Michael Winerip and Michael Schwirtz report in The New York Times that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered a statewide inquiry into allegations of pervasive racial bias by prison guards in New York State were published last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered a statewide inquiry from the state inspector general’s office. The story suggests that usually a civil rights investigation this large -- there are 54 New York prisons, with 50,000 inmates and 20,000 corrections officers -- would be investigated by federal prosecutors with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a district court judge. Instead, the staff of just 109 at the state inspector general’s office will look into the issue. The office took a year to look into a single prison in its last major inquiry. Read the full story in The New York Times.