Each year, Missouri imprisons thousands men and women for violating the conditions of their parole — but a new class action lawsuit argues the parole revocation process is an "inscrutable and byzantine" journey that effectively drags parolees into the prison system while denying them of their rights to legal counsel.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court by the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, is the fifth legal attack launched by the civil rights group against Missouri's Department of Correction in the last eight months.…