A newly released report shows that 42 people have broken into prisons in England and Wales in the last five years. According to reports, prostitutes and drug dealers are breaking into prisons in order to sell sex and drugs to inmates. The Guardian said that drugs are actually cheaper inside prison than on the street, because there is such an abundance of them within prison walls. Others say some of the break-ins may occur because prisoners become institutionalized and are not comfortable in the free world.

The U. S. military and a consortium of biotechnology research organizations are embarking on a program to regenerate damaged tissues and body parts of American soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. InCytu Inc. , which develops tissue healing and regeneration devices, and Rutgers/Cleveland Clinic will constitute the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM).

A study conducted by the Rotterdam police revealed that hardened criminals are pacified upon exposure to the scent of oranges. An experiment, conducted for four weeks, revealed that felons became less aggressive, and more obedient when the scent of the citrus fruit was pumped into their prison cells.

Police are now looking for two inmates who chipped their way out through an 18-inch hole of the high-security Union County jail in New Jersey, leaving behind a "Happy Holidays" note complete with a smiley. Jose Espinosa, 20, and Otis Blunt, 32, who are considered armed and dangerous, used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and in the outer wall in Espinosa's cell, police said.

South Korean scientists said that after altering genes and cloning the cats, they made the cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays. The experiment may be counted as one of the big steps towards using the genetic technology for the modification of human genes to cure diseases, according to the Science and Technology Ministry.