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JUSTICE IS BLAND: I eat Nutraloaf, the all-in-one "disciplinary loaf" served at Cook County JailInmates at Cook County Jail are allowed three privileges: television, books, and food. The staff has no compunction about denying its most difficult residents either of the first two, but under the Constitution, correctional facilities can’t withhold food. Nothing in the Eighth Amendment, however, says the food has to taste good. “This is not the Four Seasons,” says Tom Dart, the Cook County sheriff. “Inmates who are injuring people in jail will get their nutritional needs met, but we will not cater to their culinary desires.”...

It's one of the rarest occurances in public schools; teachers committing violence against students. But a Montgomery mother says her fifteen year old special needs son is a victim twice over; once when a teacher hit him with a broom stick, and a second time as the target of intimidation. It's been a month since Veronica McDaniel first claimed teacher Felix Tyre hit her son in the head with a broomstick at Goodwyn Junior High. Since then, she says the 15 year old has gotten scared. "He is afraid of him. He really doesn't want to go to school there....

Teacher reinstated after saying most misbehaving kids are black A teacher in the US has been reinstated despite saying most of the badly behaved students in his school are black. Scott Phelps's statement caused uproar at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, with some critics calling for his dismissal. Mr Phelps was placed on paid leave last week for making the following statement in a letter to his fellow teachers. It read: "Overwhelmingly, the students whose behaviour makes the hallways deafening, who yell out for the teacher and demand immediate attention in class, who cannot seem to stop chatting and...