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The Evil War on Drugs


February 27


Should severely damaged youth go to prison?
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Prisoners finding debt to society getting larger

Medical practices affirmed

Inmate claims rape

Jones and Baldwin counties have more inmates on death row than other midstate counties combined

Optimism reigns as 23 jail inmates receive educational certificates

Medical parole cheaper alternative to treating elderly inmates

Inmates fed diet of violent flicks

MRSA routinely found in prisons, jails
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State Chief of Prisons Says He's Resigning
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February 26


Off death row, he now waits for a ride

Camp rules allowed force

Pender County Inmates Prepare for "Fathers Day"

Prison guard, once praised, accused of sex with killer
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Govt rejects fears over removing right to vote from prisoners

Prisons will implement full tobacco ban

Our idle jails: Prisons locked in crisis

Lethal injection for executions under scrutiny

Inmates sent elsewhere sue Barrow jail

Judge orders changes to accommodate high-profile inmates at Miami's Federal Detention Center

Solutions sought for mentally ill prison, jail inmates
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Idaho Inmates Could End Up In Texas


February 25


Justices acquit man sentenced to death

The FBI and the Myth of Fingerprints

Sheriff, prisoner build wealth of mutual respect in unusual relationship in Lamesa

Old Jail Will Re-Open for 108 Prisoners

Beaver Sheriff's Relationship With Inmate Investigated

Prisons overloaded

Private Prisons Result Of Financial Considerations

Activist takes on racism, politics, prisons in Tech talk

Ehrlich addresses prison safety

Musgrave opens up to inmates

Study says Miami County needs jail for 173 inmates

Inmates may have to serve full time, says minister

Despite setbacks, facility could be ready for inmates by early 2007

Idaho inmates in Minnesota likely will be forced to go elsewhere

2 inmates sue over distance from attorney

Superintendent fired over state juvenile prison problems

Prison board discusses media protocol
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Private prison plan floated for Huachuca City
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Boot camp rules to stress safety


February 24


‘Exonerated’ tells of death-row inmates who were proven innocent

County jail inmates earn GEDs
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State doctor surprised by autopsy finding of boot camp death

Prescription costs for inmates swelling in Schuylkill County

As jails packed, inmates may get to leave

Inmates evaluated for early release

Judges formulate plan to curb early release of inmates
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KY State Inmates In County Jails Costing Taxpayers?
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Minister says prison report food for thought

Prison's 'restrictive' regime slammed
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Census Bureau Resists Prison Count Plan
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Panel to assess facilities to prisoners

New archive collects prisoners' last pleas for life
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Wives, children of prisoners feel helpless, frustrated

Riot alert as prisoners face smoking ban

Harrison Co. sheriff opposes video request in dead inmate case
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State Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Death Row Inmate

Ober brings solid reputation to boot camp probe

Juvenile boot camps to get new policies

Cruelty To Victims' Families


February 23


Too many questions

Sheriff to shut boot camp

Women prisoners deserve the best

Ex-prisoners cry for funding
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Mexico nixes payment for county prisoner costs
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Deputy accepts plea deal for inmate death beating
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Shut-up Shakespeares

Woody urges 'smarter' prisons

Prison Personals: Inmates Posting Online Ads

Inmates describe hideous beating

Race walls won't end jail riots

County Jail May Evict Its State Inmates
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Relatives: Treatment, not adult prison, is best for teen who killed family

California prison reschedules killer's execution after doctors walk out

Prison officers set to sue for supervising slopping out


February 22


Jurors Deliberate Ex-Death Row Inmate's Retrial

Inmate meditation group celebrates fourth anniversary

Death penalty issue gets confusing

Death penalty talk Thursday
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Teen Crimes, Adult Prisons

Maine Joins Few States With Accredited Prisons

Tanzania: HIV/AIDS counselling centres set up in prisons

Cameroon: Tuberculosis and AIDS soaring in prisons

Baca to Face Off with Supes

French prisons, detention centres under fire

Problem of where to place Meridian inmates is ongoing

Inmates describe hideous beating

Doctors Bow Out of Calif. Execution
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Prison official says Morales "nonchalant" over delay in execution

Prison term to be raised to 10 years for securities law offenders

Prison blasted for Pop Idol-style event
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Prison to increase inmate numbers


February 21


Too many prisoners, not enough cells

Pastor spreads Word to prisons
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Prisoners' work often extremely creative

Prisoner builds new career on the inside

Prisoner violence doubles at Perth

Ex-inmate freed from meth

U.S. high court denied killer's bid for stay
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Texas Death Row Inmate Wins Reprieve

Contract for inmate health care saves Kenton jail $276K in '05

Police warned against prisoner abuse
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State emphasizes inmate rehab

Kentucky: Technology Partnership Saves Millions, Improves Quality of Inmates' Medical Care

Huron Valley to take more female inmates

Counties cashing in on jail overcrowding

Attacks in Calif. Jails Highlight Racial Tensions
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Mentors guide children of inmates

A long way from home, Hawaii inmates held in eastern Kentucky

NPC seeks access to prisons during census

Former inmate knows prisons, and about living right

Prisons director lobbies for higher pay

Prisons ask for alternatives to jailing deadbeat parents

Investigation finds prison dentists did not properly clean tools
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New prison chief's lack of behind-bars experience may be helpful
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We thought it was a trap: why prison officers left inmate hanging in cell


February 20


A long way from home, Hawaiian inmates held in eastern Kentucky
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Former prisoners find a rough road from jail cell to job

Unsavory jail chow, service get action

Inmates given lessons in reading, parenting

San Quentin inmates 'purge' past, aid others

Two inmates at OCJ have staph skin infections

Jail guards: How many?
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Newspaper: Number of inmates sent to death row dropping

Inmates get to blend in at Capitol

Report: Alabama's habitual offender laws filling state prisons
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Dentist's prison work investigated

Florida's prison ills defy easy solution

Within prison walls, relationships flourish

6 injured in L.A. prison fighting
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National warns over open prison proposals


February 19


Boot camp injustice

Attention! This is boot camp

Unsettling tape does little to settle debate

Defect, death hotly debated

Pair’s specialty: Develop addicted inmates’ good sides

Quick fix not likely for woes at prisons

Big Island inmates suing state over poor treatment

Drug company: South Florida prisons may be harming inmates
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LA Jail Riots Preventable, According to Report

Work it off

Lawsuit over prison religion program goes to judge

Secret prison audit also lets officials hide what's wrong in dark

New secretary hopes to restore code of ethics in prison system

Balance education for prisoners

Tactics to tackle child prisoners scare peer

Dean's girlfriend says 'yes' after he pops the question while in prison

Prisoner may get six years off sentence


February 18


Unsettling tape does little to settle debate
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Nine prison staffers suspended after inmate allegedly abused
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Sheriff's office employee charged with assaulting inmate
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CS Gas Dad Wins £15K

End 'child abuse' in prison, urges inquiry
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CBS4 Investigates: Trial Witness Beaten By Inmates

Faith-based prison program case in judge's hands

'After Innocence’ screens story of inmates freed by DNA evidence

Inmates to help build Pretty Prairie project

Too Many Inmates In Newport News Jail Makes It Unsafe

Grootvlei inmates to benefit from ART site
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County stacks inmates

Prisons chief grilled

Imprisoned by bad policy

Prisons undeniably need more funding

Inmates provide cities cheap labor

Calif. inmates obtain prison employee data
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Child prisoners must be made to accept their responsibilities

Ex-prisoners unite to expose Myanmar's gulag

Inmate Segregation Mostly Lifted in Calif.
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February 17


End Mandatory Sentencing

Fix boot camps, or close them?
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Does Prison Harden Inmates?
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Local College Offers Class At Prison

Building prisons is no solution

Neighbors kill state's grant for housing ex-prisoners

Inmate safety concerns prompt Bleckley County jail closing
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Suit claims jailers ignored inmate sex

Anti-Drugs Agency Opens 16th Service Centre

Limited Capacity At Rehabilitation Centres, Inmates Freed

Young inmates to get better classrooms with renovations

LA County inmates get mail again but lockdown continues
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Prisons Department catches flak for state of cemetery

Decision on prisons inquiry expected

Embattled prisons get two overseers
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Poor don't Belong in Prisons. Fight the WTO!

Report criticising prisons out of date, says minister

Jail rehab worse than nothing

Govt feels heat on prisons
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PAC money released
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February 16


Inmates' families want cut in high phone rates

Inmates can expect a 'living hell'

Inmates become amateur TV journalists in Italy jail

Thomson Prison May Finally Open

Judge Appoints Calif. Prison Overseer

'Being in jail is the best thing that ever happened to me'

Dealing with female prisoners a cost concern for Fannin County

Umatilla County sheriff asks Mex. government to pay for prisoners

Corrections admits failing to reach rehabilitation targets of prisoners
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Prisoners have rights

More prisoner race fighting breaks out in sheriff's bus

Family of dead inmate request videos of arrest and incarceration

More prisons do not address gang problem

Governor proposes new ideas to combat crime, boost prisons
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Crackdown blamed for jammed prisons
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French prisons criticised
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February 15


State can do more to prevent tragedy at hands of sex offenders

More funding should go to schools, not prisons

Pitiful prisons

Inmate unable to drop appeals
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Lost inmate freed after 38 years without charge

Former anchorage inmate spills beans
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Open prisons under consideration

Controller: Groups owe county $262K

Program goal: Keep inmates from returning
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Muslim inmates want meat on the menu
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Provincial inmates jammed two to a cell

Legal challenge against site for new Mountjoy prison dropped
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U.S. court takes over Calif. prison health system
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A `home' behind razor wire: Conjugal visits

Prisoners' suit claims spraying harmed them
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Heart-felt monument to prisoners of love
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Public fail to submit views on Bill

Archaic correction laws

Educate inmates on sex risks

Prisoners to test for AIDS

Medical MJ Prisoner Rylee Mistreated in Sacto Jail

American Samoa: Former Warden Arrested For Beating Prisoner

Special investigations unit probes death of police prisoner


February 14


Muslim inmates unhappy with food in state's prisons

Prisoners to test for AIDS

Prisons need a legal officer

Judge: Inmates entitled to kosher meals

Proposals would make inmates pay rent
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Placement of Violent Inmates at County Hospital Is Criticized
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New Zealand seen as bad prison example

Jeff Gerritt: Allowing conjugal visits for prisoners would be pro-family

Prisoners claim guards sprayed them with burning chemicals

Prisoners and Playstations

Corrections chief both right, wrong

Alabama prisoners transferred to Louisiana facility
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Number of 'life' prisoners doubles
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Prisoner Premium Bond ban lifted
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France in the dock over prisoner rights

Court overturns death sentence for city man

Government considers open prisons in bid to cut inmate numbers
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Inmate dies after L.A. jail fight between blacks and Hispanics
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February 13


Teen lost his chance to finish turnaround
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DNA May Help Remove Ohio Inmate From Death Row

Prisons give boost to county’s economy

At last, common sense on prisons

Japan's prisons adapting to rapidly graying populations

Race wars inflame Californian prisons

Fannin commissioners to consider moving female inmates

Maury Correctional Institute nearly ready for inmates

Regional jail overcrowding called threat to inmates and correctional officers

9 inmates hurt in latest L.A. jail riot

Regular school for inmates in Tihar
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Prison Health Chief Set

Dorm system, few guards make prison policing difficult

Spotlight on 'Outsiders': Biblically inspired pieces, works from prison add richness to three exhibits at Guilford

Lawmakers testy halfway into session

Officer: Overcrowding not a problem at jail

Menu makeover for Jharkhand prisoners

House clarifies treatment of prisoners deemed 'unfit to plead'

Prisoners use video game to relive crime
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Inmate lawyers suggest reducing number of prisoners

Inmate release 'not a mass exodus'

FBI investigates inmate's death

Methods of running jails vary drastically


February 12


Painted out of a corner: Artistic outlets for young inmates allow creativity to blossom

Plan Puts Female Inmates in Centers by Their Families
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Meth Users' Rotten Teeth Eat Into Prison Budgets
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Risdon prison conditions 'deplorable', expert says

Muttur Magistrate visits prison, addresses prisoners rights

Minister says prisoners are afraid

Investigation ends for jail meds case

Forgery Is Alleged in Killer's Clemency Bid
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Florida Reviews Case of German Death Row Inmate

Alabama's prisons commissioner resigns
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A threat to safety

Governor fires prisons boss amid widening investigation
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Medical parole unpopular, despite cost of treating sick prisoners

A project aimed at exonerated inmates

Stop whining, inmates; prison shouldn't be easy

Jail inmates freed due to crowding

Update 6: Black, Hispanic Inmates Separated in L.A.
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Inmates test positive for TB
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February 11


Ex-Inmates Say Gangs Force Them to Fight

Inmates become amateur TV journalists in Italy jail

Profiting from prisons

Judge: Charge Against Prison Worker 'Absurd'
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Jail Officials Work To Restore Order After Violent Week

Inmate denied funeral furlough
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Detention centre 'deceptive' on inmate services

Prison guard convicted of beating inmate
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Ongoing prison rape in local prisons

Alabama's prisons commissioner resigns
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Head of Florida prison system resigns under pressure
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Washington HR group says inmates control Venezuelan jails

Meth inmates

Rep. Terri Hodge Helped Inmates Win Parole

Judge agrees state doesn't have authority to represent inmates
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Senate Bill Allow MDOC To Pay Counties Holding State Inmates

Six counties looking at regional jail in Valley City area


February 10


Donations bring outside to inmates
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Free Leonard Peltier: Political Prisoner held for 30 years by U.S. government

Thrifty lawmakers get prison bargains
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Expert calls for abolition of current prison system

Offender management: PRT: Prison reform overdue

Prison Officers

Offender management: Alcohol Concern: Resources needed for prisoner plans

Coroner leans toward inquest in prisoner's death

No doors at lock-up loos for women

Released inmate seeks counseling, turns self in

Inmate denied computer in prison cell

Harrison County inmate tortured by jailers, attorney says
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Exhibition of products for prisons captivates

Clarke unveils penal reform strategy

Well-off criminals will be given higher fines

Compulsory work plan to cut prison numbers
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Criminals to help build Olympic site
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At a glance: private prisons & key facts

Judge Blasts State Officials Over Treatment Of Youth Inmates
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Inmates suffer hell in crammed Dhaka jail

More than 300 inmates eligible to seek early parole

Mentally ill inmates 'a rapidly growing problem' in county

LA County jails on lockdown after brawls leave 19 inmates injured
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February 9


DNA testing, compensation bills advance in Legislature

The Crimes of Pot Justice

Caught in drug laws' gray areas

A System Tennesseans Cannot Afford

Commentary: As Recently-Exonerated Prisoners Prove, DNA Tests Are Worth the Cost

Finland: GPS control proposed for prisoners on parole

Prison brutality
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Judge orders improvements at state's youth prison
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Sheriff to Move Violent Inmates

Inmates and re-entry

Jail set to re-integrate inmates

Courts Can't Be Blamed for Prisons Congestion - Sakala

GMA grants executive clemency to 15 female prisoners, conditional pardon to 38 old inmates

Texas Killer of Disabled Girl Executed

Jurors don't back death

Death Row inmate's lawyers deny forging statement
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Prison scraps inmate projects, citing safety, security concerns
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Former Lancaster County inmate sues over prison attack
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Letter: Death row inmate wants to "face execution"


February 8


AIDS, behavior questioned in Louisiana’s prisons, jails

Wood Dale girl dies; dad in prison denied a last visit
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Avonmore mayor wants video link with county night court

Clarke County may not house Meridian prisoner

No voice for prisoners at penal event

Prisoners: Just let us plead guilty

Questions raised on treatment of prisoners
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Watchdog condemns suicides prison

Jail murder threats 'not reported'

Officer accused in beating of prisoner could lose job

Officials to weigh 'inmate' options
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Harrison County inmate involved in altercation with jailers dies

Mitchell Rupe, inmate found too heavy to hang, dead at 51

Inmates still get hormones

Zimbabwe prison chief says inmates virtually on death row

10 News Extra: Inmates find love, marry while incarcerated
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Staffing Hurdles Stymie Sheriff

US inmates segregated after prison riot
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February 7


Prison riots may lead to inmate segregation in LA
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Spare death-row inmate’s life, plead U.S. Catholic leaders to Maryland guv

Hospital wants more for inmate care

Feds charge former Westchester County Jail guard with violating inmate’s civil rights for causing his death

Japan's prison population aging rapidly
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State officials say next prison crunch years away

Sold with conviction

Keeping parolees out of prison makes sense
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Action threat in prison dispute

No prison for drug cheats, says top Games official
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Prisoners to get better mental-health services

Ailing, disabled prisoners present challenge

Former prisoners find a rough road from jail cell to job

Uganda's Prisons Not the Worst

Union: MD. Prisons In 'State Of Emergency'

Autauga County profiting off federal inmates

Pair of projects to boost inmate beds

Cases of death row inmates from North County moving through appeals process
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Bill Would Release Inmates Early For Good Behavior


February 6


State attorney deserves praise for work on Crotzer case

Of pain and punishment

Prisoner-education bill held another year

Prisoner ends attempt in court to treat cancer symptoms with medical marijuana

Learning behind bars

Keeping inmates from coming back

New contract will ask prisoners for a promise to go straight

Prisoners rights need shielding

Prisoners battling overcrowded cells — and each other

Supermax prisons losing favor as demand shifts

Tax Money Makes A Move
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Gray, Jones again discuss jail contrac

Nutritious BUT Delicious ?

Pair of projects to boost inmate beds

California execution method on trial

Nixon expects inmate’s argument to be denied

'I was raped in jail,' says young prisoner

Cairo, Ill., family says prisoner wouldn't hurt self


February 5


Chaos, coverups for state's sex offenders

Canada's third-world prisons: Cruel and unusual punishment

Don't 'throw away' another child in prisons

Letters: Female prisoners still convicted criminals

Sri Lanka pardons prisoners on Independence Day

Death-Row Inmate Evans Loses Another Appeal

Appeals court rejects inmate claims that drug tests not secure

Inmate, officials voice support for new meth-treatment units
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Before Execution, Inmate Wants to Help Police
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Investigator discarded evidence in '04 inmate death
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Death row inmate writes letter to media disputing key facts in case
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Kalaeloa reference pulled from prison bill

Phillips State Prison names new deputy warden of security

Lee Arrendale State Prison houses first female fire team

Prison guard criticized for e-mailing execution poem

Proposal For Private Prison Advances
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Overcrowding at OCCC leaves inmates frustrated

Inmates to record audio textbooks for UNH students

Inmates Get an Education

Lauderdale Co. and Meridian disagree on housing city prisoners

Federal judge orders jail inmates returned to Fulton County

Prisons Department shifting female inmates according to districts

Drug abuse most common offense by work release inmates


February 4


State Supreme Court ponders prisoner rights in DNA testing case
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Prisons proposed for Kalaeloa, Big Island

Smokeless jails rapped

Prisons chief testifies reforms are under way
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Jail converts gym to save on injury costs

Inmates Sickened at Local Jail
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County Board debates shipping inmates

Teenage inmates in jail school

Why Are More Than 1,000 CT Inmates Listed as Escaped

San Quentin inmates in lockdown after riot

Destito wants strict regulations for released inmates


February 3


If this jail is run like a business, customers should worry

Inmates submit paintings for art show and sale

Editorial: Treatment cheaper than building more prisons

The Value of Art

No quick help likely for prisons

Prosecutors Have to Visit Prisons or Be Fired

California Prison Director Under Fire As Senate Investigates Crowded Prisons

Commissioner says he can maintain prisons with governor's budget
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Bill strengthens state control over private prisons if any are built

Inmates' insurers may pay their medical bills

Sheriff allegedly misused inmates

Reforms just beginning, California corrections secretary says
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Job agency gives light to lives of ex-inmates

Wisconsin law won't stop four inmates' hormone treatments
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Polls: Gov Fayose Makes Case for Prison Inmates

Alito supports inmate contesting lethal injection
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Inmate advocates question Nevada Parole Board process
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Scheme lowers bar for prisoners

Prisoners Contribute to Schoolchildren’s Supplies Through ’A Gift for Teaching’ Program

Prisoners help out in bushfire ravaged areas

Prisoners should not have the right to vote
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February 2


A Closer Look: Aging prisoners, a taxpayer's delimma

Patriot Act provision could limit inmate appeals

Omitting prison from county population might reduce grants

Execution uncertain as appeals near exhaustion

Condemned inmate appeals sentence because of justice's comments

Prompt tagging 'could save £9.3m'

Scandal of Philippines child prisoners

Helping the girls get out ... and stay out

'Barbaric' trips endured by pregnant prisoners
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Ethiopia: Federal prisons administration set to safeguard inmates' human rights

Indiana prisons look for answers to inmate suicides

With fewer inmates, next prison crunch years off
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Bali inmates beg for mercy
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Bill would sallow married inmates conjugal visits
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Inmates Help With Rita Cleanup
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Rikers Island Captain Faces Charges He Sexually Abused Inmates
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Federal inmates can't smoke indoors
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Prisoners sue for $1 million

Assn trying to help inmates atone, reform


February 1


Inmate's art brings color to Pelican Bay

Death row inmate granted new trial

Supreme Court halts Florida execution
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Prisoners learning wrong thing

County jails may get more money for state prisoners

Prisoner abuse trial begins

Overcrowding, underfunding make for dangerous situations in state prisons

‘Systematic’ racist attacks cause investigation into UK prisons
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Concern focuses on packed, violent prisons

Topinka says prisons getting too crowded

Blagojevich eyes fast data on DNA
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Topinka criticizes governor on prisons

Coconino County inmates favor substance abuse treatment

Mentally ill inmates face more time in county jails
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Inmates threaten to refuse food in protest

Call to reprieve mentally ill death row inmates
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Federal inmates have to butt out

Prison census becomes controversial

Kaharoa Residents Oppose Youth Prison

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