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Daniel Johnson, serving a life sentence in Texas’s Huntsville prison for a 1977 rape, filed a $50,000 lawsuit against the prison in August to force officials to curb excessive noise from late-night TV in prison lounges. Johnson claimed “deprivations of needed rest and sleep, nervous tension, severe anxiety, feelings of depression, dejection, fatigue, emotional pain and torment, [and] headaches.”
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Among the name-change proceedings taking place in Santa Clara, California, in July was the petition by a young boy, originally named Pitbull Shotgun Collier, to change his name to Peter Collier.
From the corrections column in a July Fresno (California) Bee: “An item in Thursday’s [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts ‘back in the African-American.’ The item should have said, ‘back in the black.’”
