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Louisiana's Chief Justice wants to see the prison population lowered and low level inmates given a chance at job training instead of incarceration.

Should a 17 year old offender be sent to an adult prison? A recent study conducted on behalf of the state legislature showed some interesting results.

Bernard Pritchard, a prison inmate at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., is claiming he is being discriminated against. He says he is not being afforded the necessary means to practice his religion of Satanism and is suing to secure that, according to KRQE-TV and The Santa Fe Reporter.

Louisiana lawmakers believe heroin is a scourge on the state. Therefore, in an attempt to combat this brown plague on society, which has caused a surge of overdose deaths across the state, legislators recently passed a bill aimed at whipping the problem at the source.

New legislation in Arizona allows the state’s Department of Corrections to impose a one-time “background check fee” of $25 on adults wishing to visit inmates at any of its 15 facilities. Needless to say, families and prisoner advocacy groups are not happy, citing the existing costs of traveling to visit loved ones housed in prisons that are often located in remote areas.

Kyle Richards, a prisoner awaiting sentence on a bank robbery conviction, claims he suffers from chronic masturbation syndrome and needs porn to manage his affliction. And since the 21-year old isn’t being provided access to pornography behind bars in Michigan’s Macomb County jail, he is suing the state and Gov. Rick Snyder for cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

High school senior Tyell Morton of Rushville, Indiana, is a good student who's never been in trouble, but not only will he miss graduation, he may go to prison for eight years.

Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil is going to spend two weeks behind bars for his DUI arrest this past June.