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