A legal expert says the state’s proposals, scheduled for a public hearing Monday, would prohibit contact with the outside world, but a corrections official says that’s not the intent.

The agreement will cost the city $56,500 and comes after a judge ruled an ordinance setting a buffer zone around Planned Parenthood offices violated their rights.

The new rules are vaguely written, and the Department of Corrections has explained little about the draft discipline policy that it intends to air at a public hearing Monday.

A Navy search vessel carrying sonar equipment is forced to take an alternate route toward the cargo ship’s suspected wreckage site in the Bahamas.