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FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2010, inmates return to their cells at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise, Idaho. Attorneys for the Idaho Department of Correction say inmates exaggerated problems with the prison medical care system and waited too long to complain, and as a result prison officials shouldn't be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement in a decades-old class action lawsuit. The court documents were filed late last week in federal court. They mark the latest twist in a lawsuit first brought by inmates in 1981 that contends unconstitutionally poor medical care was provided to prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2017 file photo Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women's March on Washington, speaks during an interview in New York. The Muslim-American activist was scheduled to speak at a college commencement ceremony in New York City on Thursday, June 1, 2017, despite protests from critics who don't like her views on Israel. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Different printings of a statistics textbook authored by Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty sit amid other books in Corty's office in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty poses for a photo on campus in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty speaks during an interview in office in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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Senators discuss budget details ahead of the Senate Finance Committee's vote on its version of next year's $29 billion state operating budget, on Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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In this Sunday, July 24, 2016 photo provided by Niels Alpert, Betsy Davis poses for a photo with her longtime friend Susan Delmonico during her "Right To Die Party" in Ojai, Calif. At the end of the party, the 41-year-old woman diagnosed with ALS took a cocktail of lethal drugs and died, becoming one of the first California residents to take life-ending drugs under a new law that gave such an option to the terminally ill. At least 504 terminally ill Californians have requested a prescription for life-ending drugs since a state law allowing physician-assisted deaths went into effect in June 2016. (Niels Alpert via AP)
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In this Sunday, July 24, 2016 photo provided by Niels Alpert, Betsy Davis, smiles during her "Right To Die Party" in Ojai, Calif. At the end of the party, the 41-year-old woman diagnosed with ALS took a cocktail of lethal drugs and died, becoming one of the first California residents to take life-ending drugs under a new law that gave such an option to the terminally ill. At least 504 terminally ill Californians have requested a prescription for life-ending drugs since a state law allowing physician-assisted deaths went into effect in June 2016. (Niels Alpert via AP)
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a Princeton University instructor who called President Trump a racist, sexist "megalomaniac" during a recent commencement address, has canceled two public talks this week, claiming a Fox News report on her speech led to death threats. (YouTube/@Hampshire College TV)
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In this July 10, 2003, file photo, Martina Navratilova of the Philadelphia Freedoms reacts after a shot in her team tennis match against Hartford Fox-Force, in Radnor, Pa. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, Australian tennis great Margaret Court looks on during the official launch of the remodeled Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Martina Navratilova has written an open letter criticizing Margaret Court's comments about same-sex marriage and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and recommending that tennis officials rename the arena that bears the Australian great's name at Melbourne Park. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
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FILE - In this April 21, 2017, file photo, Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Corey Kluber throws against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago. Kluber comes off the disabled list Thursday, June 1, to make his first major league start since May 2 when the Indians host Oakland. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo, Rohin Sarin, front row right, and his classmates listen to their math teacher inside a classroom in New Delhi, India. Rohin is one of a growing number of Indians with diabetes, with the disease increasingly afflicting children and adolescents in the fast-growing South Asian country. Nearly 30 percent of India’s teenagers are obese, nearly twice the number in 2010, according to health ministry statistics. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Rohin Sarin injects insulin into his arm at his house in New Delhi, India. Rohin is one of a growing number of Indians with diabetes, with the disease increasingly afflicting children and adolescents in the fast-growing South Asian country. Nearly 30 percent of India’s teenagers are obese, nearly twice the number in 2010, according to health ministry statistics. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
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Gov. Kate Brown, seated, signs House Bill 2673 in Salem, Ore., Wednesday, May 31, 2017, making the process more private for transgender individuals to change their birth certificate records. The new law makes Oregon the second state with an alternative option for transgender people to update their birth records. (AP Photo/Kristena Hansen)
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In this photo taken May 30, 2016, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Zacnite Vargas and Fatima Vargas, 16, speak at a news conference Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn., urging the city council to adopt sanctuary city-like standards. Zacnite Vargas came to the United States from Mexico at age 3 with her mother and father. She is in the country under former President Barack Obama's order protecting children in her situation from deportation for two years, while letting them work. Fatima Vargas is a U.S. citizen. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Lower Southampton Police Department shows Lee Kaplan of Feasterville, Pa. The mother of six girls Kaplan is accused of assaulting, fathering two children by one, says she knew about the sexual activity but believed it “could be a good thing.” Fifty-two-year-old Kaplan is on trial in Bucks County on rape and sexual-assault charges. (Lower Southampton Police Department via AP, File)
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In this May 12, 2017, photo, Bobbie Jo Lowe holds a DVD with a photo of her daughter Alexis Kohlman, in her Port Clinton, Ohio, home. After Kohlman died in January from an infection caused by drug abuse, Lowe decided to open the first women's recovery home in Port Clinton. The home, called Alexis House, will help women struggling with addiction reintegrate into society. (Andy Morrison/The Blade via AP)
