Prisoners to Work Colorado Fields
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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The U.S. prison camp for terror suspects is taking on a look of permanence as the mission marks its third year Tuesday, with plans for a new &#36;25 million prison facility, &#36;1.7 million psychiatric wing and a permanent guard force.
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Standing on the roof of California's death row, Warden Jill Brown looks down at the exercise yards and sees troubling possibilities. An old masonry wall with razor wire on top and a strip of grass are practically all that stand between condemned men and the San Francisco Bay.
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Chile's government says it will build a  prison for officers convicted of human rights abuses in the Pinochet era.
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Even as they contend with criticisms of the way Idaho inmates were treated at a privately run Texas prison, state officials are sending more inmates to a troubled facility run by the same company.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A federal medium-security prison in British Columbia has become a "powder keg" because of lax enforcement by its management, the union representing guards said Tuesday.
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By Patrick Malone, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--A Pueblo bail bondsman was sentenced to probation for trying to make it look like a sheriff's deputy had accepted a bribe.   Homer Lamar Blackwell Jr., 61, of Blackwell's Bail Bonds, pleaded guilty Jan.
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Prison officers in England and Wales are due to report for work as normal after their national strike was ended.
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Children up to the age of five will be kept with their inmate mothers as part of a new move at an all-women jail.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  RICHFIELD -- The tents are spread out across the lawns of the Snow College South campus.  The events center has been commandeered as a makeshift "command post," with tables for human resources and information.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--GULFPORT -- Harrison County supervisors are considering strapping ankle monitoring devices on pretrial, nonviolent inmates and sending them back on the streets as a way to combat jail overcrowding.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 8--FLORENCE - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office will be built at the Fremont County Airport Industrial Park.   Fremont County commissioners last Thursday approved the sale of eight acres of land for the project.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 9--Pueblo County's 1041 land-use regulations are becoming a "smorgasbord for lawyers," as Commissioner Matt Peulen put it.
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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.