CAMPAIGN NEWS: PRESS COVERAGE
FROM: NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. Suing Louisiana On Prison Ills
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10613F93C5A0C758CDDA80994D0494D81
By FOX BUTTERFIELD
National Desk | November 6, 1998, Friday
LEAD PARAGRAPH - The Justice Department filed suit yesterday accusing the State of Louisiana, widely believed to have the worst juvenile prisons in the nation, with failing to protect youthful inmates from brutality by guards and providing inadequate education, medical and mental health care. The lawsuit, to force the state to improve conditions, is an unusually forceful action by the Justice Department. It follows two years of investigation by department experts and unsuccessful negotiations with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.