More from this issue:

1. Three Strikes and You're Out, Again, by Ed Mead
2. Release Not Appropriate Relief for Beatings
3. Prison Escapes and Killings Down
4. 24 Cops Killed in First Half of 1992
5. Inquiry Stepped up in Georgia Prison Sex Case
6. VA Builds More Prisons
7. NY Corrections Commissioner Pleads Guilty
8. NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit
9. Death Row Prisoners Can Marry
10. Denial of Winter Clothing Cruel and Unusual
11. Punishment of Pretrial Detainees Unlawful
12. Change in IFP Status Does Not Require Fee Payment
13. Right to Religious Diet Clearly Established
14. Confiscation of Law Books States Claim
15. Infraction Suits Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
16. Wisconsin Lacks Adequate State Remedies for Due Process Violations
17. Nominal Damages Awarded in Prison Rape Case
18. State Liable for County Jail Overcrowding
19. Damages Awarded to HIV+ Jail Prisoner
20. Blind Pretrial Detainees Entitled to Treatment
21. DOC Phone Rip Off, by Paul Wright
22. From The Editor, by Paul Wright
23. AT&T Exploits Prison Labor
24. Peruvian Political Prisoners Mistreated, by Paul Wright
25. Prison Riot Crushed in Venezuela
26. New Video Tape Available
27. Article Clarification Revisited, by RK

More from these topics:

• Fourth Circuit Upholds Denial of Qualified Immunity to Jail Supervisors Who Ignored Detainee’s Cranial Abscesses, Oct. 1, 2026. Failure to Treat, Infections, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Deliberate Indifference.
• Ninth Circuit Refuses to Stay Injunction in Detainees’ Challenge to Conditions at California ICE Lockup, Oct. 1, 2026. GEO Group/Wackenhut, Sanitation, Injunctions, Fifth Amendment, Immigration Detention.
• Sixth Circuit: Qualified Immunity Granted to Guard in Delayed Treatment for Prisoner who Suffered Heart Attack, Oct. 1, 2026. Pain, Cardiovascular, Failure to Treat, Qualified Immunity, Deliberate Indifference.
• Federal Court Orders Texas to Admit Incompetent Jailed Defendants to Mental Health Facilities Within 21 Days, Oct. 1, 2026. Staffing, Injunctions, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Pretrial Detention and Detainees, Competency.
• Ninth Circuit Rules Favorably for Washington Prisoner Whose Writing Submission Was Censored, Oct. 1, 2026. Retaliation, Qualified Immunity, Mail Regulations, Censorship, First Amendment, rights.
• Eighth Circuit Reverses District Court’s Denial of Motion to Dismiss Some Defendants from Lawsuit Over Missouri Prisoner’s Suicide, Oct. 1, 2026. Qualified Immunity, Sovereign Immunity, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides, Deliberate Indifference.
• Second Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity but Clarifies that 14th Amendment ‘Objective Reasonableness’ Is Standard of Review for Pretrial Detainee’s Claim of Sexual Abuse, Oct. 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Pretrial Detention and Detainees, Wrongful Use of Force.
• Eighth Circuit Grants Summary Judgment to Sheriff and County of Nebraska Jail Where Guard Sexually Assaulted Female Prisoner, Oct. 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Qualified Immunity, Failure to Train/Supervise, Monell Liability.
• Second Circuit Rules Eighth Amendment Governs Claims of Excessive Force Brought by Parole Violator, Oct. 1, 2026. Eighth Amendment, Excessive Force, Qualified Immunity, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
• With Prisons Full, Idaho DOC Requests $45 Million for Three New Facilities, Oct. 1, 2026. Cost of Prison Systems, Overcrowding.