Hundreds of inmates in state prisons need special protection from gang paybacks. When officials tried to mix them in with the general-prison population, they filed suit--and won.
Statistics that showed Arizona had a seat belt usage rate of more than 95 percent a few years ago were probably bogus, says Alberto Gutier, director of the Governor's Office of Highway Safety.
Gutier, who was fired by Governor Janet Napolitano as highway office director in 2003, was reappointed to the post by Governor Jan Brewer about two months ago after working for six years as a lobbyist. He supports a primary seat belt for Arizona, which would allow police to pull drivers ov
