Jails at crossroads says report
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says the system is at a crossroads with improvement under threat because of overcrowding.
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Drug dealing and bullying continue to hamper improvements at one of the UK's biggest prisons, inspectors say.
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Proposed prison closings are creating a gnawing uncertainty for residents of several communities in the remote, challenging region of New York where the correction industry is big business.
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. - A pair of shackles. That's all that stood between a Potomac Highlands Regional Jail inmate and potential freedom.  Edward E.
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Tories and penal reformers accuse government of mismanagement of prison system
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Fewer than three prisoners in every 1,000 report they were sexually abused or harassed, but that probably is not the whole story, a government study says.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat because of overcrowding.
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DALLAS, Dec. 16 -- Nearly 10 months after reports of inmate abuse first surfaced, not everyone agrees with claims of progress in reforming the agency that oversees the Texas juvenile prison system.
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An inmate passed through three county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with tuberculosis, possibly infecting nearly 50 other people, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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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Nonviolent drug offenders diverted to rehabilitation programs under Proposition 36 had higher rates of rearrest than those who remained in the criminal-justice system, a UCLA study released today says.
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&quot;Our jails are overcrowded, the police are overworked, and we&#39;re going to have to make room in the prisons for teenage file-sharers?
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Official inquiry finds evidence of prisons where terrorism suspects could be interrogated.
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One of America's most notorious  prisons, Sing Sing, could do more than lock up dangerous  criminals, local officials say.
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Official reports highlight problems in two British prisons, including a vermin infestation in one
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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Research finds a significant number of inmates come from some of Scotland's poorest areas.