More from this issue:

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

More from these topics:

• Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard, March 1, 2024. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Injunctions, RLUIPA, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Right to Grow a Beard.
• Florida Prisoners Not Required to File Rulemaking Petition to Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement, Jan. 1, 2024. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Administrative Exhaustion, RLUIPA, Administrative Procedures Act (State), Right to Grow a Beard.
• New Jersey Prisoner’s Suit Survives Seeking to Validate the Nation of Gods and Earth as a Religion, Dec. 1, 2023. RLUIPA, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• Fifth Circuit Revives Suit by Nation of Gods and Earth Prisoner Demanding Religious Recognition by Texas Prison Officials, May 1, 2023. Religious Freedom, Denial of Religious Services.
• Fifth Circuit: Texas Prison Property Rules Withstand Scrutiny Under Religious Free-Exercise Clause, March 1, 2023. Religious Freedom, Religious Property.
• Second Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Wardens Accused of Violating Religious Freedom of Muslim Prisoners in Connecticut, Jan. 1, 2023. Religious Discrimination, Religious Freedom, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified, Religious Freedom/Worship, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• “One of the Most Egregious Violations of Church-State Separation” Prisons Welcome Fundamentalist Christian Education Programs Despite Conflicts with the Constitution, July 15, 2022. Religious Freedom, Religious Practices.
• Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted, Nov. 1, 2021. Corrections Audits, BOP Litigation Reports, Clergy.
• Ninth Circuit Reverses Lower Court’s Dismissal of California Prisoner’s Religious Freedom Lawsuit, Feb. 1, 2021. Religious Freedom, Tolling of Statutes of Limitations and Laches, Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).
• For Some Faiths in Los Angeles County Jails, Volunteer Chaplains Are in Short Supply, Dec. 1, 2020. Denial of Religious Services, Clergy.