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:

• California Appeals Court Holds Defendant Cannot Be Penalized for Failing to Appear at Sentencing When He Was Being Held in Another County’s Jail on Preexisting Charges, July 1, 2026. Disciplinary Hearings, Due Process, Procedural Default/Error, Evidence - Admissibility, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
• Louisiana’s Atavistic Approach to Criminal Sentencing and Parole Demonstrates Politicians’ Failure to Learn from Past Mistakes, July 1, 2026. Medical, Conditions of Confinement, Sentencing, Parole, Prisoners' Rights.
• California Appeals Court Sustains Amendments to CDCR that Narrow Youth Parole Eligibility Rules, July 1, 2026. Parole, Equal Protection Clause/Claims, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders, Credits, Prison Regulations.
• Sixth Circuit Rules Prisoner Held After Parole Board Ordered Release on Parole Could Not State a Rights Violation Claim, June 1, 2026. Parole, Overdetention, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights.
• California Spends $300 Million Each Year Incarcerating Senior Citizens in Women’s Prisons, April 1, 2026. Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Totality of Conditions, Parole, Life without Parole (LWOP), Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Colorado Law Intended to Reduce Prison Population Hasn’t Improved Conditions, March 1, 2026. Overcrowding, Parole, halfway houses, Reduction of Prison Population.
• Alaska Prisoner’s Discipline for Violating Invalidated Rule Tossed, March 1, 2026. Disciplinary Hearings, Access to Media, Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Authority and Jurisdiction, Administrative Detention/Segregation.
• Seventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment in Illinois Prisoner’s Segregation Lawsuit, March 1, 2026. Liberty Interests, Evidence, Totality of Conditions, Ad-Seg Hearings, Administrative Detention/Segregation.
• Maine Was the First State to Abolish Parole. Incarcerated Mainers, Advocates Hope to Bring it Back., March 1, 2026. Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Parole, Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, De Facto Life Sentence.
• Colorado Lawmakers Approve Prison Bed Funding, Despite DOC Understaffing, March 1, 2026. Overcrowding, Staffing, Parole, Overdetention, Reduction of Prison Population.