More from this issue:

1. Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails
2. Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts, by David Reutter
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. 8th Circuit Invalidates BOP Halfway House Policy; 7th Circuit Says Challenge Not Cognizable on Habeas
5. Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC
6. Florida Prisoner's Disciplinary Challenges Reversed for Further Proceedings
7. BOP's Failure to Provide Adequate Medical Treatment Nets Downward Departure Sentence
8. Seventh Circuit Reverses Judgment on Denial of Methadone
9. Second Circuit Upholds Guard's Rape Sentence Under Federal Guidelines
10. Washington DOC Must Ship Prisoners' Property For Free
11. Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented
12. 2005 Audit of California Parole Board Reveals Ongoing Deficiencies
13. Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing, by Kent Russell
14. Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda, Pace University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2
15. Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident
16. Florida's Privatization of Prisoner Canteen Services Under Scrutiny
17. Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments
18. If the Shoe Fits: Did Colorado Prison Officials Look the Other Way While a Guard's Fetish Turned Vio, by Alan Pendergast
19. New York Prisoner Attacked On Bus Awarded $600,000
20. Whistleblowers Nail Cheating California Corrections Employees
21. Florida DOC's No Bid Pharmaceutical Contract Scrutinized and Criticized
22. Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement
23. Chicago Settles Another Jail Brutality Suit for $362,500
24. Federal District Court Awards Missouri Prisoner $2,500 For Excessive Force
25. Nebraska Native American Prisoners' Religious Program Reinstated, by John Dannenberg
26. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
27. California and Connecticut Reinstate Jobs of Fired Guards
28. Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine
29. Kentucky Prisoner Injured In Transport Vehicle Awarded $9,000
30. Florida Jury Awards $225,000 in False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution Claim
31. American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access
32. U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access
33. Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $250,000 for Assault During Strip Search
34. Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California
35. Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment, by Michael Rigby
36. Prisoners Labor at Wisconsin Wal-Mart Site
37. Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000
38. Georgia DOC Settles Failure-To-Protect Suit for $15,000, by Michael Rigby
39. Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract
40. NY State Prisoner Receives $400,000 Liver Transplant
41. Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington
42. New York Prisoner Awarded $2,500 for Delayed Eyeglasses
43. News in Brief
44. Low Pay Drives Tennessee Guards to Smuggle Drugs, Contraband into Prisons

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.
• New York Prisoner, Paroled After 25 Years, Exonerated of Crime, June 1, 2026. Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Evidence - Failure to Disclose, Prosecutorial Threats, Brady/Giglio/Jencks Act Issues.
• Exonerated Texas Prisoner Entitled to $1.68 Million After 22 Years of Wrongful Incarceration, May 1, 2026. Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence, Failure to Consult/Investigate/Raise, Expert and Opinion Testimony.
• Seventh Circuit Upholds Liability but Reverses Damages in Lawsuit Over Illinois Warden and Investigator Using Prisoner as Bait to Catch Staff Member Raping Her, May 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Damages, Evidentiary Ruling, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
• Ohio Supreme Court Awards Prisoner $1,000 for Denied Records Request, April 1, 2026. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Damages, Public Records, Public Records Act.
• 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.
• Michigan Claws Back $1.2 Million Paid to Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner, Feb. 1, 2026. Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Qualified Immunity, Forensic Sciences, Fabrication of Evidence.
• Exonerated Former Prisoner Wins Election for Chief Record Keeper in New Orleans, Jan. 1, 2026. Prisoner Legal Assistance, Juries, Public Records, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment.
• $6.49 Million Settlement for 600,000 Prisoners in Massive CorrectCare Data Breach Class Action, Dec. 1, 2025. Private Contractors, Medical Records, Damages, Settlements, Privacy Act/Rights.
• SCOTUS Overturns Oklahoma Prisoner’s Death Sentence After More than 25 Years on Death Row, Nov. 1, 2025. Ex Post Facto, Good Time, Wrongful Conviction, Habeas Corpus, Wrongful Imprisonment, Pardons/Clemency, First Step Act, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (CAFRA), Specific Offenses, Controlled Substances, Weapons, Accuracy of Information, Depraved Indifference Murder, Evidence - Circumstantial, Theft, Failure to Disclose, Perjury/Perjured Testimony, Evidence - Failure to Disclose, New Trial - Motions for, Pleas Linked to Cooperation, Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of, Selective Prosecution/Enforcement, Improper Comments, Official Report, Withholding of Exculpatory Evidence, Exculpatory Evidence - Disclosure Obligations.