes Nevada prison chief

Lawsuit alleges gay bashing at state youth prison

Rodeo tougher than prison for some


September 3

Prisoners' PC audit reveals porn, secret surfing

Condemned Nigerian bags two degrees in Thailand prison

Former Easton police sergeant charged with beating prisoner

Number of prisoner complaints down

British prisons in 'shambolic' state says MP

State Inmate Transition Program Being Changed

Prison Inmates Offer Up Hurricane Relief

More than $16,000 missing from inmates' account at County Jail

Busting at seams, Will County Jail may transfer inmates


September 2

Do the right thing for Dedge

Florida judge says exonerated prisoner can't sue state for compensation

Keep prison and juvenile centre close, Opposition urges

Scottish Prison Service unveil plans

Maryland prisoners will build some furniture for state House

Prisoners coming to the Astrodome?

Juvenile prisoners being neglected, say experts

Montenegro police criticised for beating up inmates

South Louisiana inmates bound for lockup in Bossier Parish

Storm prompts massive transfer of inmates

Jail inmates, tanods and students receive arms to help prevent crime

Program helps inmates earn diplomas


September 1

Judge says exonerated prisoner can't sue state for compensation

Family of NC inmate who died to get $350,000 in insurance

Utah's oldest death-row inmate to get new sentencing hearing

Widow of dead inmate sues jail's mental health provider

Inmates fear jail boilover

Inmates to get an outside chance

Plan Offers Inmates Better Living Conditions

Hurricane forces inmates from Jefferson into Angola

County wants more room, fewer inmates

Independent review ordered in early release of inmates

Calls for Morocco to stop strike of west Sahara prisoners

New Orleans prisoners evacuated

50 more prisoners housed at Mobilong

Riley may call special session for prison fixes

Public Pocket Picked over Poor Payment of Prison Educators

Six Fired Youth Prison Counselors Are Reinstated

State finally embraces sound prison solutions

Red Cross inspects state of Fiji prisons

Alberta eyes prisons

Act releases prisons policy

FBI assesses extremist threat in prisons

News Archives

News | Books and Music | Links | Prison Art | Letters from Prison | Who we are
PRISONS FOUNDATION.ORG
1718 M Street, NW, #151 Washington, DC 20036. E-mail: Staff@PrisonsFoundation.org Phone: 202-393-1511
Notice: The Internal Revenue Service has determined that the Prisons Foundation is a publicly-supported 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization and that, in view of its official nonprofit status, contributions made to the Prisons Foundation are deductible to the fullest extent of the law.