The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Idaho prison officials and a major private prison company for more than $155 million over high levels of inmate violence at the Idaho Correctional Center.
A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.
With Lil Wayne's imprisonment this morning , and T.I. still behind bars, the two greatest rappers of a generation are currently incarcerated.
North Carolina prisoners can write and try to publish manuscripts after the state and the American Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement.
USP Florence seen from a distance, which is how authorities like it. Since its first issue, slapped together in a prison cell two decades ago, Prison Legal News has run hundreds of articles on abuse and corruption in local jails and state and federal prisons , shining a light where few of the ladies and gents of the mainstream press care to go.
Police officers already may be tested for impermissible drug-taking if their superiors have "just cause" to require it, according to police managers and the officers' labor union.
