News
- Few fixes for full prisons (The News & Observer)
The response to the state's growing prison population over the past decade has been consistent -- build more prisons. And when a legislator suggests that lawmakers put more money into prevention instead of incarceration, his colleagues laugh. - Prisons staff to get service allowances (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
The government has dispatched cheques for the Kshs. 10,000 payable to each of the 1,623 prisons officers who participated in quelling the post-poll violence to all provincial prisons commanders for onward transmission, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka disclosed today. - Nigeria: Police, Prisons Officials Clash in Oko (AllAfrica.com)
More that 10 officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service were Monday evening given the beating of their lives with three of them on danger list when men of the Nigerian Police Force invaded the Nigerian Prisons located at Oko, near Benin. - Governor Gibbons signs emergency regulations to protect children born in prisons (News 4 Reno)
Governor Jim Gibbons Friday signed emergency regulations to help ensure children born to Nevada prison inmates are placed in the custody of a responsible caregiver. - Few fixes for full prisons (The News & Observer)
Some inmates held at county jails. But an alternative is met with laughter. - Senior Population Also Growing in Nevada Prisons (KTVN Reno)
The senior population in Nevada's prisons is exploding right along with the senior wave in the rest of the state and that is presenting special problems.