More from this issue:

1. Prison Health Services: As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence
2. Fatal Justice: The New Maryland, by Michael Rigby
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees
5. Former Connecticut Governor Rowland Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charges in Juvenile Prison Kickback Scheme
6. Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner Settles Use-Of-Force Suit For $15,000
7. $600,000 Settlement In Death Of Unmedicated Wisconsin Prisoner
8. Federal Prisoner Wins Right To Marry, Fees Awarded
9. $99,981 In Fees Awarded For Successful Massachusetts Court Access Suit, by Michael Rigby
10. Prison Health Services: Missed Signals in New York Jails Open Way to Season of Suicides
11. Settlements Reached In Alabama Women Prisoners' Class-Action Suit
12. CCA Finally Loses Contract at Mismanaged Tulsa Jail
13. U.S. Supreme Court: Michigan Appellate Attorneys Have
14. New Hampshire Prisoner's Due Process Suit Nets $54,000 in Fees and Damages
15. $800,000 Awarded to Wrongly Convicted Tennessee Man
16. Texas Attorney General Clarifies Confiscation Law Governing Prisoner Art Sales, by Michael Rigby
17. National Prison Reform Commission Started, by Margo Schlanger
18. Michigan Guard Who Procured Hit On Prisoner Must Pay $200,000 Damages
19. Fifth Circuit Upholds $5,000 Excessive Force Verdict Against Wackenhut Guard
20. New York Senator Returned To Jail After Illegal Release, by Michael Rigby
21. PREA Data Collection Efforts Underway, by Michael Rigby
22. Another CCA Prison in Oklahoma, Another Riot
23. Army Prison Ban On PLN Containing Postage-Stamp-Exchange Ad Is Enjoined, But Ban On Internet Mail Up
24. California Prison Employee Paid $500,000 To Settle Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
25. Federal Immigration Detainee Taken Off Life Support Without Family's Consent
26. Supreme Court Finds Ohio Supermax Placement Policy Constitutional, by Bob Williams
27. Brain Dead California Prisoner Guarded Around The Clock
28. California Prison Guard Gets Time For Setting Up Prisoner Beating
29. Report: Federal Prison Guards Sexually Abuse Prisoners With Near Impunity, by Michael Rigby
30. Washington DOC Settles Contempt Action For $500,000; Money To Fund Patient Advocate, by Michael Rigby
31. Los Angeles County Settles Parolee's Overdetention Suit For $80,000
32. Alabama Workers' Comp Act No Bar to Psychological Torts
33. Wackenhut Settles Suit Over Premature Birth for $98,000
34. $15,000 Settlement In Hawaii Voting Rights Suit
35. U.S. Supreme Court: State Prisoners May Challenge Unconstitutional Parole Procedures Under § 1983 If Earlier Release Doesn't Necessarily Follow
36. 42 Alabama AIDS Prison Deaths In Five Years Spurs Major Medical Suit Settlement, by John Dannenberg
37. Prisoners of Love: Good Advice for Those Separated By Walls But United by Love
38. Maricopa County, Arizona, Settles Wrongful Imprisonment Suit For $1.4 Million
39. RLUIPA Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
40. Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years, by Michael Rigby
41. Jury Trial in Prison Violates Oregon Constitution
42. Suit Over Rape of Prisoner By TDCJ Employee Settled for $118,318.56 and Beach Property
43. Supreme Court Decision Orders Release of 920 Mariel Cubans; ICE: Dumps them In the Streets Without Aid, by Mark Wilson
44. Massachusetts Law, Not PLRA, Applies to Attorneys Fee Award in State Court § 1983 Action for Native
45. California Guard Wins $10 Million Default Judgment Against Assaultive Prisoners
46. $1 Million L.A. County Jail Rape Award Overturned
47. Colorado Teenagers Raped By Guards Settle For $165,000 Each, by Michael Rigby
48. Former Wackenhut Guard Awarded $600,000 For Wrongful Termination
49. Arizona Boot Camp Director Convicted In Teen’s Death
50. Tennessee Public Records Act Requires Delivery Of Records To Prisoners
51. Court Holds Temperatures on Florida's Death Row Constitutional; Class Action Exhaustion Explained, by David Reutter
52. Staph Infections Kill Women Prisoners In Pennsylvania; Coroner’s Office Raided, by Michael Rigby
53. Kentucky State Auditor Blasts Prison Industries After $377K in Undeposited Payments Found in Manager’s Desk
54. Mere Pendency of Proceedings Deprives Court of Jurisdiction in Jail Collect Call Case; Attorney Fee
55. California’s Sex-Offender Internet Site Gets 14 Million Hits In First Four Days
56. Florida's Law Libraries Provide Adequate Access to Courts Under State's Constitution, by David Reutter
57. Besmirched California Prison Doctors Sue To Block Higher Qualification Standards
58. News in Brief:
59. News in Brief
60. Ninth Circuit: Kicking Shackled Prisoner In Genitals Is Cruel And Unusual Punishment

More from these topics:

• California Prisoner Wins Challenge to Overbroad CDCR Records Request Made Prior to Resentencing, Sept. 15, 2024. Disclosure of Records, Resentencing.
• Washington Prisoner’s Sentence Vacated After Attorney Calls and Visits Were Recorded, Aug. 15, 2024. Attorney Client, Prisoner Privileges, Disclosure of Records, Recordings, Sentences - Corrections or Modifications of.
• New York Governor Signs Law Sealing Millions of Criminal Records From Public View, April 15, 2024. Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Public Records Act, Criminal History.
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare, Jan. 1, 2024. MHM Inc., Corizon, Centurion, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Private Contractors, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records, Declaratory Judgment, Public Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, PLN Litigation, Censorship, Articles About PLN, Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation.
• $7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk, Jan. 1, 2024. Guard Misconduct, Medication, Seizures, Failure to Treat, Bedding, Jail Specific, Disclosure of Records, Public Records.
• Ohio Supreme Court Grants Prisoner’s Mother Names of Fellow Prisoners Who Attacked Him, Dec. 1, 2023. Disclosure of Records, Unpublished/Withdrawn/Redacted Decisions.
• Utah Prisoner Blows Whistle on Abuse of Federal Grants, Leading to $1.55 Million Settlement – And New Law Restricting Prisoner Records Requests, Oct. 15, 2023. Whistleblowing, Settlements, Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Federal Funds.
• ‘Silos’ Can Keep Police Departments From Knowledge of Extent of Police Abuse and Consequences of That Abuse, Sept. 1, 2023. Assault by Police, Disclosure of Records, Excessive Force (Police), Class Actions.
• Variability in Records Requests Obscures Police Use of Surveillance, Dec. 15, 2022. Disclosure of Records, Police State-Surveillance.
• Idaho Supreme Court Announces Prospectively Testimony by Drug Recognition Expert Requires State to Comply With Expert Witness Disclosure Requirements of Rule 16(b)(7), May 15, 2022. War on Drugs, Disclosure of Records, Eyewitness Testimony.