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From the Editor
The cover story of this month’s issue of Prison Legal News is no surprise to our readers. The pay-to-stay luxury jails in Southern California first came to my attention over a year ago when a reporter from the Los Angeles Times called to ask me for a comment on the ...
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More from this issue:
- Celebrity Justice: Prison Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, by Matthew Clarke
- California Uses $1.08 Billion in Federal Stimulus Funds to Pay Prison Guard Salaries, by Michael Brodheim
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- New Medical Director at Texas Jail Previously Sanctioned
- U.S. Supreme Court to Review California Prison Population Reduction Orders, by John Dannenberg
- Florida Prison Psychiatrist Resigns; License Revoked Over Sex with Patient, by David Reutter
- Dallas County Jail Settles Three Medical-Related Suits for $795,000
- Florida’s Civil Rights Restoration Process Insufficiently Funded, by David Reutter
- Convictions Upheld in Appeal of Lynne Stewart, Attorney to Blind Sheikh, but Case Remanded for Resentencing, by Justin Miller
- Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman Resigns Following Smuggling Indictment, by Matthew Clarke
- Kentucky Lethal Injection Protocol Adopted in Violation of APA, by Brandon Sample
- Pennsylvania County Jail Settles Medical Indifference Suit for $55,000
- Eighth Circuit Upholds $2,501 Retaliation Judgment Against Arkansas Prison Guard
- Indiana Sex Offender Registration Law Can Not Be Retroactively Applied
- Valley Fever Cases at California Prison Increase in 2009
- Release Conditions Requiring Defendant to Tell Probation Officer about Romantic Relationships Vacated
- Only Three States in Compliance with Unfunded Federal Sex Offender Mandates, by Matthew Clarke
- DNA Exonerations in Georgia Result in Disparate Compensation Awards, by David Reutter
- Guilty Pleas in Angola Horse Selling Scheme, by David Reutter
- San Francisco Settles Wrongful Incarceration Cases for $7.5 Million, by Michael Brodheim
- Canyon County Jail in Idaho Settles Conditions Suit With Consent Decree and $190,000 in Attorney’s Fees, by Brandon Sample
- U.S. Senator’s Girlfriend, In-Law Get Department of Justice Jobs, by Brandon Sample
- U.S. Department of Justice Releases Report on HIV in Prisons
- South Carolina Settles Prisoner Stabbing Death Lawsuit for $47,500
- California County Jail Settles Wrongful Death Suit for $600,000
- Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million
- CCA Pays $70,000 in Damages, Attorney Fees to Settle PLN Censorship Suit, by Alex Friedmann
- Prison-based Call Centers Open in Austria, India, by Matthew Clarke
- New York Prisoner Beaten, Guards Convicted, GEO Settles Suit for $80,000, by Matthew Clarke
- California Counties Vie to House ICE Prisoners, by Michael Brodheim
- New Jersey DOC Agrees to Let Prisoner Preach
- Erroneously Released Texas Prisoner Entitled to Credit on Sentence, by Matthew Clarke
- Media Agencies Intervene to Unseal Records in Prisoner’s Wrongful Death Suit, by Brandon Sample
- Sacramento County Partially Settles Taxpayer Suit Alleging Il-legal Conditions of Confinement in Juvenile Facilities, by Michael Brodheim
- Oregon Offers Early Release to Illegal Immigrants Who Consent to Deportation, by Michael Brodheim
- The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia Abu-Jamal Under the Bus, by Dave Lindorff
- CMS Nurse Denied Summary Judgment for Failure to Treat Prisoner for Heat Illness;$400,000 Settlement Following Sixth Circuit Ruling, by David Reutter
- Wisconsin County Pays $750,000 to Settle Jail Sex Abuse Suit
- Marsy’s Law Enjoined in California, by Michael Brodheim
- Arkansas Federal Jury Awards $261,000 to Male Prisoner Raped by Male Guard
- One in Six HIV-Infected Americans Spent Time in Prison or Jail in 2006, by Michael Brodheim
- Houston Police Department Conducted Blood Draw Training on Prisoners, by Greg Dober
- Second Circuit Ruling in Post-9/11 Immigration Detention Case, by Matthew Clarke
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Sheriff May Not Charge Jail Fees, by Matthew Clarke
- Former New York Corrections Commissioner Receives Four-Year Prison Sentence, by Matthew Clarke
- Sixth Circuit: No Eleventh Amendment Immunity When ADA Claim Includes Fourteenth Amendment Violations, by Matthew Clarke
- Georgia Officials Receive Prison Sentences in Charge-Fixing Scheme
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