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• A VMI spokesman told CNN the school is not sending applications to women because the state-supported institution is still deciding whether to go co-educational or become a private school and remain all-male. ...
• LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Erik and Lyle Menendez were moved to separate maximum security prisons Tuesday, after unspecified "security concerns" were raised about housing them in the same prison. ...
• The Menendez brothers may see each other again, depending on good behavior and other factors, but that would not happen for 15 to 20 years at the earliest, according to a spokesman with the California State Corrections Department. ...
• Erik Menendez was moved to California State Prison in Sacramento County, and Lyle Menendez to the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi. Both had been at North Kern State Prison in Delano. ...
• The Menendez brothers were sentenced in July to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the August 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills home. ...

• Department of Corrections; Calipatria State Prison, CA       Chaplain Charles Richey.
• Department of Corrections; North Kern State Prison, CA       Chaplain Ben Lopez.
• Department of Corrections; Tehachapi State Prison, CA        Chaplain Joel Valenzuela.

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• California's Prison Industry Authority .
• Box 1902-B 1B-208L, Tehachapi, CA 93581-5902 Imagine a half-billion dollar manufacturing company that uses slave labor, has little overhead, ignores state and federal laws regulating workplace safety, includes hazardous materials in the construction of its products, forces customers to buy those products under penalty of law, yet loses money. ... It's California's Prison Industry Authority. ...
• Some 41 other prison industry programs across the nation turned a profit in 1992-93. ... Florida, Texas, and North Carolina-with the largest prison industries outside of California-compete with private businesses in the marketplace. Florida's PRIDE (Prison Rehabilitative Industries & Diversified Enterprises) program is a private, nonprofit corporation created by the Legislature in 1981. ...
• TID employs 7,500 prisoners from a prison population of 94,000. ... North Carolina's prison industry made $5. ... And, of these four states, only California requires government agencies, schools, libraries, and hospitals to buy prison made goods. ... Don Green, purchasing agent for California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, needed chairs for the new computer lab.
• However, California law forced him to order the furniture from the prison manufacturing empire. ... In 1994, state entities chose from 110 product lines and 2,000 items in the slickly printed PIA catalog, spending $135 million on prison made goods. ...
• And everybody covers everybody's ass," said Leonard Greenstone, the lone dissident on the Prison Authority Board, in a recent Orange County Register interview. ... " Private business people think the law forbidding state agencies and other divisions from purchasing commodities on the open market should be abolished.
• In that report, prison industry managers also say outdated equipment, delays in processing orders for raw materials, the high turnover of prisoners, and random lockdowns by prison administrators further drive costs up and production down. ...

• Davis to Close State's Privately Run Prisons.
• Gray Davis is ending California's experiment with privately operated prisons, fulfilling his promise to a state prison guards union that spent $2. ...
• He cites budget concerns, saying that the state can save about $5 million by closing the minimum-security facilities. ...
• Critics in the Legislature denounced the proposal as a favor to the prison guards' union, which has long fought the use of private prisons, where the public employees' organization has no jurisdiction.
• Most prominently, he signed into law a labor agreement, negotiated by his staff, that will boost prison guards' pay 33. ... By comparison, the administration has reached labor pacts giving most other state workers a 5% raise in their take-home pay over the next two years. ...
• is among the largest campaign donors in the state. ...
• The governor believes his plan would save the state $5. ...
• In the recording, Thompson both extolled the labor contract, citing a legislative analysis that the pay hike would "conservatively" cost the state between $500 million and $1 billion annually by 2006, and lauded Davis' proposal to scrap the five private prisons.
• represents the 28,000 guards in state prisons but has no jurisdiction over private institutions. ...
• The decision to scrap private prisons amounts to a reversal of policies of Davis' Republican predecessors, George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, who authorized them as a way to house minimum-security inmates at relatively low cost, and help ease crowding at state prisons at a time when the number of inmates was rising rapidly.
• Today, the prison population has fallen to 156,000 from a peak of 162,000. ...
• By state prison standards, the private lockups are small. ... The inmates are nearing the end of their sentences, and all have been screened by state corrections officials and deemed low-risk.
• The five prisons scheduled to close on June 30 are Mesa Verde in Bakersfield; Leo Chesney in Live Oak, north of Sacramento; Baker Community Correctional Facility in the desert town east of Los Angeles; Eagle Mountain in Riverside County; and McFarland Community Correctional Facility in Kern County.
• Four additional prisons would close when their contracts expire in 2007: Victor Valley and Desert View, both in Adelanto, San Bernardino County; and Central Valley and Golden State, both in McFarland.

• Historical Tour of State Route 178.
• from The Kern Canyon to Freeman Junction.
• Construction began on a road through the Kern Canyon in the mid 1890's. ... This road was built by Edison Electric for constructing their Kern River powerhouse between 1902 and 1907. ...
• Edison horse team hauling generator parts at the mouth of the Kern Canyon.
• In late 1919, Highway 178 (then known as Legislative Route 57) was added to the State highway system and was called "The Walker Pass Route" for the pass the road covers on it's way to the desert junction of Freeman. The state highway bond issue of 1919 allowed for the grading of the road between the KR1 powerhouse and Democrat. The grading was done by convict labor from Folsom Prison Camp 9 and was completed in 1924 at a cost of over $530,000. ... It is an intimidating road with a steep rocky canyon wall on one side and the mighty Kern River on the other. ...
• 1942: Flood damage about 1 mile inside the Kern Canyon.
• The county of Kern improved the 17 mile section of road from Democrat to Bodfish and turned it over to the State for maintenance as part of the State Highway on January 1, 1926. ...
• The Democrat property has since changed hands many times and with the 'high-speed' road between the Kern River Valley and Bakersfield, the resort was passed by. ...
• At Miracle, the state route connected with a road already established in 1897 by the Pacific Light & Power Company for building their Borel powerhouse. ...
• Continuing north through Hot Springs Valley, the road made an abrupt left turn and entered the small communities of Garfield and Kernvale before cutting through the "new" town of Lake Isabella. In 1966, the state authorized an upgrade of 178 to four lane expressway from China Gardens, east of Democrat to Isabella Dam. ... The old highway through Kernvale & Lake Isabella was upgraded to four lanes prior to state relinquishment in 1974 and is now known as Lake Isabella Blvd. ...

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• DENTON (UNT), Texas â ” Robert Lloyd, internationally renown bass and one of the world's pre-eminent performers of Schubert's Die Winterreise, will present the song cycle at the University of North Texas with pianist Julius Drake Nov. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas â ” Jim Heynen, whose experiences of growing up on a farm in northwest Iowa and attending a one-room schoolhouse are reflected in his poetry, fiction and nonfiction, will read selections from his works at the University of North Texas Nov. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas â ” The talent of 12 University of North Texas piano and organ students will be heard during a concert that is intended to thank the college's keyboard scholarship donors and welcome the College of Music's new dean, Dr. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas â ” As the weather cools down, a group of ceramic artists intend to heat things up at The University of North Texas. ...
• 11, two University of North Texas senior communication design students have designed a unique piece of memorabilia.
• 11, two University of North Texas senior communication design students have designed a unique piece of memorabilia.
• DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Britain's Gillian Weir, one of the world's foremost musical artists, will present an organ concert at the University of North Texas Oct. ...
• Music scholars from around the world will participate in "Legacies: 500 Years of Printed Music," a four-day international festival at the University of North Texas Oct. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Alumni of the University of North Texas' Department of Radio, Television, and Film (RTVF) will be returning to join faculty, staff, and students in a week of activities design to showcase the department. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Olga Kern, the first woman to win the Van Cliburn Gold Medal since 1969, will perform with the Tokyo String Quartet at 8 p. ...
• A gift of sculpture created by world-renowned artist Jesús Bautista Moroles to the University of North Texas will establish an espirit de corps between two distinguished alumni and a devoted friend at 6:30 p. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas - A casting call next week at the University of North Texas will give children a chance at a part in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
• DENTON (UNT), Texas -- When people come to hear the swinging sounds of The University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band Oct. ...
• DENTON (UNT), Texas - Eugene Corporon, conductor of the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, will dedicate the group's first performance this season to the memory of those we've lost. ...

• Dawn Walt, another San Diego Regional leader, responded to an article that appeared in North County Times newspaper: A prison for the future, KERN COUNTY: Private firm is ready to make a bid to house state's felons.
• I think that fellow Americans should take a closer look at the issues brought up in the Sunday Perspective pages of the paper regarding "privatization prison industries. " Ask yourself a few of these questions: Who are all these people that are filling these prisons? Why does a prison guard with a GED make more money as a first year corrections officer than an average teacher with a college education?.
• Can anyone tell me the effect this is having on all the children that are left behind by these parents that are now in prison for extended amounts of time?.
• If you break this law you will be put into prison for life. ...
• Who are these felons that the State prisons will be providing early release to? Statistically speaking there are more people doing time for violent crime in state prison, than in the Federal system, mainly because drug war crimes are federal. ...
• Walt is North County leader of the November Coalition, an organization that is critical of the war on drugs.

• California: Gains from new prison guard contract raise eyebrows (up to $100k/year).
• Fifty-five thousand dollars a year is pretty good coin in Kern County, where the median annual income is $35,446. ...
• Of the 115 California correctional officers who are on pace to increase their pay to six figures this year, five work at the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi, according to records from the state controller's office. ...
• At the other two state prisons in Kern, Wasco State Prison and North Kern State Prison in Delano, none of the correctional officers appeared to be near that level of pay.
• In the next few years, prison guard pay and perks are going to get sweeter.
• But no college degree is required and it comes with its own state-paid training program and generous benefits.
• In the case of the new prison guard contract, at least two state senators and a taxpayer watchdog group have serious concerns about whether the public's money is being wisely spent.
• "No one complains when white-collar attorneys and doctors and teachers participate in the process, but when blue-collar prison guards do it, there's some kind of taint to the system. ...
• Morgenstern said the increases in pay and benefits were designed only to bring compensation for prison guards closer to that of highway patrolmen and state firefighters to help the prison system fill more than 1,000 job vacancies.
• Only two state senators criticized the contract: Sen. ...
• "This agreement is going to cost the taxpayers a tremendous amount of money at a time when our state is facing the largest budget deficit in its history and eliminating critical public services," Polanco said. ...
• Kern County lawmakers of both parties support the contract's improvements in pay and benefits.
• Kern's lawmakers all have hundreds of prison guards living in their districts and most have received campaign contributions from the union.
• The state prisons employ numerous people in Tehachapi with 944 guards; Wasco with 628 guards; and Delano with 577 guards.
• Both the nonpartisan legislative analyst and the state auditor have repeatedly criticized the Department of Corrections for what they say is poor personnel management. ...
• The prison agency had to come back to the Legislature for an extra $277 million to balance its budget for the fiscal year that ended June 30. ...

•   State Will Bill Second Prison In Delano .
• The city's second prison - Delano II - should open its doors to 5,000 high-risk, maximum-security residents by April 2005, according to the California Department of Corrections.
• The 483-acre complex will bring jobs to the area at zero cost, since state prisons supply their own water, sewer, power and other resources, said City Councilman Art Armendariz.
• North Kern State Prison, the other facility in Delano, is only a reception center which houses inmates from county jails until they're transferred.

• North Kern State Prison (NKSP).
• North Kern State Prison - Mission Statement.
• The mission of North Kern State Prison is two-fold:  1) it functions as a reception center for the processing of incoming inmates from southern and some northern counties; and 2) functions as the Central California Transportation Hub for the California Department of Corrections. ...
•   The general population portion of the institution focuses on providing educational and vocational programming geared towards providing inmates with skills and education which will aid them in seeking employment upon their release from prison.
• North Kern State Prison was opened April 1993, and covers  640 acres. ...
• On October 7, 1994, the adult education facility was dedicated in the memory of Marie Keroack Romero, a prison teacher who was murdered at a California Youth Authority facility in 1975.
•   The facility is an exact replica of its closest neighbor, Wasco State Prison-Reception Center.
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• State-of-the-art facilities and maintenance management.
• That's why the California Department of Corrections (CDC) chose to implement a state-of-the-art maintenance program. ... To protect the state's $4. 5 billion dollar investment in new prison facilities, reduce escapes among approximate 148,000 inmates within the 33 major facilities, and provide a safe work environment, CDC needed an automated facilities management system that provides fast and consistent data for maintaining all prison assets.
• The implementation team established pilot projects at Folsom State Prison and Centinela to contrast data collection at old and new facilities. ...
• A standardized, state-of-the-art solution .
• Since a standardized platform was essential to reaching project goals, CDC designed SAPMS to provide a consistent environment with state-of-the-art facilities management and computer-aided drafting capabilities on a Microsoft Windows NT®-based network. ...
• - Lucia Lopez, North Kern State Prison, Delano.
• - Art Louie, Supervisor of Building Trades, Folsom State Prison .
• "With the availability of standardized statewide data the department will be able to project workload and identify resources needed to support maintenance of the massive physical plants within the California prison system. ...
• Each of CDC's 33 prison facilities, one training center, and their Sacramento, California, headquarters have implemented SAPMS. ... An independent analysis by the governor's office in December 1999 has rated the system as one of the state's top IT projects for its smooth implementation and rollout. ...
• With SAPMS in place, CDC now uses a single system accessed throughout the state instead of the nine maintenance methods and innumerable formats and processes once used at 35 isolated sites. ...

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• There are currently about 6,000 inmates located in Wasco State prison, and the city has plans to ad another 4,000 inmates with a new private prison. ...
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• By: Associated Press TEHACHAPI -- A man died Friday in a mid-air collision near a state prison in Tehachapi, authorities said. Two small aircraft, a Cessna 180 and a twin-engine Beechcraft, clipped each other southeast of Bakersfield, said Jerry Menendez, spokesman for the Kern County Fire Department. ...
• "That plane had extensive damage to the cockpit area and the pilot was suffering from cuts to his face and cuts to his hands," said Kern County Sheriff's Sgt. ...
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• SLO COUNTY -- Would Atascadero City Manager Wade McKinney say yes to opening a city-operated prison for minimum-security state prisoners? Not automatically. ...
• Tonight at 7 at the City Hall/Library Conference Room one of the two Bakersfield companies interested in building a 500-bed private prison in town will explain what they have in mind. ...
• Although there is no money in the state budget for any new community correctional facilities, several companies are studying potential sites in anticipation of the next round of spending. ...
• The state has 16 community correctional facilities, seven operated by cities or counties and the balance by private companies. ...
• Salaries are lower than at state prisons, he said. ...
• Although 100 jobs is not a huge number, it could help bring new employment to the North County, which hasn't seen as much job growth as the South County, he said. ...
•   "With a 100-person ( start-up ) firm, you don't have a lot of those safeguards of a contract with the state. ...
• The experience McKinney and other public operators had with the state wasn't all positive, however. ...
• "Back in 1992, when the state had their financial problems, the Department of Corrections just unilaterally cut the contracts," he said. ...
• The private community correctional facilities have less negotiating power with the state, he said. ...
• He and Sechrest note that the state has certain obligations to protect not only the residents in prison communities, but the inmates themselves. ...
•   The Kern County community is the home to the first private federal prison. ...
• Shichor and Sechrest also question whether the state saves money with the creation of the community correctional facilities. ...
• It's hard to compare costs because community correctional facilities don't have the same range of inmates or services as state prisons. ...   They don't provide medical care beyond the basics -- that's handled by a "hub," a nearby state prison, which also takes in any inmate who becomes a problem. ...

• By Argiris Malapanis and Samantha Kern, 7 September 1998.
• government’s campaign to isolate the DPRK and brand it as a terrorist and totalitarian state, add to the economic squeeze. ...
• Cultivation of virtually every possible parcel of fertile land, including gardens between city apartment buildings and riverbanks, has always been government policy, though, as north Korea is very mountainous. ...
• All of the country’s agriculture is organized in cooperative or state farms. ... After fulfilling the agreed-upon quota with the state, farmers can sell produce at farmers markets where prices are determined by supply and demand, though the government imposes a cap on prices. ...
• Ryong said the farm uses 41 tractors and 16 trucks—which are owned by state machine pools that loan them indefinitely to the cooperatives - and grows rice, corn, soybeans, vegetables, and a variety of fruits. ...
• It’s impossible to spend time in north Korea and not be struck by how much has been built from scratch in less than half a century. ...
• government allegations that its spy agencies have discovered an underground site in north Korea where Pyongyang is supposedly building a nuclear bomb plant. ...
• The report may lead to scuttling a 1994 agreement under which the Clinton administration is to provide $35 million worth of heavy fuel oil to north Korea. ...
• North Korea is a dangerous, unpredictable country, declared an editorial in the August 17 New York Times, stating the DPRK seems to have been caught preparing to betray its 1994 commitment to trade in its nuclear weapons ambitions for $6 billion in international assistance. ...
• All Koreans we spoke to or interviewed during the trip said that the so-called sunshine policy toward the DPRK of south Korean president Kim Dae Jung, who was elected in February, is merely a democratic facade and there is no evidence it will lead to normalization of relations with the north. When Kim Dae Jung visited the United States in June, he called on Washington to ease sanctions on north Korea and announced later he would release political prisoners without requiring they sign letters in which they renounce their political beliefs. ...
• troops should remain in south Korea even after unification; and Seoul’s refusal to allow students to leave the south Korean capital and join compatriots from the north for a common rally at Panmunjom to celebrate independence day on August 15 and demand reunification. ...
• Many of the prisoners who have been released simply go to a larger prison, Ju said. ...
• Indeed, when 103 prisoners of conscience were released in south Korea on August 15 it became clear that they had to first sign a pledge to abide by south Korean laws, including the notorious National Security Law, which deems any contacts with the north to be treason. ...

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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A state prison inmate accused of killing his 18-year-old cellmate on the victim's first night behind bars had been deemed too dangerous to share a cell with anyone, but guards allegedly missed warning signs, according to a newspaper report Monday. ...
• When Gary Avila arrived at Wasco State Prison in Kern County two months ago convicted of being a gang member in possession of a gun, he was ushered into a cell occupied by a 33-year-old career criminal with a history of psychiatric problems. ...
• "Yeah, I did it," his cellmate, Paul Posada, allegedly told a prison lieutenant minutes after the discovery. ...
• Prison documents, interviews and court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times show that prison guards allegedly missed warning signs that Posada posed a threat, and may have violated prison policy by placing Avila in his cell. ...
• The Times also found that prison officials withheld potential evidence from the district attorney. ...
• Prison spokesman John Katavich defended the institution's handling of the case, but acknowledged that the circumstances surrounding Avila's death may prompt a change in policy regarding background checks on arriving inmates. ...
• On the day Avila was killed, Posada had been transferred from the Kern Jail after having been sentenced to eight more years in prison for spitting in a guard's face at Tehachapi State Prison. ...
• Knox said paperwork documenting Posada's security status and mental health problems was forwarded to Wasco prison. ...
• And just hours before Avila was killed, Posada's first cellmate, Rufus Hernandez, was removed from the cell after allegedly complaining to a guard that Posada was crazy, according to a prison report documenting an interview with Hernandez. ...
• 29, but the prison did not send the report to prosecutors pursuing a murder case against Posada until they learned about it and requested it, the Times said. ...
• "This information was deemed not necessary for inclusion (in the original report)," said a memo from the prison lieutenant who interviewed Hernandez. ...
• Avila pleaded guilty to being a gang member in possession of a concealed weapon, a relatively low-level offense by state prison standards. ...
• Posada was most recently sent to prison for violating parole after he was arrested for being under the influence of drugs last year. ...

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• California prisons are among the nation's most overcrowded, operating at 198 percent of capacity, according to the latest weekly report by the state Department of Corrections. That's why it is so ridiculous that the state plans to shut down three privately managed prisons, known as "community correctional facilities," by the end of the month.
• The three private prisons – Eagle Mountain in Riverside County, McFarland in Kern County and Mesa Verde in Bakersfield – house roughly 1,000 minimum-security inmates between them.
• State corrections officials suggest that fewer low-security facilities are needed, because of a steady decline in nonviolent offenders statewide. They say closure of the three prisons will save the state nearly $900,000 over the next four years.
• Indeed, every inmate housed by the three private prisons – minimum-security or not – represents one less that the state-run prisons must accommodate. The truth is, the private lock-ups help to relieve California's overcrowded prison system.
• Indeed, state corrections officials acknowledge that the cost of housing an inmate in a privately managed prison is $17,000 a year. That's a full $11,000 a year lower for each inmate than in a state facility.
• In the end, he settled for merely closing three of the state's nine privately managed correctional facilities by the end of this year.
• Davis' successor has not addressed himself to the matter of private prisons, what with his preoccupation with the state budget crisis among other concerns. ... It was because California's prisons were so overcrowded that the state first sought out private corrections companies to operate prisons here. And the state's prisons are no less crowded now than they were then.

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• the prison industrial complex and beyond.
• 5 million Pelican Bay State Prison, one of the newest, meanest super-max lockups in the system. ... The prison is also Crescent City and Del Norte County's largest employer-and in many ways the region's new colonial master.
• The new prison's political and economic clout is all-the-more exaggerated due to Crescent City's extreme isolation and poverty. ... By the time the CDC came scouting for a new prison site, unemployment had breached 20 percent. ... Prison was its only hope.
• Today in Crescent City the emerging American police state means economic survival; Pelican Bay provides I,500 jobs, an annual payroll of $50 million, and a budget of over $90 million. Indirectly, the prison has created work in everything from construction and pumping gas to domestic violence counseling. Just the contract for hauling away the prison's garbage is worth $ 130,000 a year - big money in California's poorest county. ...
• According to one report, the prison labor, billed at the meager sum of $7 per hour, would have cost the county at least $766,300. "Without the prison we wouldn't exist," says Cochran.
• The prison industrial complex.
• Little town and big prison: it is a marriage that has been replicated scores of times in recent years. ... Nationally, the tab for building penitentiaries has averaged about $7 billion annually over the last decade; in 1996 alone contractors broke ground on twenty-six federal and ninety-six state prisons. ...
• Is prison building the current delivery system for Keynesian stimulus in a post Cold War, demilitarized America? Is the emerging prison industrial complex replacing or augmenting that behemoth constellation of civilian government, military power, and private capital that Eisenhower dubbed the "military industrial complex" and which for two generations has been America's defacto industrial policy? This is the line argued by a few on the left and, to some extent, by writers in the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly. ...
• Nonetheless, we might ask: are specific corporate interests driving criminal justice policy, as is often the case with military policy? This "prison as Pentagon" argument generally cites three ways in which incarceration bolsters capitalism: broad Keynesian stimulus (as in the case of Crescent City), the privatization of prisons and prison-related services, and the exploitation of prison labor by private firms. All of these features of the prison industrial complex are important, but none of them-alone or together-explains why we are headed for what Jerome Miller calls a "gulag state. ...

• Specifically, the "Prison Dharma Walk" was designed to draw public attention to perceived flaws in the criminal justice system-including long prison sentences and the death penalty.
• Some 16 walkers took part in the local portions of the cross-state pilgrimage. ...
• The activists arrived at the Methodist Church utter spending several days walking through Delano, Wasco, and Bakersfield where they made time for vigil stops outside North Kern State Prison, Wasco State Prison, and Bakersfield Federal Prison, respectively.
• She is one of the core group who plan to complete the entire cross-state route which began in Oakland and will end in Lompoc on March 4. ...
• "I heard about this from the nun in New York State who organized it;' she said, referring to sister Jun Yasuda of the Buddhist Order known as Nipponzan Myohoji.

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• Presbyterian group passes anit-private prison resolution. ...
• Israel: Prison expert denounces for-profits. ...
• Special Report: Central North Correctional Centre - Government Praise and Liberal Response.
• Australia: State to run jail. ...
• THE long wait is over with the announcement late yesterday afternoon that the Mid- North Coast Correctional Centre will not be privatised.
• I must take issue with Stephen Franks' flights of fantasy as expressed in his article on the privately managed Auckland Central Remand Prison. ...
• While the new state prison being built in Elliott County is the only prison the Fletcher administration says it is considering for privatization, Corrections Commissioner John Rees said a private company could operate food services at all 12 adult prisons as early as this year. ...
• Not long after signing its current three-year contract with the state, which expires Oct. ... Even though it had agreed to the terms of the contract to run the 550-bed women's prison in North Las Vegas,.
• Scotland: Heroin and other problems at Premier prison. ...
• PRISON drug barons are raking in more than £5000 a month selling heroin to fellow inmates.
• More than 100 inmates at Scotland's only private prison are hooked on heroin and spend over half their £30-a-week wages on drugs.
• Canada: Better clock watching at MTC prison? Posted Mar 15.

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