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A Detroit teenager who helped the F-B-I as a drug informant in the 1980s is now suing federal agents and others for allegedly violating his civil rights.
Richard Wershe, Jr. is better-known as White Boy Rick.
When he was sentenced to life in prison for drug crimes in 1988, he was portrayed as a teenage drug kingpin, but Wershe was also an FBI informant.
His new lawsuit lays out how the FBI recruited him as an informant at the age of 14, setting him up in the drug world.
Wershe said the lawsuit is about closure. I want this chapter of my life closed. I want to forget about it. I want it to be gone, he said.
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The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, filed a lawsuit Monday against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Muslim and Moorish Science women who are being housed primarily at the MDOC s Women s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Pittsfield Township.
According to the complaint, the MDOC has a policy that forces female inmates to remove their religious head scarves, known as hijabs, to have an ID photo taken.The MDOC then places the photo on the women s identification cards which the women are requird to present to male and female guards and staff.