More from this issue:

1. Federal Court Seizes California Prisons' Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers
2. Ten Deaths At San Quentin from Macabre" Healthcare
3. California Prison Doctor Suspended Following Three Prisoner Deaths
4. From the Editor
5. Los Angeles County Pays $900,000 to Parents of Murdered Informant in Jail
6. NY DOC's 60% Telephone Call Surcharge" Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments
7. Dallas Fake Drug Cases Settle For Millions, Jury Awards Damages
8. Wisconsin Prison Employee Raped By Prisoner Awarded $366,000
9. New York City Pays $75,000 for 28.5 Days False Imprisonment
10. Supreme Court: Prisoners' ADA Right to Sue for Damages Trumps State's Sovereign Immunity
11. Michigan Jail's Disproportionate Treatment of Women Results in $855,000 Settlement Agreement
12. Texas Legislature Requires HIV Testing for Prisoners, by Gary Hunter
13. Texas Prisoners Again Have Limited Right to Appear in Civil Cases
14. New York City Jail Strip Search Suit Settles For $30 Million
15. Florida Awards $2 Million to Wrongfully Convicted Man
16. California Enacts Strong Sexual Abuse in Detention Elimination" Act
17. Police Department Class Action Fraud Suit Filed Against Stun Gun Maker
18. New Mexico Jail Prisoners Raped by Judge and Guards Settle for $890,000
19. PLN Questions John Ashcroft on the Death Penalty
20. Wackenhut Settles Pennsylvania Suicide Suit For $125,000
21. Appointment Of Counsel Ordered To Determine California Prisoner's Request For Post-Appeal DNA Testin
22. Washington Jail Pays Teenager $400,000 for Rape While Imprisoned
23. New York Governor Illegally Halts the Release of 12 Sex Offenders
24. BOP Enjoined from Terminating Boot Camp Program
25. Sixth Circuit Upholds Michigan Ban On Prisoner Appeals of Discretionary Denials of Parole
26. Wrongfully Imprisoned D.C. Disabled Man Settles Suit For $1.74 Million
27. Former Riker's Island Head Goes to Prison
28. $3.6 Million Awarded in Rape and Murder by Erroneously Released NY Prisoner
29. BOP Awards Unisys Corp. Nationwide Prison Phone Contract
30. Federal Government Bans Medicaid Impotence Drugs for Sex Offenders
31. BOP Secret Squirrel Photo File" Suit Remanded
32. New York Jail Prisoner Injured In Assault Awarded $750,000
33. Rebellion at CCA Prison in Texas
34. Arkansas Juvenile Prisons Cornell Kills a Prisoner, Hires Guard DOC Fired
35. Washington State Forensic Scientist Helps Convict the Innocent, FBI Assists
36. Avalon Correctional Services Delisted From NASDAQ
37. Civil Commitment of Massachusetts Sex Offenders Expanding
38. California Lifer's Understanding of Plea Agreement Does Not Create Entitlement to Parole
39. York County, Maine, Settles Class Action Strip-Search Suit for $3,300,000
40. Florida DOC's Copy Cost Assessment Rule Declared Invalid, by David Reutter
41. New Jersey's Legal Mail Policy Enjoined; Qualified Immunity Granted
42. Michigan Jail Settles Suicide Suit for $280,000
43. Pre-Trial Defendant Released on Recognizance Is Not Subject to Warrantless Search Without Probable C
44. Los Angeles County Pays Prisoner $42,500 for Legal Malpractice by Public Defender
45. California Pays Innocent Prisoner $328,000 for Nine Years in Prison, by John Dannenberg
46. California DOC Watched Over by Toothless Bureau of Independent Review
47. New Jersey Settles Prisoners Freedom of Religion Suit
48. COPS Program Fails To Arrest Crime, Funding Improprieties
49. Withholding Legal Mail States Legal Access Claim
50. Florida Closes Scandal Ridden Girls Facility, Takes Over Control of Another Juvenile Facility
51. Theft of Prisoners Book by Guards Valid Legal Basis for Texas Civil Suit
52. Nebraska Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Prisoners Drug Testing § 1983 Claim
53. Fourth Circuit Reverses $35,934.66 Habeas Fee Award; Habeas Corpus Not Civil Action Under EAJA
54. Court Orders Mob Boss Released from SHU
55. New York Jail Detainee Awarded $233,000 in Damages and Fees for Excessive Force Claim, by David Reutter
56. Sixth Circuit PLRA Fee Set at $169.50 Not $135
57. Qualified Immunity on FRCP 12(b)(6) Motion Faces Formidable Hurdle in Hepatitis Case
58. Washington Settles Prisoners Medical Indifference Suit for $370,000
59. News in Brief
60. Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of ADA Suit for Failure to Exhaust

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