Prison Riot Injures 11:  A riot Sunday at California's Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and Prison in Corcoran sent 11 inmates to the hospital.  A story by Sanford Nax in the Fresno Bee reports that the riot involved 75 members of two Hispanic prison gangs.  The maximum-security facility, which houses 7,000 inmates, was placed in lockdown after the incident.  Prison officials recovered 28 inmate-made weapons and believe that the riot may have been planned. 

Mississippi DP Law Challenged:  The 5th Circuit is set to rule on a condemned murderer's claim that Mississippi's death penalty law is unconstitutional.  An story by AP writer Jack Elliott Jr., reports that Gerald James Holland, a 71 year-old Mississippi man convicted of the 1987 rape and murder of a 15 year-old girl, is seeking a decision to overturn the law.  Holland is arguing the law is unconstitutional because, at a court-required re-sentencing hearing held several years after his trial, he was not allowed to attack the introduction of the facts establishing his guilt.  At oral argument held last month, attorneys for Holland argued that, because the second sentencing jury was unfamiliar with his defense,  he should have been allowed to rebut the aggravating circumstance of rape.