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- Civil liberties group sues private US prison company over violence at Idaho jail
- APNewsBreak: ACLU sues private prison company over widespread inmate violence at Idaho lockup
- Tribes scramble to meet federal sex offender registration requirements by summer’s deadline
- Calif. sex offender with letter carrier job reassigned to post that doesn’t deal with public
- Probation report on California teen slaying suspect cites ’significant predatory traits’
- Preliminary hearing for sex offender in California teen murder case pushed back to summer
- Parents of dead SoCal teen urge new predator laws; police focus on man charged in another case
- Mourners gather to remember 14-year-old girl whose remains were found north of San Diego
- Police: Registered sex offender is focus of 2nd murder investigation involving Calif. teen
- Ohio delays execution of inmate who took overdose of pills hours before scheduled death
- Bones of 14-year-old Calif. girl found; discovery follows arrest in 17-year-old’s death
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- Sex predator laws questioned after Calif. teen’s death as police seek links to other crimes
- Suspect in San Diego teen’s killing eluded suspicion despite sex offender laws
- New Zealand imprisons German tourist for trying to smuggle lizards out of the country
- Thousands attend vigil for Calif. teen whose body was believed to be found in shallow grave
- Body found in shallow grave believed to be missing California teen
- Calif. parents recount horror of discovering 17-year-old daughter was missing
- Parents of missing Calif. teen plead for help in finding daughter; suspect remains jailed
- Ohio teen who killed detention center guard while wrestling is sentenced to 7 years in prison
- Search resumes for missing Southern California teen, sex offender arrested
- Search resumes for missing 17-year-old San Diego County girl; sex offender held
- Search expands for missing Calif. teen, sex offender arrested
- Sheriff: Registered sex offender arrested in disappearance of San Diego County teenager
- With NYC sentence looming, Lil Wayne set to test of how jails handle celebs _ and vice versa
- Mounting protests, federal grand jury challenge ‘America’s toughest sheriff’
- Jails installing eye-scanning equipment to stop inmates from bluffing their way to freedom
- Police: Inmate serving life sentence who conned his way out of Md. prison is caught in W.Va.
- Supreme Court says molester’s old request for lawyer no longer valid in new investigation
- Montana commission says group strip searches of Indian inmates wasn’t discrimination
- 2 Tongan teens sentenced to be whipped file appeal, with some calling punishment barbaric
- Top French court overrules acquittals of 5 former Guantanamo inmates facing terror charges
- Proposal to release Michigan prisoners early runs into strong opposition from prosecutors
- Arizona prison brawl involves up to 150 inmates, leaves 13 people hurt
- Britain gets Facebook to delete 30 prisoners’ pages after some inmates taunted victims
- Police: Phoenix girl escapes from home after being locked in bathroom for 2 months, beaten
- 20-year-old man in China jailed 18 months for joining banned political party
- Lil Wayne’s sentencing postponed in NYC gun-possession case; lawyer says needs dental surgery
- Rapper Lil Wayne to be sentenced in NYC gun possession case, could get a year in jail
- China sentences man to 13 years in prison for running Web site showing pornographic videos
- Calif. law allowing an early release of inmates prompts protests by lawmakers, lawsuit
- 3 Alabama fugitives sentenced to prison in North Dakota following standoff, shootout
- Fight at Arizona prison injures 11, including 5 who were sent to hospital
- NH teen headed to prison for revenge killing of developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier
- Guards use pepper spray to stop Washington state prison fight involving nearly 50 inmates
- San Diego teen gets 16 years to life in prison for hammer death of adoptive mother
- Prison officials in Conn., other states, fear open records laws may jeopardize guard safety
- FBI probe of Pa. coal country corruption snares judges, public officials, former NFL pro
- Saudi judge orders 90 lashes for teenager who assaulted teacher over camera phone dispute
- Man suspected in 11 Cleveland deaths sends letters, cards to Internet memorabilia company
- Woman says she was raped along Ohio street by teen, cars drove by without stopping to help
- Kentucky lawmakers grill corrections leaders on quality of prison food
- Prison officials say 23 inmates dead after fight in northern Mexico penitentiary
- Iraq says effort to integrate ‘Sons of Iraq’ Sunni fighters into state jobs halfway done
- Haitian gang members profit from disaster and confusion, re-establish presence in slums
- Despite beefed-up countermeasures, illegal drug use persists in US prisons
- AP Exclusive: Scores of Ill. early release criminals back in prison after parole crackdown
- AP Exclusive: Dozens of Ill. early release criminals back in prison after parole crackdown
- UK Facebook fugitive who taunted police online caught after 4 months on the run
- Inmates’ relatives protest Mexico prisoner transfer to make way for reported Mel Gibson film
- Kentucky governor orders 400 women moved from privately run prison after assault reports
- AP Exclusive: Ill. early release inmates returned for attempted murder, weapons, battery
- Report: 1 in 3 juvenile inmates at 13 detention facilities report sex abuse
- Authorities: Few clues in search for 3 federal prisoners who escaped from southern Ill. lockup
- Federal report find youths in 13 US juvenile centers report high rates of sexual abuse
- Federal report: 13 juvenile centers have high rates of reported sex abuse and victimization
- Feds: 13 juvenile centers have high rates of reported sex abuse and victimization
- Federal appeals court rules that Washington state felony inmates should be allowed to vote
- DA: No charges for 2 fired Okla. governor’s mansion employees accused of raping inmate-workers
- Ohio says youth prison guard’s death followed inappropriate horseplay with inmate
- APNewsBreak: Ohio says youth prison guard’s death followed inappropriate horseplay with inmate
- Authorities: DNA links Idaho inmate to 1998 slaying of Salt Lake City girl
- Defense says guard at Ohio youth prison was killed in wrestling match with inmate
- 3 Pakistani men convicted in bomb blasts that killed 2 in Indian capital escape from police
- Prisoners riot in northern Peru; officials say 2 dead, some jailers briefly held as hostages
- Lawyer: China jails Tibetan lama for 8 1/2 years on charges linked to 2008 riots
- Ill. Gov. Quinn says secret policy change that freed some inmates early was a ‘big mistake’
- AP Exclusive: Ill. secret early release inmates returned to prison after new violent crimes
- Fans flock to Facebook page of fugitive Briton _ police say they’re watching his exploits too
- Sour economy, missing soldier and public wolf hunts top Idaho news stories of 2009
- North Korea apparently detains American missionary who slipped into , activist says
- Body of missing Md. girl found near Del. state line; sex offender charged in her kidnapping
- Sheriff: Body of missing Md. girl found; registered sex offender charged in her kidnapping
- Prominent Chinese dissident sentenced to 11 years for subversion over online reform call
- Thousands spend Christmas searching for missing girl on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
- Md. authorities search Christmas Eve for missing 11-year-old girl as sex offender is charged
- Ala. prison escapees, accomplices plead guilty in June standoff, shootout in North Dakota
- Conn.’s top prison says inmate slashed guard’s throat with homemade blade, prompting lockdown
- Feds seek to allay fears that moving Gitmo detainees to Ill. would make state a terror target
- Emotions run high at hearing on plan to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to rural Ill. prison
