Get prisoners into open jails, governors told
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Governors told to move as many inmates as possible to open jails in response to prison overcrowding
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.
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The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.
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Hundreds of inmates of Welsh prisons could be safely managed in the community, it is claimed.
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Federal and state investigators questioned Nevada prison inmates Friday about suspicious letters &#151; rigged with a match to flare when the envelope was opened &#151; that were sent from the prison to several governors.
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Doctors' leaders warn of the potential health risks of putting inmates in police or court cells.
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Young prisoners should be given better access to their families, Cherie Booth QC has said.
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California's corrections secretary said Friday that the state will create a commission to review sentencing guidelines for felons, potentially a key step in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to relieve prison overcrowding.
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The government's 'scramble to build new prisons' threatens to move the UK towards a system of 'large-scale penal containment' which would mean worse as well as more jails, the chief inspector of prisons warns today
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Letters bound for governors' offices and rigged to ignite when opened were intercepted in Virginia and West Virginia, bringing to 18 the number of governors who have received similar letters in the past week.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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Plans to stop youngsters with convict fathers from following them into a life of crime are unveiled.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
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Authorities have intercepted envelopes that were rigged to ignite when opened and sent to the governors of California and New Mexico. They are among 20 such mailings sent to governors around the country and received since last week.
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Prison officials and Home Secretary John Reid will meet to draw up plans to deal with prison overcrowding.
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Inmates are carrying out vendettas inside prison walls, planning escapes and running their outside-world drug empires &#151; even at Mexico's highest-security penitentiaries, prompting Mexico City's mayor to call for the army to intervene.