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 October 2004
Jon Yoder - News Editor

News You Can Use

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Prisoner's Mandatory Life Sentence Overturned

Former court officer sentenced for sex acts with prisoner

Prisoner condemns "tyranny" of government in open letter

Giving VOICE to county inmates

Inmate Earns Top Award

'Black 14' member decries large minority population in prisons

Blunkett Opens Prisoners-to-Plumbers Training Centre

Vermont inmates tell lawmakers why they rioted at Kentucky prison

Dance gets personal for Graney, prison inmates

City Council Cuts Water Supply to Harare Central Hospital, Prison

Condoms Issued To Prisoners

Federal help for former prisoners

Prisoners To Pay For Rides To Work-Release Jobs

Man sentenced to life in prison for selling drugs

Prison report will add to Legislature's agenda

Paedophile: Prison changed me

Report says prison staff should be trained to handle mentally ill

Inmate sues Dept. of Correction

U.S. policy on prisoner abuse called two-faced

A Released Female Prisoner: Israeli Prisons Sign of Humiliation

Chilean communists sue Bush over prisoner tortures

Ex-Saudi prisoner awaits decision on torture appeal

Homegrown Prisons How one entrepreneur is locking up a niche—and helping rehabilitate criminals

Governments urged to start prison needle exchanges

Prison inmates on the path to redemption

Court: Mentally ill prisoners can be forced drugs

County inmates do their time - and civic duty

Inmates File Suit In Prison Riot

Inmates prepare for life on outside by saving classic cars behind bars

Texas inmate executed after reprieve lifted

Doctors cite alarming rise in hep C, HIV in prisons; call for needle exchange

Prisons will go cold turkey on Monday

STATE PRISONS: Ban on media cameras makes abuses more likely

Ten months in jail and 300 lashes for Christian prisoner O'Connor

Creative Arts to Rehabilitate Prisoners

Kenya to release thousands of prisoners

Juvenile Prisoners' Mental State Shouldn't Be Ignored

80 prisoners choke to death in Thai trucks

Minister: 40 prisoners to a cell

New Cambodian king to pardon prisoners

China releases prisoner figures

"Farhan Al-Zubi" the oldest prisoner all over the world started his 35th year in Syrian jails

Native Woman Hopes to Help Children of Prison Inmates

Dirty, Vandalised Prison 'Has Failed to Improve'

Dallas judge throws party as she sends man to prison for life for assaulting girlfriend

South Africa: US Funds Prisons Anti-Aids Campaign

Judge Grants Reprieve to Texas Inmate

Inmate thrown into lockdown over legal ad wins suit

Inmates equipped for new life

‘Government to help women and juvenile inmates’

ECK wants inmates to vote in elections

Pending Legislation Addresses Mental Health Treatment in Prisons

A prisoner's fight for survival in a murky conflict

WWII POW honored for secret work

TAJIKISTAN: Controversy over suspension of death penalty

Former prisoners find support with nonprofit group

LAPD to Investigate How Wrong Man Was Sent to Prison

PA Department of Corrections Awarded Prison Rape Elimination Grant

Prison Inmates Make Video for Students

US Donates R3.8m for SA Prison AIDS Program

Former Prisoner Spreads Message to Local Students

Over 30% of Zimbabwe's Inmates Have HIV

Bishop Does Religious Work with Inmates

Turkmen Leader to Free 9,000 Prisoners

Argentine Says Free 'All Political Prisoners'

Kindness and Preparation for Inmates

Project May Find Innocence of Inmates

Former Inmate Sues County

IN Prison Guards Charged For Attacking Inmate

Death Row Inmate's Attorneys File Lawsuit

Grant Helps Prisoners' Children

Prisoners Throw Themselves at the Book

Correctional workers punished in inmate's death

Court orders new trial for inmate in 1987 prison slaying

Prison Officer Wins 'Rub Downs' Sex Bias Claim

Israeli Prison Services Further Humiliate Palestinian Prisoners

Prisoners embrace jail education programs

HIV-Positive Prisoners Find Freedom a Mixed Blessing

Inmates at several jails registered to vote

Terror inmates' legal rights upheld

Latimer County Sheriff Allegedly Had Sex, Threatened Female Inmates

Nearly half of all the women arrested in San Diego County in 2003 were high on methamphetamine

Judge rejects claims of prisoner abuse at Bayside

Prisoner payouts for right violations could cost taxpayer £162m

KYRGYZSTAN: Gay convicts' rights abused in prisons

Fighting AIDS in America's prisons

State of Jordan prisons deplored

Philanthropist Donates To Prisons Service

Cisco brings IT skills to UK prisoners

Clergy asked to aid former prisoners' transition to freedom

Exhibition on plight of political prisoners tomorrow

Prisons 'holding back learning'

Reform group welcomes prisoner voting moves

Sheriff's Office added to inmate's suit

Jail inmates being put to work picking up highway trash

Dane, Racine County Jail Inmates Register To Vote Absentee

King Mohammed VI dedicates training center for women inmates in Casablanca

Girls' Prison Taking Steps To Increase Inmates' Safety

Federal grants promise treatment, support for ex-inmates

Jailed Suspects 'Fed Like Dogs'

Storm over Prison's Handling of Immigration Detainees

The Northern Ireland Prison Service was at the centre of a fresh storm tonight over the treatment of immigration detainees

Women's Prison Attacked by Human Rights Body

High Court to Take up Prisoner Shackling Case

Youth Prisoners to Receive Impartial Support

Convicts Counsel Pupils: Avoid Life of Crime

Testimony Begins in Trial of Two Deputies for Abusing Inmate

Jail Deputy Fired, Charged with Planting Contraband on Inmate

UK Prisons Challenged to Be More Family Friendly

Mexican Inmates Blessed by Bishop's Visit

State Prison Used to Increase Treatment of Mentally Ill

Inmates Deprived of Meals

Inmates Request DNA Testing

Inmates Can Be Match for Hard to Fill Jobs

Released: Convicts Prepare for Work World

State Prison Inmate's Law Suit Stands

Addicted Inmates May Get Needles

Inmate Accounts Frozen Over Alleged Money Laundering

SF Attorney Could Face 10 Years For Defrauding Poor Clients

Teenager Armando Raya Entered the Razor Wire-Topped Gates of the California Youth Authority...

Court to hear disputes over prisoners' religions

Arakan Party Demands Release of Burmese Prisoners

Army Pathologist Concedes Error in Prison Abuse Case

Bush Bill Allowing Torture Blasted

Families of State Inmates Decry High Phone Charges

DNA Exonerates Man After 19 Years

Turkish Prison Protest Ends - Guards were taken hostage

Jailer Held for Forcible Sodomy of Female Inmate

Justice System Punishes Inmates Regardless of Innocence or Guilt

Medical Director Steps Down Over Alleged Inmate Abuse

Former Inmate Now An Advocate

Ex-Inmates' Suit Offers View Into Sexual Slavery in Prisons

Muslim Faith Draws Converts From NZ Prisons

Mistrial In Assault Case of Former Prison Guard

Inmates Renovate Bikes for Kids

Palestinians Held Captive By Israeli Forces Suffer Wretched Conditions

Local Prisons 'A Breeding Ground for Rapists'

Graft Reigns in Prisons, Says VP

Prisons chief ordered to check Jalosjos' health condition

Inmates' advocates challenge Arpaio's abortion roadblocks

Sexual harassment complaint 'false', say Aurobindo inmates

Registration drive encourages jail inmates to participate in voter registration

Inmates prepped to succeed when freed

California Blasted for Poor Prison Health Care

Mandela's Long-Lost Prison Notes to Be Released

Explanation wanted over lack of inquiry into inmate assaults

Jailer is accused in sex assault of inmate

State: DNA should free inmate

Inmate dies in county jail bed

AIMS criticised over prisoner suicide

Prisoner demands case records

McNairy officials' arrest means jail loses $360 a day

Property group calls for proposed prison upgrade

Authorities are debating the necessity of conjugal visits, but are they not seeing the forest for the trees?

Ipcc to Probe Prisoner's Death: sixth prisoner to die at the jail in the past year

Prisoner survived the cruel sea

'Conjugal rights for prisoners may end abuse'

Prisoners to help fight fires

Three-strikes measure might free many more prisoners

Prelates Visit Prisoners and the Sick in Guadalajara, "People Who Reflect the Crucified Face of Christ"

Former leader goes from prisoner to poet

Jury is picked for Montco guard accused of sexual assault on two prisoners

Evangelist takes message of hope to the prisons

Mahalapye Prisons donates to disadvantaged

Felons not housed in state prisons are allowed to vote

Crowded prisons top issues at annual convention

Prison works, say the Tories. Alexander Reynolds explains why he is determined to be banged up in as many as will have him

Prison art comes up from the cells

Opponents seek anti-prison ordinance

546 inmates got out early

Making Mockery of the Rule of Law

Witness to an Execution

Doctor describes visit to women prisoners dying from AIDS

Law professor Susan Rutberg returns to criminal defense work at the Hall of Justice and finds that the underside has grown darker

D.C. Jail Stay Ends in Death For Quadriplegic Md. Man

Federal Court Orders Improved Conditions and Medical Care for Women in Alabama's Prisons

Six Prisoners Punished Working for Better Treatment

Silencing the Cells: Mass Incarceration and Legal Repression in U.S. Prisons

Study Suspects Thousands of False Convictions

Incarceration is not an equal opportunity punishment

Links Between Prison And Aids Affecting Blacks Inside And Out

Is the World Finally Waking up to HIV/AIDS in Prisons? A report from the XV International AIDS Conference

Women Prisoners with HIV An open letter from a prison doctor

Idea to cut jail meals stirs pot

Prison report criticizes Indian Affairs bureau Mismanagement, overcrowding cited

VA Board votes to adopt rules to help offenders continue education

U.S. private prison operator CCA sees rosy future: overcrowding, rising crime

MN prisons running out of money, room

Inmate's article tells story of "prisons of learning"

US investigation at Maryland prison predated Iko's death

Prison works, say the Tories. Alexander Reynolds explains why he is determined to be banged up in as many as will have him

Prison art comes up from the cells

Praying your way out of the prison of self

Supreme Court to Review Inmate Freedom Law

Condemned Inmate Maintains Innocence As Execution Nears

Inmate tells story of "prisons of learning"

Genesee County considering cutting inmate meals to shave costs

Governor to Investigate Sheriff in Inmate Labor Case

CHRAJ Crusades for Prisoners' Rights

Horrendous Sentences For Simple Drug Use In America

Judge: County may violate inmate population cap

Supreme Court addresses unsettled prison sentences on opening day

Autopsy Shows Kenyan Inmates Beaten to Death

Two-thirds of Russian prisoners seriously ill

Warders find themselves on wrong side of law

Our Prisons Are Death Traps

"Coming Home" movie features prison inmates reintegrating into society

HIV/Aid: Group Sensitizes Female Prisoners

5,500 Bangladeshi, Indian, Filipino prisoners to be released from Saudi jails in Ramadan

Editorial opinion - Compo plan turns prisoners into victims

Inmates Voting

Sit-in staged in Nablus in solidarity with Palestinian inmates

Prison, pardon, parenthood

Inmates Fight Fire in Beaver County

Falsely accused death row inmate exonerated after 17 years: Judge says authorities cheated

Inmate helps save deputy from stabbing attack by convict

10th Circuit considers challenge to restricting inmate subcriptions

Youth Prisons: A Better Plan

Freed Death-Row Inmate Savors Freedom, Slams Bush

Warden Loses Job Over Naked Inmate Flap

Former Death Row Inmate Takes Resentencing Deal

Editorial opinion - Compo plan turns prisoners into victims

Reforms And the Prisoner's Lot in Nigeria

With New Sentencing Legislation Pending in Congress, Church Leaders Urge an End to Mandatory Minimums

Inmates used in suicide intervention

Prison inmate may go free after 17 years

Orange County Begins Drive To Register Inmates To Vote

For inmates, helping goes both ways

Speakers try to reach inmates with message

DA says inmate should be freed

Court overturns inmate's conviction

Prison charged with failing to protect youngest inmates

Schwarzenegger vetoes bill easing media access to inmates

Mexico: Gay inmates may get conjugal visits

Artistes to perform in support of Yellow Ribbon Project

Vermont City Helps Prisoners Fight Recidivism

Prison: Change the Mindset

PM allows yet more prisoner compo claims

Weekend jail to let inmates keep jobs

Inmates complain to Ombudsman

Options sought for mentally ill inmates

Governor Signs Bill Banning Tobacco in State Prisons

Michigan prisons get $1.2M to test for hepatitis C

No easy solutions to inmate overcrowding crisis

State seeks monitor for Kentucky prison

Prisoner Describes Court Cell Ordeal

Relatives of Dead Inmate to Sue State

John Paul II Calls for Humane Treatment of Prisoners

Kenya prison conditions slammed

Women prisoners 'kept in poverty'

Crowded Utah Co. Jail Releases Prisoners

Prisons Fail to Heal Healthcare

Thirty guards fired from Louisiana juvenile prisons this year

State prisons see rise in minority population

Zimbabwe inmates to work on farms

Inmates Help Cleanup Garretson

Doing quiet time: Practicing yoga helps inmates feel better

Profiting off prisoners

Scripture, Structure, Support

Ex-prisoner says Risdon food simply sickening

Counseling unavailable to prisoner

Failure to sack 'racist' prison staff condemned

Corrections board OKs flat budget for prisons
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