...rules governing furloughs for federal inmates have not been implemented some seven years after they were drafted: Prison administrators are incompetent; union rules are impossibly cumbersome; or both. Under any scenario, the delay is absurd...

...prison, eight people were arrested for breaking through police lines and a juvenile was arrested for assaulting a prison administrator. Other activists burned American flags. Protests were also held in Austin and as far away as San Francisco and...

...Abdel-Rahman, 63, is serving a life sentence at Rochester for plotting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Prison administrators said Wednesday that transferring Abdel-Rahman would violate public information rules. "The location of an...

...rules governing furloughs for federal inmates have not been implemented some seven years after they were drafted: Prison administrators are incompetent; union rules are impossibly cumbersome; or both. Under any scenario, the delay is absurd...