Articles, News and Updates

News

• Making Triple Time Served History?
• Canada remand laws and Mathieu
• Life after doing time - one woman's efforts in Australia
• Ionia jail attempts to educate parolees to keep them from returning
• Move to clear backlog of juvenile cases
• Malaysia: teens should be put in rehabilitation facilities
• Zambian death row inmates plead for deliverance
• Program aims to help parolees
• Scandal of prisoners from UK's Ford Prison going free
• Grant for Orange County (CA, USA) jail has string attached
• Yolo County approves $30M for jail expansion
• Afghan prisoners given medicine
• Prison suicides show no sign of abating
• UK man remanded in prison at own request
• India modern prison complex for women convicts in Tiruchi
• Kenyan jails back to Normal As Jailers Resume Duty
• In Kenya 3 inmates die as warders strike
• ‘Progress’ being made at UK prison
• Prisons chief says minimal work is needed to get ex-boys school ready
• Young released killer needs 'fair go', prison fellowship says
• Pain of parenting from behind Kenyan bars
• Teaching ex-offenders about their voting rights
• SA's Tlholoe pays back to society he let down
• Roommates, portable beds on tap for jail in Yarmouth
• Prison is no longer the answer for Kentucky
• PA prison reform finally gets moving
• Joines urges city to hire more of those leaving prison or jail
• New bill will help released offenders
• US Bush makes Second Chance Act law
• Saab signs contract for surveillance systems
• Helping released inmates reconnect
• Innocence Project frees 15th inmate in Dallas County
• Flu keeps jail locked down clogging courts
• Oakland Mayor Dellums insists city trying to hire felons
• Belarus remand prison workers' attitudes towards prisoners
• Fight over remand conditions nears end
• Trinidad residents concerned over prison issues
• Delray Beach hosts its first ex-con job fair
• Two plans aim to reduce recidivism in San Bernadino
• Acting US Orange County Sheriff: Housing state inmates in Orange jail not a threat
• Funding shortfall derails prisoner re-entry program
• New public safety czar's broad role
• Victim reacts to day-release program in UK
• US paints bleak picture of Human rights violations in the Caribbean
• Improving public safety through community based services in Scotland
• Improve jails, Fiji party says
• Meeting signals shift in Elm City prison debate
• US- former inmate promotes PMA
• UK - one fifth of murder suspects 'committed crime while on bail'
• Ghana prisoners no longer sleep in shifts
• Inmates easing back into life on the outside
• UK Bosses go to jail
• CT prisoner “Road Map” Set
• India jail stay stretches
• Judge 'in it for long haul' on prison reform
• Mentor tells how to help prisoners' children
• In Nigeria, commission pays 103,000 Naira fines to release 21 inmates
• Trinidad inmates graduate in music
• San Benito county, CA plans jail expansion
• Second Chance Act Passes USA Congress
• City cool to prison proposal
• Community opposes re-entry facility in their neighborhoods
• A look behind bars at Australia's Canberra jail
• Kansas mother of 5 getting help in re-entry program

Articles & Trends

• Pew Charitable Trusts Report - Public Safety Performance Project
• Reform proposal for UK public sector prisons
• Employment and former offenders
• Statistics on US Women Offenders
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Journal

Blogs

• Department admits jail not coping with remand rate
• Reasonableness in Sentencing
• Tacoma group won't get housing grant
• Treating people like cattle
• Iowa’s Prison Population

• Mystery over identity of two prisoners
• Corrections department says barbeques infrequent
• Canada's justice minister says policy in place but not implemented
• Parole for prison inmates is still coming
• ‘Bribe’ for foreign prisoners to return home triples to £3,000
• Prison Service is letting down Kent jail
• Funding shortfall forces county into jail alternatives
• Indy Mayor formulating ex-offender jobs plan
• Reform plans for UK public sector prisons
• Prison education suffering
• Criminal past isn't deal-killer at I-80 Re-entry Job Fair
• Inside Canberra's humane prison
• Remand centre overcrowding sparks appeal
• Treatments centers: Not a simple solution
• Contra Costa County supervisors vote against prison plan
• Scotland prison boss warns: We are nearing meltdown
• City opens homeless shelter as stopgap
• Reform plans for UK public sector prisons
• Prison education suffering
• Criminal past isn't deal-killer at I-80 Re-entry Job Fair
• Inside Canberra's humane prison
• Remand centre overcrowding sparks appeal
• Treatments centers: Not a simple solution
• Contra Costa County supervisors vote against prison plan
• Scotland prison boss warns: We are nearing meltdown
• City opens homeless shelter as stopgap
• US prison Populations In State, Nation Hit record High
• Inmates bunking next to toilets in overstuffed Burnside jail
• Hungry Prisoners Threaten Revolt
• Outrage over new prison proposal
• New facility may be built for parolees
• Plan to modernise prison hospital
• Lack of Care Leading to 16 Prison Deaths
• "Jail-to-jobs" program announced in Oneida County
• New life for ex-cons
• Forum Tackles Challenges Women Face
• Prison Re-entry Programs Unpopular in Many Bay Communities
• Three to a cell at city prison
• Ban on child prison remands
• Fiji judges to deal with overcrowding
• US federal lead appointed for re-entry jobs creation
• Swedish jail head quits in protest
• Troubled youth facility on horizon
• Moves to free engineer in Gambian Jail
• Go-ahead for waist restraints
• Infamous Georgia prison closing to relieve overcrowding
• Aford chair’ Chipimpha, Sulaimana attains Ph.D.
• Remand centre takes time off sentences
• Car thief re-offends after suspended term
• Doing hard time at Regina jail

• Prisoner re-entry facility planned for Soledad