Punjab updates 125-year-old prison laws to meet international standards - Class emerges as a key factor in who gets sent to prison - How one state's repeal of a prison 'pay-to-stay' law could guide national reform - Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state's prisons - Congress passes a bill to bring new oversight to the troubled federal prison system - Judge rules New York state prisons violate law by holding inmates in solitary confinement too long - Judge rules that New York state prisons violate solitary confinement rules - 'A blot on our legal system': New head of prisons' union calls for urgent review of indefinite sentences - The Supreme Court upholds mandatory prison terms for some low-level drug dealers - 3 Mississippi prisons violated Constitution with violence, poor conditions: DOJ