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 August 2004

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Major Prison Reform Eludes Lawmakers

Georgia Frees Innocent Man After 17 Years in Prison

Bredesen exonerates man who spent 22 years in prison

Families set to boycott prison phone costs

Breaking News: 8/31/04 Former prisoner Coney plans $25M lawsuit against Angelina County

Mismanagement holds taxpayers prisoner

California may use LexisNexis kiosks in prisons

SC to hear case on woeful condition of prisoners

Board votes early parole hearings for inmates

Inmates Build a Sense of Purpose While Creating a Playhouse Entry

Staff shortages at jail present public risk: Report

Act 309 inmates help cater party

State Prisons Filling Up Again

'Don't Use Prisons for Cruelty' Justice Minister Warns

Prison system 'dehumanises' inmates

Minster hopes to teach jail inmates that hope remains

Clinton inmates foot bill for higher walls

Prison a home for children

Animal Rights Group Seeks To Stop McAlester Prison Rodeo

Juvenile inmates learn to chill out with yoga

Boise State DNA Expert Helps Exonerate Inmate

Wrongfully convicted man free after 40 years behind bars

Reforms recommended for prisons

Prisoners Can Vote in Upcoming Local Polls

Program for prisoners aims to assist parents

State orders controversial alteration to prison statue

Feds probe isle youth prison

Inmates win award for cemetery restoration

Prisoners Take Boy Scout Oath Behind Bars

Reporters would get better access to inmate interviews under bill

Cleared inmate soon could be free

Pleas to replace women's prison

Ruling Gives Several Oklahoma Prison Inmates Right To Have Kosher Food

Board of Corrections May Require Inmates to Pay for Medical Expenses

Inmates take part in work release program

Supreme Court upholds amended habitual offender law

Federal Bureau of Prisons Adds Street Memoir to Banned Book List

The creation of a prison-industrial complex is one the most disturbing things going on.

The Real Price of Prisons

The Crime Wave That Wasn't

Prisons 'asking for big trouble'

Zps Embarks On HIV Campaigns for Inmates

State returning prison inmates from Virginia

Prison program helps inmates blossom, learn parenting skills

Inmates still pack local jail

Lowest bidder to treat inmates

Rio Inmates Compete In Beauty Pageant

Inmate tests show 85pc use drugs

Sex For Cigarettes: Local Inmate Confirms Trade

New record set in inmate numbers

Prison Fellowship Doing Splendid Job

State returning prison inmates from Virginia

More Blacks Going to Prison in 17 Key Election States

Inmate calls add up

Rehabilitated inmate should be granted clemency, lawyers argue

Program teaches inmates to read

Promise Keepers, inmates reunite

Prisons not the priority: Rann

Overcrowded prisons getting worse

Mandatory audit for state prisons

State will audit private prisons after last month's riot

Mice, lice and crisis in women's prison

Inmates raise funds for programs at LEC

Demolition starts on old Leavenworth prison

Prison program aims to help inmates develop faith, skills to make it in outside world

Aging inmates cost taxpayers

Georgia trying new faith-based program at state prisons

Federal prisons in Minnesota feel squeeze

Harrison inmates clean up at awards

Inmates say AIDS education is lacking

Magistrates and Ministers — A Case for Faith-based Prison Reform

Court OKs DNA tests for federal parolees

Innocence lost

Infamous injustice

Inmate families paying high phone rates in California jails

Massachusetts judge orders inmate fees to stop

Prisoner with TB spreads disease

Program helps inmate fathers rebuild shattered families

Female prisoners glow in Rio jail beauty contest

LA man wrongfully convicted of murder is released from prison

Assam prison turns venomous criminals into society saving citizens

Special Scout program serves prison inmates

State prison officials cut prisoners' visiting hours to free up space

Restaurant aims to give inmates a lock on careers

Local inmates involved in storm cleanup

Inmate files to stop rodeo

Iowa Prisons Face Layoffs

Prisons not acting to stop sex misconduct

Grants awarded to programs for inmates’ children

Inmates: Sex acts happened in jail

San Quentin: 3 inmates win state fair competition

Tutwiler inmate claims DOC officers harrassed her after testimony

Inmate numbers growing more slowly

Magistrate's prison rape comments 'inappropriate'

Senator blasts 'spineless' Assembly for killing prison probe bill

Schwarzenegger Is Posturing on Prisons

Reports: Juvenile prisons still have violence problems

Prisoner bags literary award

Judge orders inmate examined by doctor of his choice

Bulging prisons too full for more

Deadly neglect in prisons must stop

Inmates train dogs, learn lessons

Hundreds of inmates provide disaster relief

Officials await reimbursement rate for federal inmates

Inmate 'fled jail to kick habit'

Tooth pulled, an inmate dies

Prisons chief denies release plans

Time for state to act on inmates in nursing homes

Uganda: 40 Percent of Inmates Die of TB

Inmates With Medical Problems Sleep On Floors

Jail inmate medical expenses rising

Schwarzenegger lauds prison watchdog he once derided

Now Memory Boxes Bring Ray of Hope to Prison Inmates

Private prisons: You get what you pay for

When inmates create art, should they profit?

Inmates help rescue guard taken hostage in standoff

Prison Inmates Start Writing Group

Inmate going on trial a second time for a killing in 1968

Inmate artists transform jail

Ex-inmate to sue county jail

County to mull budget change for inmate care

State fought to keep innocent man in prison

Prison labor proposal arouses some concerns

Guards, inmates reunite at Alcatraz

LA County inmates with medical problems sleep on jailhouse floors

L.A. inmates allowed trial over claims of being jailed too long

Judging the value of life

Jailers rebut inmates' gripes

Prisons try to thwart recurring offenses

Chaplains, religious volunteers bring hope to inmates

County OK with advocacy-group's prison visit

Prison drug use and violent assault on the rise: report

Officials say town will be better informed about prison incidents

Women's prison to help Chicopee

Former Pickaway prison doctor sues

Get out and vote: even ex-inmates pushed to poll

Many Local Officials Now Make Inmates Pay Their Own Way

US prison inmates pay for room and board

Judge rejects inmate suit over prison display of American flag

Arkansas drops effort to execute Mexican inmate whose attorneys say he is retarded

Online sales of Death Row inmate's art investigated

Inmate Loses Court Bid to Grow Hair

Inmate sues to keep his dreadlocks

Georgia youth prisons chief resigns

Swedish prisons ban Playstation games

Union raps report on prisons

Inmate rebuilds life after freed from death row

Inmate's award should go to victim's family, says lawmaker

Inmate cry: 'My God, will you help me?'

Prisons' Keystone Docs

Report: Staff cuts at federal prisons in Pa.

Region's prisons are among worst in UK

Ticking-off for prisoner fundraiser

Prisoner's right to vote attacked again!

Lotto win prisoner angers papers

Prisoner allowed to go for a drive

Ryan Matthews is Free: Death Row Prisoner Convicted as Juvenile Exonerated After 5 Yrs in Jail

Former death row prisoner sues prosecutors

Possible Layoffs Loom Over Iowa Prisons

Community corrections is taking the load off prisons

Prison lottery rules in spotlight

Fresh concern over prison safety

Mentoring grant aids children of prisoners

Initiative could help inmates with benefits

2 ex-inmates demand damages

Mending their lives: Inmates teach, learn

Lawmakers hear from inmates, prison workers

D.C. Jail Joins Trend, Bans Smoking by Inmates, Staff

Guv to face inmates

Court OKs Inmates' Suit

Inmates pursue lawsuits

Free to be with friends

Golf Course Shaped by Prisoners' Hands

New group to ease prisoners back into society

DNA Exonerates 22-Year Inmate

Former death row prisoner sues prosecutors

Jail staff, inmates both have the blues

Inmates maintain cemetery

Budget cuts may put strain on jail

Groups launch vote drive for former inmates

Legislative panel hears first-hand from inmates

Guard acquitted of inmate brutality

'Three Strikes' Laws Hurt Low Income, Minority Men

An unfair charge

Go to jail, get to vote - in Maine or Vermont

Tuscany: Ruling for equal rights health for inmates

Inmates Strike Over Torture

Day Reporting Program keeps inmates In jobs, out of jail

Inmates Leaving Prison with HIV

Federal appeals court rules Florida death row not too hot

Lower Jail Population Helpful For Several Reasons

Select prisoners in EBR Parish garner work-release privileges

Give prisoners' children hope!

Maryland Prisons Adopt Religious Program From Book

It Happens Here

Report: Response To Inmate Uprising Had Mistakes

Ex-death row inmate, saved by court ruling, draws life sentence

Inmate's injuries hurt budget

Private Operators of U.S. Prisons Challenged

Evaluating recent riot, private prison system

Group wants better conditions for teens in prison

Prison riot reaction faulted

Court upholds jail camera ban

Inmates Learn Marketable Skills

County should build prison

Are Sweden's prisons too humane?

Aids activists for safe sex in prisons

South Carolina prisons home to many failed by state’s school system

Walter Cronkite | Prisons needlessly overpopulated with drug offenders

Prisoner, girlfriend create inseparable bond - with glue

Prison warden returns to his job

Lawmakers told prison growth didn't meet projection

Inmates get hepatitis B in prison, but cash not available for vaccinations

High Hepatitis B Rates in Prisons Are Preventable

Youth Prisons to Stop Use of Extended Isolation

Prisons helping more inmates earn GEDs despite cuts

Overcrowding chronic at prisons in Vacaville

State's prisons may escape a court takeover

Bill seeks to ban prisoners from voting

Prisoners' food 'inadequate'

State works to return all inmates by 2005

President offers amnesty to well-behaved inmates

Treating inmates for botulism briefly wiped out antitoxin in West

Panel decides to hold off on jail fee for inmates

Appeals court: release prisoner

Prison staff 'ignored screams of dying inmate'

Inmate's Family Says Prison Failed To Inform Of Illness

Kenya: Prison Warders Dying Despite Aids Awareness

Death row inmate runs e-business

Anguish of Port Harcourt Prison Inmates

South Dakota company will cook meals for Cerro Gordo inmates

Taking Back the Prisons

Prisons director warns of crisis if voters repeal tax increase

RFID in prisons - does anyone care?

Concern as prisons fill up, police cells used

Inside California’s Prisons: Interview with a Woman Corrections Officer

Southeast Tech Ponders Prisoner Training Program

Judge dismisses prisoners' fight against slopping out

New jail plans driven by money, claim prison officers

20,000 inmates in danger of starvation

Mentoring opportunity for children of inmates

Florida prisoners pay for spending accounts

Growing List of Prisons Installing Legal Research Kiosks for Inmates
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