More from this issue:

1. US Supreme Court: Oklahoma Pre-Parole Program Requires Hearing Before Removal
2. California PIA Employees Lose Minimum Wage Suit
3. Consent Decrees Create Enforceable Right
4. Notes from the Unrepenitentiary: " Schooling the generations in the politics of prison", by Laura Whitehorn
5. Matter of Fact
6. Sixth Circuit Defines Legal Mail
7. PLRA Codifies Injunction Standards in Conditions Case
8. PLRA Applied to Released Prisoners
9. Indiana Muslim Consent Decree Vacated under PLRA
10. PLRA Allows Sua Sponte Dismissal
11. PLRA Fee Requirements Not Applicable to Pending Suits
12. PLRA Confuses Courts; Applies Only to Prisoners
13. Ninth Circuit Affirms BOP Sentence Reductions
14. Drug Policy as Social Control, by Noam Chomsky
15. Virginia Warden Stabbed, by Dan Pens
16. Should Prisoners Have the Right to Strike? Some Union Leaders Say "Yes!", by Phil Wilayto
17. Texas Prisoners Get Second-Rate Doctors
18. New Jersey Prison Guard Recruiting for KKK
19. Update on Washington Money Seizure Suit, by Paul Wright
20. Democracy, Racism and Disenfranchisement
21. Reviews
22. Illinois DOC Phone System Upheld
23. Moors Settle with Indiana DOC
24. Seventh Circuit Questions ADA Applicability to Prisons
25. Disciplinary Finding Must Be Supported by Reliable Evidence
26. Qualified Immunity for Infraction Suit
27. No Care for STD Violates Eighth Amendment
28. $1.65 Million Jury Verdict in Cell Assignment Case Affirmed
29. Racial Rioting Erupts in L.A. Jail
30. Mental Unhealth and Prisons, by E.D.
31. Guard Tower Scam, by A.L.
32. Do the Math, by E.D.
33. News in Brief
34. RFRA Allows Redaction of Religious Publication
35. TRO Granted in DC Smoking Suit
36. Washington EFV Ban Upheld
37. $75,000 Jury Verdict in Prisoner Attack Affirmed

More from these topics:

• Ninth Circuit Rules Favorably for Washington Prisoner Whose Writing Submission Was Censored, Oct. 1, 2026. Retaliation, Qualified Immunity, Mail Regulations, Censorship, First Amendment, rights.
• Idaho Supreme Court Holds Indigent Parents Have Constitutional Right to Counsel at Public Expense, July 1, 2026. Court Access, Appeals/Appellate Jurisdiction, Constitutional Challenges/Law, Counsel - Right to, Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions.
• Texas Prison System Bans Prisoners from Receiving Hardback and Used Books, July 1, 2026. Reading Materials, Legal Materials, Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Censorship.
• Illinois Jail Reprimanded for Denying Detainees Mail Based on Media Content, P.O. Box Return Address, Settles Detainees’ Suit with $111,825 Payment of Legal Fees, May 1, 2026. Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• ICE Settles Suit Over Opening Detainees’ Legal Mail, April 1, 2026. Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, First Amendment, rights, Immigration Detention, Attorney/Client.
• Like Prisoners, Most Jail Detainees Now Banned from Receiving Physical Mail, March 1, 2026. Jail Specific, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, Censorship, Digital Devices, Private Phone Contractors.
• Mail Went Digital in Alabama Prisons. Families Are Saying Their Mail Isn’t Being Delivered, March 1, 2026. Mail Regulations, Legal Mail, First Amendment, rights, Access To Courts, Access to Computers.
• Number of Narcan Doses Raises Drug Concerns at New Jersey Prisons, March 1, 2026. Drug Overdose, Mail Regulations, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Administrative Detention/Segregation.
• Most U.S. Prisoners Now Barred from Directly Receiving Physical Mail, Feb. 1, 2026. Mail Regulations, Due Process, Legal Mail, Censorship, Warrantless Searches, Electronic Surveillance.
• United States Postal Service Declares Postmarks Could Be Delayed, Feb. 1, 2026. Mail Regulations, Due Process, Legal Mail, Access To Courts.