Latest News You are here: Resources --> Latest News What happens when you find out you just hired a ‘sex offender’? From Prison Legal News Buried in Plain Sight: How Digital Discovery Turns Disclosure Itself Into ConcealmentAt Least Three Guards Charged for Assaulting Two Massachusetts PrisonersDetroit Pays $5.8 Million to Former State Prisoner Exonerated of Murder After 15 YearsNew Jersey Supreme Court Announces Brady and Carter Materiality Standards Differ, Holding Carter’s “Probably Change the Jury’s Verdict” Test for New Trial More Stringent Than Brady’s “Reasonable Probability” StandardDetainees Overpower Guards to Take Control of a North Carolina Jail From the Charles Koch Institute American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of more than 390 percent since 1978.