More from this issue:

1. The Restraint Chair: Safe and Humane?, by Anne-Marie Cusac
2. Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled
3. Deviant Doctors Dumped on Prisoners
4. Former Political Prisoner Settles Suit for $4.5 Million
5. Penis Stomping Guard Loses Appeal
6. PLN Sues Nevada DOP
7. WA and IN Prison Phone Rates Challenged
8. Pro Se Tips and Tactics, by John Midgley
9. The Ride: Rise of the NLR, by Willie Wisely
10. Colorado DOC Attacks Jailhouse Lawyers
11. Sex Offender Label May Require Due Process
12. Change in Fulton County, GA: Indigent Defense, HIV, and Community Organizing, by Lisa Zahren
13. Prison Physician Liable for Refusal of Care, by Ronald Young
14. Washington Earned Early Release Credits Create Due Process Liberty Interests, by Mark Cook
15. Fines Against WA Civil Commitment Center Stayed, by Dan Pens
16. U.S. Parole Commission Retaliation Reversed, by Scott Fleming
17. $53,000 Settlement in AL Conditions Suit
18. Counsel Awarded High EAJA Fee Despite Contingency Fee in BOP Rape Suit, by Mark Cook
19. Bush's Conservative Compassion: Allowing a Life Sentence for Three Bounced Checks
20. Censorship challenged in CO DOC
21. News in Brief
22. No Qualified Immunity from ETS Exposure
23. Two Guards Killed During Botched Missouri Jail Escape
24. Race-Based Religious Policy Violates Equal Protection Clause

More from these topics:

• Nebraska Supreme Court Announces ‘Working Days’ for Purposes of ‘Temporary Domicile’ SORA Reporting Requirement Means Weekdays, Excluding Legal Holidays, and Reverses Conviction for Failure to Register, March 15, 2025. Sex Offender Registration, Wrongful Conviction.
• Washington Prisoner Sues Jail Where Assault Left Him Comatose, DOC Guard Who Then Sexually Abused Him, March 1, 2025. Prisoner-Staff Assault, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Sex Offender Registration, Failure to Protect (General).
• Why Aren’t Eligible Individuals Taking Advantage of Expungement Laws?, Dec. 15, 2024. Discrimination, Restrictions, discrimination, Expungement/Removal.
• Incompetent Louisiana Sex Offender’s Challenge to Registration Requirements Proceeds, Dec. 15, 2024. Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sex Offense Registration Act (SORNA).
• Minnesota’s $100 Million-Per-Year Civil Commitment Program Has No “Discernible Impact” on Sex Crimes, Oct. 15, 2024. Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Databases, Civil Commitment.
• Sixth Circuit Strikes Retroactive Application of Parts of Tennessee’s Sweeping Sex Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Law, Oct. 1, 2024. Sex Offender Registration, Retroactivity.
• Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders, Oct. 1, 2024. Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Surgery, Sex Offender Treatment, Chemical Castration.
• Minnesota Sex Offender Program: The Indefinite Detention of the Reviled, Aug. 1, 2024. Sex Offender Registration, Civil Commitment, Sex Offender Classification.
• Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels, July 1, 2024. Sex Offender Registration, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Sex Offender Classification.
• New York Court of Appeals: SORA Designation Violates Defendant’s Due Process Rights Where Crime Involved No Sexual Contact or Motivation and Defendant Was Not a Sex Offender and Posed No Risk of Sexual Threat, May 15, 2024. Sex Offender Registration.