Latest News What happens when you find out you just hired a ‘sex offender’? From Prison Legal News Over $1.1 Million Recovered for Rikers Island Janitors$875,000 Award for Illinois Prisoner’s Delay in Getting Hernia SurgerySalvadoran President’s Dark Secret Allegedly Behind Deal to Hold Deported Migrants in “Mega” PrisonFifth Circuit Refuses to Stop Court-Ordered Construction of Mental Health Facility at New Orleans JailNinth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail From the Charles Koch Institute American prisons house more than 1.5 million individuals, an increase of more than 390 percent since 1978.