Prison population hits all-time high
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Jail system could implode in two weeks, says union.
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Nearly 100 murders have been committed by offenders on probation in the past two years, Home Office figures show.
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The number of violent criminals freed under  supervision who are charged with a further offence has increased by 36%.
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Hundreds of federal police and soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison Friday amid reports of a planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between two reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
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A record 7 million people -- one in every 32 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year,  a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.
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The number of hunger-striking  Palestinians in Israeli jails has almost doubled to 2,900 in  the week since the protest was launched, the Prisons Service  said on Sunday.
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The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation, the chief inspector warns.
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Media & professional: Number of inmates killing themselves is on the rise for first time since 2002, says chief inspector.
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Gang culture took over one of the UK's largest jails, the Chief Inspector of Prisons reports.
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Business in the gambling halls of Biloxi, Miss., has reached all-time highs in recent months, and a similar story has been unfolding in New Orleans.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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By Cassie Tarpley, The Shelby Star, N.C.  Jun. 24--SHELBY -- Each year, more than 22,000 inmates are released from North Carolina's state prison system. Ninety-eight percent of the inmates in prison today will be released in the future.
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Overcrowding in jails is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.
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Up to 1,200 "non-dangerous" offenders walk out of prison up to 18 days early.
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Figures seen by the BBC show that self-inflicted deaths in English prisons reached a new monthly high in August.