The Crossroads detention facility at the Charlotte and Glades county line has been rehabilitating teenage boys for nearly a quarter of a century. The facility is sparse. Consisting of a half a dozen buildings in the middle of palmetto spotted farmland with nothing around for miles. The facility houses about 30 boys in their late teens and employs about 30 full time employees. http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2012-05-17/State-set-to-close-local-detention-facility- 18 May 2012 14:44:16 GMT Legislators are hard at work in the subcommittees of the Appropriations Committee, trying to include parts of the budget left out of Governor Pat Quinn’s proposed budget, including making room for state facilities that the Commission for Government Forecasting and Accountability voted to recommend to the governor to remain open. Representative Jason Barickman, R-Champaign, said that the public safety subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, which handles the Department of Corrections budgets, has been working on adding Dwight Correctional Center and other state facilities back into the budget. http://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/news/x1035959145/Fight-for-Dwight-prison-now-with-legislators 18 May 2012 14:45:03 GMT The Somerset County Jail's recent decision to no longer board inmates from other counties may end up testing the resolve of state officials to force their will upon counties, and the counties' will to fight back. The decision has officials grappling with the question of who has final say over those issues. "Currently, the system is in transition," said Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty, who oversees the county jail in Augusta. "We have competing interest at times." http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/decision-has-statewideimpact_2012-05-16.html 18 May 2012 14:45:44 GMT Gov. Brian Sandoval has invited the public to attend decommissioning ceremonies at Nevada State Prison in Carson City on Friday at 11 a.m. This prison started as the Nevada Territorial Prison in 1862 and operated for 150 years until the state decided to close it. The last inmates were moved out in January. http://www.rgj.com/article/20120517/NEWS/305170044/Public-invited-to-Nevada-State-Prison-decommissioning?odyssey=tab%7cmostpopular%7ctext%7cNEWS 18 May 2012 14:46:23 GMT A guard at a Bronx detention center was seriously injured when five teens attacked him because they wanted more food, law enforcement sources said Thursday. The assailants hit Sgt. Joseph Forrester in the head with a chair and repeatedly punched him in the face during Tuesday’s incident at the Horizon Juvenile Center. The detention facility is run by the Adminstration for Children’s Services and houses suspects as young as 10 while their cases are pending. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/teens-charged-guard-beat-children-services-facility-article-1.1080263 18 May 2012 14:47:10 GMT The latest in a string of guard assaults at Stanley Correctional Institution leaves four guards with injuries, and has a community wondering what's prompting them. The Stanley Police Chief says a male inmate hurt all four of the guards in a housing unit of the prison as they tried to restrain him. Officers have now reported injuries to seven different guards in three separate incidents in a little more than a month. http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/BREAKING_NEWS_Four_guards_hurt_in_Stanley_prison_assault_151898275.html 18 May 2012 14:47:54 GMT The Justice Department on Thursday issued the first comprehensive federal rules aimed at “zero tolerance” for sexual assaults against inmates in prisons, jails and other houses of detention. The regulations, issued after years of discussions among officials and prisoner advocacy groups, address a problem that a new government study finds may afflict one out of every 10 prisoners, more than twice as many as suggested by an earlier survey. Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, and the rules to carry it out are the first to address federal, state and local prisons and jails, including institutions holding juveniles. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/us/politics/us-sets-first-comprehensive-rules-to-stem-prison-rape.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 18 May 2012 14:48:32 GMT Suspected illegal immigrants in Georgia are suffering from a "systemic violation ... of civil and human rights" during their confinement in "substandard" federal immigration detention facilities, including Stewart Detention Center, the largest of its kind in the nation, according to a new report by the state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The 182-page report, released Wednesday, immediately added fuel to the hot-burning debate over illegal immigration in this Deep South state, where the presence of an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants - the seventh-largest population in the nation - has transformed large swaths of both cities and countryside. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/16/149082/aclu-alleges-rights-violations.html 18 May 2012 14:49:13 GMT Correctional officer Lloyd Hedges received a citation from the state House of Representatives on Wednesday honoring his 50 years of government service. The 83-year-old East Providence resident is currently the most senior state employee in terms of years served, having started working in 1962 at a salary of $2,600 a year, according to state Rep. Helio Melo, D-East Providence. He now works in the Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston, after working in the Maximum Security prison for 20 years. http://news.providencejournal.com/politics/2012/05/assembly-recognizes-correctional-officer-who-has-served-for-50-yearsready.html 18 May 2012 14:49:57 GMT City–arranged transportation is under way for families of inmates displaced by the sudden closing more than two weeks ago of Richmond’s Juvenile Detention Center. City officials have also announced a weekend visitation schedule for families to visit the facilities in Williamsburg, Charlottesville, Chesterfield and Goochland where Richmond’s juveniles were sent after the city shuttered its facility. Forty-six inmates were transferred as a result of the closure, though some were housed in Richmond’s city jail. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/may/16/city-providing-rides-families-juvenile-inmates-ar-1918928/ 18 May 2012 14:50:39 GMT