Richard Durbin actually said...

the safety and security of the people who are working in our prisons is the highest priority

the safety of America at large, of course, is an equally important priority

In June of 2006, a bipartisan national task force, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, released its recommendations aft...

I can recall, just as an aside, that in 1970, then-Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon took me, a young lawyer fresh out of law school, on an ons...