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- Private Prisons, Public Pain (Fort Worth Weekly)
Despite a long record of abuses, GEO is still running Texas prisons. Reeves County straddles I-20 in West Texas, between Odessa and El Paso. Pecos is the county seat, anchored in cowboy mythology. - RI prisons agency investigates alleged bribery (Boston Globe)
The Rhode Island prisons agency is investigating an allegation made by a witness in a murder trial that a guard took a $100 bribe to let the witness and the defendant hold a secret meeting in a prison conference room. - ACLU: Alaska prisons overcrowded, but better than 48 (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - State prisons are overcrowded but they generally provide better living conditions than prisons in the Lower 48, said the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska. A report re... - Cuts to drug and alcohol treatment could send more addicts to California prisons (KPCC Pasadena)
California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger, secon from left, tours a prison with officials, Tuesday, March 6, 2007, in Norco, Calif. - Judges fear prisons will burst under shake-up of sentencing guidelines (Daily Mail: World News)
Keith Cutler, vice-president of the Council of Circuit Judges, said the Sentencing Council, which comes into effect next month, could increase judges' use of custody. - ACLU rates Alaska prisons as better than most in U.S. (Anchorage Daily News)
Alaska's prisons are overcrowded but generally provide better living conditions than those found in Lower 48 facilities, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a report released Monday.