Crime

Legal group seeks federal inquiry into Mississippi prisons

The letter says the low number of staff makes it impossible for guards to manage the prisons, and that gang control and inmate-on-inmate violence “is the predictable and preventable result of abdication of control of the facility.”

Carlos Ghosn after planning escape, now plots a press conference

Carlos Ghosn’s escape to Lebanon from Japan followed weeks of planning by associates aimed at getting the former auto executive to a country they believed would provide a more friendly legal environment to try the claims of financial wrongdoing against him, according to people familiar with the matter.