More from this issue:

1. Days Without End: Life Sentences and Penal Reform, by Marie Gottschalk
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Family of Prisoner Strangled in Oklahoma GEO Private Prison Awarded $6.5 Million, by Matthew Clarke
4. Florida, Arizona Sell and Lease Back Prisons and Other State Buildings
5. The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit, by Alex Friedmann
6. Virginia Wrongful Death Jail Suit Against Correct Care Solutions Settled for $1 Million
7. Problems at North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab
8. Federal Judge Sanctions Florida Sheriff’s Attorney for Threatening Plaintiff with Arrest
9. PLN Wins $230,000 in Settlement that Ends Spokane, Washington Jail’s Postcard-Only Rule
10. Budget Crisis Closes Oregon Prison for First Time in 159 Years
11. Deaths at Texas Jail Reveal Health Care Deficiencies
12. California Prison Industry Authority Offers to Replace Offensive Grave Markers
13. Texas Prisoner’s Denial of Dentures Claim Affirmed in Part, Reversed in Part by Fifth Circuit
14. Oregon Prisoner Property Claims Cost State $60,000 Annually
15. Typewriters Alive and Well in American Prisons Despite Reports of Their Demise
16. Review: Directory of Inmate Shopping Services E-Commerce, by Michael Brodheim
17. Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Results in Demotions, Firings and $26,000 Fine, by Mark Wilson
18. California Criminalizes Cell Phone Smuggling, Seeks Technology to Block Cell Phone Calls from Prisons
19. North Carolina Warden Charged With Obstruction in Beating Coverup
20. BOP Fails to Prove Non-Exhaustion Following Pavey Hearing, by Mark Wilson
21. Illinois Prison Wages Cannot be Attached to Satisfy Incarceration Costs, by David Reutter
22. North Carolina Jury Awards $10 Million in Wrongful Death Suit Against Taser, by Matthew Clarke
23. Audit Finds California Prison Employees Routinely Work Less Than 40 Hours a Week
24. CMS Pays $275,000 in New York Prisoner’s Jail Death
25. Tennessee Court Again Orders CCA to Produce Records in PLN Public Records Case
26. Prisoner Bike Repair Program Benefits St. Louis Kids
27. Aramark Loses Laundry Contract to Oregon Prisoners
28. Russian Prison Officials Sentenced for Torture and Rape of Prisoners, by Matthew Clarke
29. California Muslim Prisoner Afforded Access to Kosher Diet Pending Implementation of “Religious Meat Alternate Program”
30. Head of Missouri Jail Sentenced for Beating, Arranging Attacks on Prisoners
31. Oregon Discontinues Failed Prisoner Deportation Program
32. Prisoners Contribute to Flood Control Efforts in Louisiana
33. 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 Again Revives Muslim Texas Prisoner’s Suit Over Halal Meals Denied During Hurricane Evacuation, May 1, 2023. Hurricane Katrina, Religious Diet.
• 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).
• Georgia Sheriff Agrees To Provide Muslim Prisoners With Halal Meals for Ramadan, Oct. 31, 2022. Settlements, Religious Diet.
• “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.
• Preliminary Injunction Granted to Illinois Prisoner to Receive Non-Allergenic Kosher Meals, May 1, 2022. Food, Religious Diet.