Supreme Court to weigh rights of federal prison inmates to sue over lack of medical treatment

WASHINGTON — Taking up a case that could further erode the rights of people to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a prison inmat ...
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Escapes, Riots and Beatings. But States Can’t Seem to Ditch Private Prisons.

In Arizona in 2015, a riot broke out in a private prison where previously three inmates had escaped and murdered a vacationing couple. In an undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of ...