A federal judge has certified 10,000 registered sex offenders in Georgia as a class for a lawsuit challenging the state's new sex offender law according to a story by Jill Young Miller in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

A California prison inmate serving time for two previous murders has been convicted of the murder of his cellmate. The details are reported by Ramon Coronado in the Sacramento Bee. One wonders if a sentence of life in prison would deter this fellow from killing again.

Federal authorities have broken up a multi-state enterprise which operated brothels using illegal immigrants as prostitutes according to an Associate Press story in the Dallas Morning News.

Jackson Mississippi Mayor Frank Melton has been accused by the national ACLU of racial profiling in his effort to reduce crime according to an Associated Press story by Shelia Byrd published in the Seattle Post Intelliegencer.