Articles, News, Updates and Reports

Articles & News

• UN says 104 teenagers released from prison in Somaliland

• Reintegration Movie Review: I've Loved You So Long (2008)

• SAMHSA Awards $11.8 Million in Grants

• Police prosecutors given 14-day ultimatum

• Ohio Congressional Candidate Marcia Fudge Opens Up At City Club
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• Lawsuit filed to protect farmland

• Newark eco-program aims to rebuild lives

• Rev. Lasaro of Fiji seeks jail aid review

• The jail where inmates serve haute cuisine to paying guests
• State offers $100M to fund San Mateo jail
• UK Conservative party would end early automatic release for prisoners
• Supportive Housing Not Always Welcoming to Ex-Prisoners
• County may still receive jail funds
• CT Community Group is Proposing Help for Former Prison Inmates
• Madison picked for 're-entry' prison
• Council asked to offer resolution to support re-entry facility
• Monterey County seeks more time to select re-entry site
• Ghana's Nsawam prisoners go to school
• Convicted Sex Offenders Finding Homes Near Campus
• Coalition offers faith, hope to newly released inmates
• New program reintegrating sex offenders into their communities
• Kent resettlement jail 'not effective'
• Battle Brews Over Trading Jail Money for State Prison
• Yolo in line for prison funds -- if new facility is approved
• Ulster County Re-entry Task Force Golden opportunity
• Singapore bosses offer jobs to ex-cons
• Tri-county partnership plan for prisoner re-entry facility approved
• State jail funds tied to inmate reentry program
• St. Mary's Inmates Complete Culinary Classes
• Sheriff DiPaola lauds SJC ruling on use of GPS
• Prerelease board delays vote on housing sex offenders
• State Grant obtained for Oneida County Re-Entry Task Force
• Waterloo, IA sheriff candidates talk of rebuilding dialogue
• UAE reform of prisons to focus on inmate job training
• Uganda's Byabashaija blames prison congestion on courts
• State Changes Tune on County-Run Jail Facility
• Remand facility announcement shocks BC city mayor
• Re-entry prison views are aired
• Zimbabwe deny bail as courts out of receipts
• Celeb Waksal in re-entry
• Santa Barbara county jail project moves forward
• Suicide attempts at Scotland women's prison have doubled
• Embracing bracelets in Halifax
• Durban, SA to support prison pilot project
• Efforts to help inmates move back into society in NY
• UK prison criticised for overcrowding
• Santa Barbara County's re-entry prison plan gets bigger
• California's CDCR finds re-entry prison site unsuitable
• Nigeria's Bar Association wants “holding charge” dropped to ease prison congestion

• Singapore prisoner numbers at new low

• Clean jail, clean start

• Ex-con in South LA pushes for re-entry facility

• City holding job fair today for ex-offenders

• Howard promoted to director of CourtCare of Mississippi

• Houston to Help Ex-Inmates Fit Back into Community

• Gov. Granholm appoints new state council to improve prisoner re-entry

• Ghana court acts on bail demand by man on remand 10 year

• Bahamas electronic Monitoring Legislation

• Another try for parolee ID plan

• Living With HIV in Uganda's Prison Cells

• Alachua County Sheriff Darnell to build reentry program

• Trinidad - 500 more prison beds coming

• Australia - complaints force unit tenants out

• Collin County, Texas Convicts Cut Costs Cultivating Crops

• Kenyan Prison officers called ‘threat to national security’

• US county jail population decreases

• In Scotland - Remand reform

• USA'S Cumberland County plans to identify repeat offenders at jail

• Scottish prisons reform direction

• I was all out to reform Kenyan jails, says Awori

• Local efforts seek to break the repeat offender pattern for juveniles
• Couple helps Dismas House residents reconnect with society
• Re-integration amendments considered in Tblisi, Georgia
• MAPping the way to a crime-free life
• In Ghana - attitudes towards prisoners is dangerous to society
• UK prisoner mental health: From porridge to Prozac
• NZ city cells fill up as prison overflows
• Macau government seeks approval for tougher drug crimes
• Getting inmates on right track in N. Dakota
• State revamping parole rules
• Drug Court offers alternative to jail
• Jailed Women Graduate from Albemarle Reentry Program
• Caught in Singapore legal web
• Can New York Break Its Incarceration Habit?
• Re-Entry AfterCare offers advice on hiring felons
• Canada's prison statistics are sobering

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Audio Broadcasts:

• Adjusting to Life After Prison

• States in Budget Crunch Consider Releasing Prisoners

• Talk About It: States Consider Freeing Prisoners Early

Blogs

• Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead!
• 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

Publication

2008

• Vol. 2, No. 8
• Vol. 2, No. 7
• Vol. 2, No. 6
• Vol. 2, No. 5
• Vol. 2, No. 4
• Vol. 2, No. 3
• Vol. 2, No. 2
• Vol. 2, No. 1

2007

• Vol. 1, No. 10
• Vol: 1, No. 9
• Vol. 1, No. 8
• Vol. 1, No. 7
• Vol. 1, No. 6
• Vol. 1, No. 5
• Vol. 1, No. 4
• Vol. 1, No. 3
• Vol. 1, No. 2
• Vol 1, No 1

Trends, Reports, Opinions

• Faith groups spreading the word on the wings
• Life after prison in Saudi Arabia: Roadblocks to social re-entry
• Prison is meant for reform not punishment -Addo Kufuor
• Jail project to help lead national offender TJC effort
• Defense Attorneys say bails lead to overcrowding
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• Could Felons Actually Impact the Presidential Race?
• In Canada candidates voice support for Warkworth Institution
• UK prison governors to get bonuses for lower recidivism
• Second chances in Hawaii: Easing inmates into society
• Philadelphia will refocus prisoner program
• Bills will send more prisoners to state jails
• Felons who've served their time may vote again
• Disturbing Trend Revealed
• True details of AB900 coming out
• In Our View: Sheriff Tracy's principled stand
• Editorial: Yolo prison deal a model for state
• Michigan pilot aims to cut jail crowds
• An exclusive insight into NZ Parole Board hearings
• A new day for Fiji's Prisons
• Yemen relief center helps female ex-prisoners
• Incarceration Rates Shaping Russian Life and Moscow's Image
• Charity bids to run new prison
• Bahamians Deserve Better
• PH, Nigeria partners for prisoner rehabilitation program
• State Grant obtained for Oneida County Re-Entry Task Force
• Supreme Judicial Court rejects ruling to rejail convicts in GPS program
• Three counties' sheriffs backing re-entry prison in Paso Robles
• Overcrowding causing health havoc in Kumasi Prisons
• Veterans in state prisons caring for nation's fallen
• Goal: Keep mentally ill out of prison
• BC, Canada balancing justice
• Bahamian US Deportees Add to Crime Woes, says Minister
• Athletics keep inmates busy
• Florida ranks poorly in mental health spending
• New Haven, CT employers not excited about City Hall's re-entry plan
• Nigerian judge summarily releases 10 prison inmates
• Singapore prisoner numbers at new low
• Minnesota radio man responds to pope’s urging
• A ‘discount’ in justice - Insights from down under
• UK offenders 'rewarded' for being tagged on bail
• Drop tasty carrots here
• Legal reform by Lagos State, Nigeria
• Dutch jail cells emptied by community service
• In Scotland - Remand reform
• Scottish prison reform changes in the works
• Kenyan prisons reform challenges
• Bahamas Prisons Report Details
• Words we use in reentry
• Canada's prison statistics are sobering
• Making Triple Time Served History?
• Humanitarian disaster behind Kenya's prison crisis
• Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead!
• New Zealand DOC Offender Volumes Report
• Teaching ex-offenders about voting rights
• Second Chance Act made a law by Bush in US
• Country Report on Trinidad &Tobago
• Country Report on Jamaica
• Country Report on Bahamas
• New public safety czar's broad role
• US paints bleak picture of Human rights violations in the Caribbean
• Second Chance Act Passes USA Congress
• Mystery over identity of two prisoners
• ‘Bribe’ for foreign prisoners to return home triples to £3,000
• Pew Charitable Trusts Report - Public Safety Performance Project
• Reform proposal for UK public sector prisons
• Employment and former offenders
• Statistics on US Women Offenders