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 April 2004

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.

Tanzania pardons prisoners

Prison effort aims at having inmates make amends, help other

Gangs' reach fills prisons with fear

Prof horrified by mentally ill prisoner's treatment

State aims to reduce prison staffing

Prison employs inmates as guards

Prisoners Are Profiting — From Jail

Tutwiler prison jobs now secure until May 8th

Prisons agency failing the state

An Infusion of Religious Funds In Fla. Prisons

Call for scientific staffing pattern in prisons

Satellite Technology Could Reduce Oklahoma Prison Beds

Prisoners' families to be included in prayer service

Righteous rehabilitation

DNA Evidence Exonerates 328 Prisoners Since 1989

Children of inmates tell prisoners of their own hardships

Ban on Web material in prison mail tossed

Private prisons deal reached

Study: 13.8% in prisons infected with hepatitis C

Public Weighs-in on Vermont Prisons

Editorial: Virginia law must allow prisoners to fully plead their case

Watchdog planned for prisons

More schools, less prisons

Job-starved Perry set to house private prison

Prisoners work with police to clean up highway

Family of prisoner accepts writing award on her behalf

Health Conditions in Prisons Worrisome

Prisons change policy on searching of visitors

Prisons for Girls Plan Slammed

High court to hear case over prison wages

Girl prisoners to be removed from adult jails

Family files $1M lawsuit over prisoner's death

Inmate killings under scrutiny

Inmates find new spark as firefighters

State reaches settlement over prison prizes

Thousands in U.S. prisons not guilty, study suggests

Florida tries gospel outreach to prisons

Freed Texas prisoner speaks about racially charged case

Job fair for Maury prison draws more than 100 unemployed

Mission helps Fla. prisoners

Survey: Many prisoners are unprepared for freedom

Prisons To Change Restraint Policy

Prison board: Arrests ‘validate’ direction taken by new warden

Prison audit raises issues

Last inmates removed from Lima prison

Officials visit Vt. prisoners down South

Prisoners say 'Thank you, Mrs Suzman'

‘Heroic’ Prisoner Held Eligible for Sentence Break

DNA gets Death Row prisoner new trial

Guard accused of sexually assaulting female prisoner

Unregistered Prisoners Demand to Vote

Ministers are urged to create community prisons

Prison destroys inmates' writing

Florida opens 1st faith-based women's prison

Prisons 'Comfort' Blamed for Rising Crime

Security ministry moves to ease overcrowded prisons

Prisons reevaluating one-strike drug test policy

Prisoners vote for solutions to crime

Prisoners may plead guilty to get out of remand centre: professor

Northampton prisoner lawsuit blames burns on overcrowding

State must reimburse counties

Overcrowded Prisons in Alabama

Ruling affirms prison-labor fight is not a legal issue

State prisons need oversight

Prison: Outrage at killers' Easter egg gifts

Report advises against privatization of prison health care in SC

Prisons seek God to aid reform

Civil rights group takes message to inmates with Prison Project

Thousands of tagged prisoners to be freed

Minimum-security prisons bulging

Inside Kenya’s remand prisons

Blumenthal seeks changes to prison inmates' asset law

Inmates are running the prison zoo

Deadline gaffe costs prisons $2 million

Lawmakers want progress at women's prison

Prison suspends writing program

Locking up the right to vote

Marriage to convict tough

Private prisons less accountable

Bill would ease prison overcrowding

Judge keeps man in prison despite recanting witness

Courts to use video conferencing for prisoners

OT costs soar at Alabama's prisons

Federal prisoners will vote for first time in next election

Indian doc set to change lives of prisoners

Prisoners' rights violated

Chief Justice Summons Commissioner of Prisons

AFGE Urges Senate Not to Destroy Prison Program; Federal Prisons Industries Keeps Prisons Safer, Creates Jobs

Prisons' medical expenses assailed

D.C. Center To Help People Released From Federal Prisons

Early releases aren't imminent, prisons spokesman says

Those Emerging from Georgia Prisons Need Life Skills, Support and a Job

Insiders are asked to reform prisons

Inmate paroled after questioning prison drug test results

Bad policy born of tragedy

Gun crime bill under fire; Concerns raised over prison space

Union seeks funding to keep prison open

Budget proposal likely short for housing Louisiana prisoners

1,146 prisoners executed in 2003

Inmates to vote

Death Row inmates end hunger strike

Prisoners to receive advice on drugs and free condoms

New program targets former prisoners

Prisons almost full to bursting point

Prison grays

Prison system ignores budget cuts

Women’s stories prove inmates can thrive outside prison

Prisons chief reviews drug testing of inmates

The Solitary Men

New policy aims to clean up prison mail

Prison standoff cost state $3.6 million

Polling also to take place in prisons

Over 27,000 prisoners registered

Settlement splits $354,000 among 233 former female prisoners

Are Our Prisons Reforming or Breeding Recidivists?

Bucks prison sex detailed in papers

'Community corrections' program might alleviate prison overcrowding

Prisoners learn value of education

Queensland's former chief magistrate has urged business leaders to give ex-prisoners a helping hand.

UK prisoners to get Wi-Fi and laptops

UConn Poll Takes Public Pulse On Prisons

Wyoming Inmates Return to New Prisons, Reintegration

New prisons chief vows a 'more humane' system

Child-prisoner bill defeated
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