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Alabama DOC Charges Prisoners Unlawful Fees to Cover Budget Shortfalls

South Florida Federal Court Censors Online Plea Agreements

Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records

$2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s2004 Beating Death Revealed

My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders

Texas Prison Health Care: On the Brink of Unconstitutionality, Again

Georgia Prisoner Assaulted By Jailer Awarded $5,300

Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, by Mary Beth Pfieffer (Carroll & Graf, 2007, 280 pp. $15.95)

Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care

Deadly Staph Infection ‘Superbug’ Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails

CA Uses Jail Inmate Welfare Funds for Reentry; Expands Early Release for Permanently Disabled CDCR Prisoners

Nevada Criminalizes Cell Phones in State Prisons

Federal Jury Convicts California DOC Guards on Assault and Conspiracy Charges; Judge Tosses Verdict

PLN Sues Massachusetts DOC Over Book Ban, Added to Approved List One Week Later

The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, By Marie Gottschalk, Cambridge University Press, 451 pp.

Dallas County, Texas, Criticized for Offering Probation to Murder Defendants

Son of Illinois Congressman Fired, Charged With Raping Prisoners

Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants

Washington Study Finds Higher Recidivist Rate Amongst Sex Offenders Recommended, But Not Committed, For Civil Commitment

Florida Prison Still Beset by Contaminated Water

California Prison Beset by Deadly Valley Fever Epidemic

Eight Guards, Nurse Acquitted in Florida Child’s Beating Death

New Jersey Abolishes the Death Penalty

California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire

Think Outside The Cell: An Entrepreneur’s Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated, by Joseph Robinson, Resilience Multimedia, 270 pages