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<EM>Te Radar:</EM> Apple a day keeps prison away

Written off because they don't know how to read or write

Islamists release hostages in Jordan jail

Even new jails won't keep Aucklanders at home

Cut off from the realities of adult life

Furnished flats plan aims to give ex-prisoners fresh starts

US pumps cash into prisons as Iraq crumbles

Hardened criminal's escape raises question over prison security

<EM>Brian Rudman:</EM> Even jailers want disgraceful prison cleared out

Family stuck in cycle of violence

Afghan prison siege enters fourth day

Prison group defends employment scheme

Ring of steel around rioting prisoners

Afghans hopeful for peaceful end to prison standoff

Prisoners' drug and alcohol problems rage untreated

Locked into days of idleness when in prison

Prisons locked in crisis

Auckland's prison cell shortage

Squalid, sub-standard conditions at Mt Eden Prison

Jump in boys' violent crimes alarms judge

'Third World' police cells

Prisoners paid 20c an hour to pick fruit

$2 million art thief recaptured after weeks on the run

Inmates allowed to watch violent movies

Militants seize parts of Afghan jail, 30 injured

Kabul prisoners riot

Church suggests plan to cut jail numbers

Daughter fears for imprisoned father's life

<EM>Ted Lapkin: </EM>Deterrent force of prison camp is all that militants understand

<EM>Irfan Yusuf:</EM> Guantanamo a blot on US image

Sex scam puts Kiwi's conviction in doubt

National warns over open prison proposals

Archbishop attacks US over camp

Pressure to close Guantanamo rises

<EM>Te Radar:</EM> Apple a day keeps prison away

Written off because they don't know how to read or write

Islamists release hostages in Jordan jail

Even new jails won't keep Aucklanders at home

Cut off from the realities of adult life

Furnished flats plan aims to give ex-prisoners fresh starts

US pumps cash into prisons as Iraq crumbles

Hardened criminal's escape raises question over prison security

<EM>Brian Rudman:</EM> Even jailers want disgraceful prison cleared out

Family stuck in cycle of violence

Afghan prison siege enters fourth day

Prison group defends employment scheme

Ring of steel around rioting prisoners

Afghans hopeful for peaceful end to prison standoff

Prisoners' drug and alcohol problems rage untreated

Locked into days of idleness when in prison

Prisons locked in crisis

Auckland's prison cell shortage&nbsp;

Squalid, sub-standard conditions at Mt Eden Prison

Jump in boys' violent crimes alarms judge

'Third World' police cells

Prisoners paid 20c an hour to pick fruit

$2 million art thief recaptured after weeks on the run

Inmates allowed to watch violent movies

Militants seize parts of Afghan jail, 30 injured

Kabul prisoners riot

Church suggests plan to cut jail numbers

Daughter fears for imprisoned father's life

<EM>Ted Lapkin: </EM>Deterrent force of prison camp is all that militants understand

<EM>Irfan Yusuf:</EM> Guantanamo a blot on US image

Sex scam puts Kiwi's conviction in doubt

National warns over open prison proposals

Archbishop attacks US over camp

Pressure to close Guantanamo rises

Auckland's prison cell shortage