More from this issue:

1. An Innocent Man Speaks: PLN Interviews Jeff Deskovic
2. Report: BOP Fails to Monitor Effects, Conditions of Segregated Housing, by Derek Gilna
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. Supreme Court Holds Padilla Not Retroactive, by Derek Gilna
5. Sixth Circuit Addresses Spoliation Sanction Standard
6. Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay, by Maya Schenwar
7. West Virginia Court-Supervised Parole and Condition Barring Association with Spouse Upheld
8. Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners, by John Dannenberg
9. Fourth Circuit: Sex Offender Registration Not "Custody" for Section 2254 Jurisdiction
10. Federal Court Rules Against Alabama DOC in Class-action HIV Discrimination Suit
11. Canadian Prisoners Receive $3.5 Million in Settlements, by Derek Gilna
12. HRDC Invited to Speak at Unprecedented FCC Workshop on Prison Phone Rates, by David Ganim
13. Fifth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of PLN's Censorship Suit Against TDCJ, by Matthew Clarke
14. Trial Held in Texas Prison Courtroom Not Open to the Public
15. Qualified Immunity Denied to Nurses who Ignored Prisoner's Symptoms of Active TB; $2.28 Million in Damages, Fees and Costs on Remand
16. Millions in Security Equipment Wasted at Rikers Island
17. Supreme Court Upholds DNA Collection as Part of Jail Booking Procedures, by J.R. Bloom
18. HRDC Receives First Amendment Award
19. New Tennessee Parole Board Members have Apparent Bias Against Granting Parole, by Alex Friedmann
20. No Justice: Sex Offenses, No Matter How Minor or Understandable, Can Ruin You for Life, by Charlotte Silver
21. California Jail Installs New Microgrid to Cut Energy Costs, by Derek Gilna
22. Genetic and DNA Evidence: The Emperor Has No Clothes, by Ernest P. Chiodo
23. Third Circuit: Requiring Admission of Guilt to Participate in Mandatory-for-Parole SOTP Not a Fifth Amendment Violation, by Matthew Clarke
24. Seventh Circuit Remands Illinois Prisoner's Hernia Case for New Trial
25. Montana Town Gives up on Failed Jail Venture
26. "Mere Possession" of a Prison Shank Constitutes a "Crime of Violence", by Derek Gilna
27. Seventh Circuit Remands Case Concerning Treatment of Prisoner's Hemorrhoids
28. Suicides at CCA-run ICE Detention Center Spark Investigation, by Derek Gilna
29. Longest-Serving Texas Prisoner Makes Parole; Other Long-term Prisoners Not so "Lucky"
30. DC Circuit: Qualified Immunity for Retroactive U.S. Parole Commission Regulations
31. Seventh Circuit: Health Hazard without Physical Injury Can State a Claim
32. Mexican Prison Guards Implicated in Deadly Riot
33. Blowup at KPFT Radio's "Prison Show" in Texas
34. Louisiana Supreme Court Reverses Sentence for Escape, but Sentence Affirmed on Remand
35. Seventh Circuit Asks Illinois Supreme Court to Interpret "Frivolous" Litigation Statute
36. New York Federal Court Finds Victim's Hearsay Accusation Insufficient in Prison Disciplinary Case; Suit Settles for $67,000, by Matthew Clarke
37. Jail Detainee Dies after Altercation with Deputies at Arizona Jail
38. Utah DOC Ends "English Only" Visitation Requirement, by Christopher Zoukis
39. News in Brief

More from Derek Gilna:

• Federal Judge in Louisiana Issues Sweeping Opinion Finding Numerous Eighth Amendment, ADA and RA Violations at Angola, April 1, 2022
• Human Rights Defense Center Prevails in Censorship Lawsuit Against Napa County Jail, California, Sept. 1, 2021
• California State Auditor’s Report Faults Counties for Waste and Poor Oversight of State Funds Used in “Public Safety Realignment”, Sept. 1, 2021
• The Fight Over Cellphones in Prisons Rages On, Sept. 1, 2021
• District Court Extends Armstrong Order to Five Additional California Prisons, Sept. 1, 2021
• HRDC Settles Censorship Lawsuit with Johnson County, Kansas Jail for $50,000 and Policy Changes, Aug. 1, 2021
• Virginia Prosecutors to Dismiss 400 Drug Convictions Tied to Disgraced Cop, July 15, 2021
• Discredited New York Police Detective’s False Testimony Causes the Dismissal of Close to 100 Drug Convictions, June 15, 2021
• D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences Firearms Examination Unit Under Fire, April 15, 2021
• Mississippi Joins Illinois and Few Other States Prioritizing Vaccination of State Prisoners to Slow Spread of COVID-19, April 1, 2021

More from these topics:

• Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee, April 1, 2024. Jail Specific, Prisoner Property, Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists.
• The Inevitability of Central Bank Digital Currencies and Their Threat to Human Rights, June 15, 2023. Money/Property, Digital Devices, Drug-Tainted Currency.
• Police Foundations: The Impossible Task of Separating the World of Policing From the World of Corporate Money, Jan. 15, 2023. Cost of Prison Systems, Money/Property, Corporate Victims.
• D.C. Jail Guard Arrested for Stealing Union Funds to Finance Lavish Entertainment, Jan. 4, 2023. Police Misconduct, Money/Property.
• Fifth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Louisiana Federal Prisoner’s Suit Challenging Disciplinary Sanction for Breaking CPAP Machine, March 28, 2022. Medical, Disciplinary Hearings, Money/Property.
• California Supreme Court Announces Conditioning Pretrial Release on Ability to Afford Bail Unconstitutional, May 15, 2021. Money/Property, Bail/Pretrial Release.
• Southern Republican Senators Generate Publicity by Criticizing Third Pandemic Relief Bill For Giving Payments to Prisoners, March 31, 2021. COVID-19, Money/Property, Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
• $1.5 million for Michigan man wrongfully convicted, then exonerated, Jan. 18, 2020. Wrongful Conviction, Money/Property.
• Virginia Circuit Court Awards $197.55 to Prisoner in Property Tort Claim, Jan. 8, 2020. Settlements, Money/Property.
• Federal Judge Allows 'Nationwide' Class-Action Lawsuit Against GEO Over Alleged Forced Labor on Prisoners, Dec. 30, 2019. GEO Group/Wackenhut, Work, Class Certification, Money/Property, Immigration.