More from this issue:

1. Bag'm, Tag'm and Bury'm; Wisconsin Prisoners Dying for Health Care, by Dan Pens
2. WA Law Libraries Threatened; DOC Proposes Budget Cuts
3. Food Strike Puts Washington DOC on Spin Control, by Dan Pens
4. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
5. Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower, by Dan Pens
6. $330,000 Verdict in MI Beating
7. $4,500 Verdict in NY Hernia Suit
8. WA DOC Whistleblowers Speak Out: Is Anyone Listening?, by Paul Wright
9. CA Medical Lab Faked Prison Tests, by Marvin Mentor
10. AZ Prisoners Can't Access Internet, But the Net Accesses Them
11. $5,500 Awarded in NY Unlawful Imprisonment Suit
12. $160,000 Verdict in NY Diabetic Cyst Suit
13. $115,000 Settlement Where Guards Fed NY Prisoner Ground Glass
14. The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics and Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom
15. MO Prisoner Awarded $130,000 in Retaliation and Haircut Claims
16. Ohio Abandons Private Food Service Experiment
17. Tide Turns Against Prison Privatization
18. SC Jail Escape Kills One
19. IL Prison Phone Ruling Published
20. OH S.Ct. Strikes Down Bad Time Law
21. News in Brief
22. Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison
23. No Qualified Immunity for Alabama Blanket Strip-Search Policy
24. Yeskey Dismissed on Remand
25. Mentally Ill Prisoners in the New Jersey Prison System, by Julia Lutsky
26. Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons
27. $7,500 Paid to Settle Delay of Legal Property Suit
28. Louisiana Abandons Private Juvenile Prisons, by John E Dannenberg
29. A.I. Reports on US Compliance with UN Convention Against Torture, by Julia Lutsky
30. $8,000 Awarded in NY Chair Collapse
31. Ninth Circuit Requires Evidentiary Review Before Terminating Old Consent Decree Under PLRA
32. $7,500 Award in NY Window Injury
33. $1.75 Million Verdict in Juvenile Death Suit
34. $30,000 Awarded to NY Prisoner Slashed in Attack
35. BOP Prisoners' Convictions for Destroying Military Factory Upheld
36. $49,999 Settlement in CA Sex Extortion Suit
37. Conditions Claims Viable in WA PRP
38. Failure to Exhaust Requires Hearing Before Dismissal
39. Leave to Amend Complaint Improperly Denied
40. $158,500 Awarded in NY Slip and Fall
41. Summary Judgment Reversed on Diabetes Claim
42. Book Review: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing, by Mumia Abu-Jamal

More from these topics:

• Louisiana Bars Problem Doctors from Practicing Medicine in Most Hospitals. So They Treat Incarcerated People Instead., Sept. 1, 2021. Medical, COVID-19.
• Decapitated Prisoner Shows CDCR Safety Standards Still Headed in the Wrong Direction, Sept. 1, 2021. Guard Misconduct, Private Contractors, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death).
• Prisoner’s Suicide in Sherburne County Minnesota Jail Results in $2.3 Million Settlement, Sept. 1, 2021. Private Contractors, Settlements, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides.
• Virginia Votes to Abolish Death Penalty, July 1, 2021. Death Penalty, State Legislation.
• GEO Group Puts Money, Lobbyist into Defeating Bill to Prohibit Private Prisons in Virginia, June 1, 2021. Private Prisons, Lobbying, State Legislation.
• Resources for Understanding Today’s Prison System, June 1, 2021. Resources, Advocacy.
• Sixth Circuit Upholds Prisoner’s 18 U.S.C. § 111 Conviction for Assaulting Federally Contracted Private Prison Guard, April 1, 2021. Private Contractors, Guards/Staff, Failure to Protect (Staff).
• Ransomware Attack on GEO Group Exposes Sensitive Information, April 1, 2021. GEO Group/Wackenhut, Private Contractors.
• Eighth Circuit Dismisses Hormone Therapy Suit as Moot When Arkansas Prison Officials, March 22, 2021. Medical, Hygiene Supplies, Transgender.
• Reuters Investigation: Lamentable Medical Care in Jails and Prisons Exposed During Pandemic, March 1, 2021. Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, COVID-19, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.