Jails at crossroads says report
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat  because of overcrowding.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...
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Britain is to build two new prisons as it tries to tackle chronic overcrowding, interior minister John Reid said.
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California's $7.8 billion prison reform plan will only make conditions worse behind bars, two federal judges said in ordering the creation of a judicial panel to recommend better ways to ease prison crowding.
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By Annie Nelson, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 5--HUNTSVILLE -- Jail, sweet jail.   Gone are the video cameras, intercoms and most of the bulletproof glass and bars from the windows. After four months of renovation, the old Randolph County Jail is beginning to look like home.
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More than half of America's prison and jail inmates have symptoms of a mental health problem, the Justice Department estimated Wednesday. But fewer than one-third of those with problems are getting treatment behind bars.
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Between 500 and 600 people die every year in state custody in England and Wales, a report will say.
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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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Overcrowding in jails is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.
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Prison 'outsourcing' is linked to concerns about riots, recidivism, and family hardship.
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Top Pentagon officials and the  military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which  prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a  report released on Tuesday by high-level panel investigating  the military detentions.
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SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) - Canada's public safety minister is promising a closer look at the corrections and parole systems after a recent spate of attacks and murders by convicts who were either living at halfway houses or out on day passes.
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SACRAMENTO A study of drug offenders arrested after a proposition was passed that sent offenders to treatment instead of jail found that nearly half of the offenders were arrested again.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat because of overcrowding.
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New measures offering some persistent offenders an alternative to prison are  unveiled by Cathy Jamieson.
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A "radical" change in prison regimes is needed if inmates are to be ready for life after release, says a report.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells for inmates.