More from this issue:

1. Status of Reformatory Crowding Litigation, by Ed Mead
2. Grievance Standards Changed
3. Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State, by Ed Mead
4. Parolees Have a Right to Bodily Privacy
5. Transferred Con Has Right to Books of Sending State
6. Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail
7. Medication Must Be Delivered in Timely Manner
8. Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation
9. Expungement of Infraction Reversed
10. Federal Prisoners Must Exhaust Habeas Before Filing Suit
11. State Judges Can Be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court
12. Parole Officers Can Be Sued
13. BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
14. Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed
15. Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils
16. Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services
17. Resistance at Lexington, by Laura Whitehorn
18. Editorial, by Ed Mead
19. Committee Formed to Defend Abimael Guzman
20. Walla Walla News
21. Perotti Needs Help, by John Perotti

More from these topics:

• Sixth Circuit Holds Dismissal Not Automatic When Plaintiff Simultaneously Files Same Claims in State Court, Aug. 1, 2025. Retaliation, Court Access, Grievances, Mail.
• Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm 
for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail, July 15, 2025. Attorney Client, Legal Materials, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail.
• Arkansas DOC Settles Retaliation Claim by Prisoner 
Who Also Won Back Confiscated COVID-19 Stimulus, June 1, 2025. Retaliation for Organizing, Legal Materials, Legal Mail.
• Seventh Circuit Lets BOP Restrict Access to Federal Register from Prison in Illinois, Dec. 15, 2024. Court Access, Administrative Procedures Act (State), Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
• Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath, May 1, 2024. RICO, Telephone Rates, Civil RICO, HRDC Litigation, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Second Circuit Revives N.Y. Prisoner’s Suit Over Sing Sing Fire, 11 Other Prisoners Split $220,000 Settlement, Jan. 1, 2024. Failure to Protect (General), Fire Hazards, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Summary Judgment, Evidentiary Ruling, Administrative Exhaustion.
• 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.
• Fourth Circuit: Federal Prisoner in North Carolina Making Rehabilitation Act Claim Must Exhaust Both BOP Grievance Process and Justice Department’s EEO Complaint Process, Aug. 15, 2023. Administrative Exhaustion, Grievances, Rehabilitation Act.
• Seventh Circuit Allows Illinois Prisoner to Prove Administrative Remedy Was “Unavailable” in Double-Celling Complaint, June 15, 2023. Overcrowding, Administrative Exhaustion, Administrative Procedures Act (State).
• Ninth Circuit: Grievance Policy May Excuse Oregon Prisoner’s Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies, May 1, 2023. Administrative Exhaustion, Grievances, Exhaustion of Remedies.