(FORTUNE Magazine) – Anthony Jones has a problem. The Chicagoan sued the state in January for not letting him wear a training bra, panties, and mascara in his cell at the maximum-security Pontiac Correctional Center, where he is serving 80 years for murdering his 92-year- old grandmother . . . ''Just as every man has every right in the world to wear pants, then so do I have every right in the world to wear a dress,'' Jones, 30, wrote in his suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Peoria . . . U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade ((has)) dismissed Jones's claims that he has a right to conjugal visits . . . But McDade . . . said federal law allowed Jones to proceed on his allegation that the state had violated his First Amendment rights by not letting him wear women's clothing and makeup . . . The number of prisoner lawsuits has tripled in the last decade. -- From a news report in the Chicago Tribune.