Inmate numbers outstrip capacity
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales hits a new high for the fourth week running and outstrips jail capacity.
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Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.
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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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The latest storage numbers are in and -- big surprise -- storage spending is up.
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The number of prisoners in Scotland's jails reaches a record high, according to new figures.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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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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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Faced with unprecedented prison overcrowding _ and the threat of a federal judge imposing an early release program as soon as this summer _ state officials Friday announced a temporary plan to transfer thousands of inmates against their will to out-of-state prisons.
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Major U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq are nearly full, with the number of suspected insurgents in custody at the highest level since March, according to detention officials.
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Suicide attempts are common at prisons operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where inmates step over one another in overcrowded jails
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Hundreds of inmates' relatives gathered outside Mexico's top-security prison on Sunday as federal authorities announced plans to occupy the facility for at least another week.
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons rose significantly in 2007, figures show.
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After two decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six years of this century, according to 2006 census statistics released today.
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Burma has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 jail inmates following a shake-up in the military-run regime. A prison source says that all 9,248 prisoners promised freedom have been released, although
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It also appears that, for the first time, there could be a limit on the number of tickets available.
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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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Nicolas Cage may be running out of storage room for his loot.