The review team has spoken to more than 100 prisoners, to senior prison management, including the Director of Prisons, Peter Russell, as well as unions and staff.
Mr Howard forced his director of prisons, Derek Lewis, to resign, while declining to accept much in the way of responsibility himself, famously refusing to answer a question put 14 times by a television interviewer suggesting he had made Mr Lewis a scapegoat.
Earlier, Suzan Hubbard, director of adult prisons in California, also recommended against granting Atkins' request.
Mohr considered slain Colorado prisons director Tom Clements a professional and personal friend.
Colorado officials would not confirm Ebel's gang ties or say whether they had anything to do with the death of prisons director Tom Clements.
Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr authored a voluminous report on the causes of the Lucasville riot as director of then-Gov. George Voinovich's Office of Criminal Justice.
Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said prisons would not be effective while they were "crammed full of people serving short, meaningless sentences for petty crimes".
Harley Lappin, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told the committee he would like to see other groups approved as endorsers.
Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Harley Lappin (55) enjoyed a 25 year career of distinguished service when he announced that May 7, 2011 would mark the beginning of his retirement.
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Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said closing prisons and reducing prison numbers "offers major social and economic gains" but warned it "would be a gigantic mistake if the justice secretary were to revive the discredited idea of titans and pour taxpayers' money down the prison building drain" instead of investing in crime prevention, healthcare and community solutions to crime.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said those who think prisons are a "holiday camp" should read the report.
From October 2007 until January 2011, Clements was the director of adult institutions for the department, the biography says, overseeing 21 adult prisons.
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