More from this issue:

1. Reflections on Katrina’s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America’s Worst Justice Systems, by Bob Williams
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Mentally Ill Connecticut Prisoner Assaulted by Guard Awarded $250,000, Plus $121,384.80 in Fees
4. California DOC Stipulates to Providing Comprehensive Dental Care Program, by John Dannenberg
5. PLN Sues Dallas County Jail for Censorship
6. Two Registered Sex Offenders Murdered in Maine, by Matthew Clarke
7. Does Parole Work? Apparently Not.
8. Two Victories in New York’s Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract, by Rachel Meeropol
9. Early Release Debacle Prompts Nevada Prison Director’s Resignation, by Matthew Clarke
10. California DOC Substance-Abuse Contractor Audits Reveal $5 Million in Overcharges, by John Dannenberg
11. Alabama Transfers Prisoners to Louisiana Rather Than Use In-State Prison, by Gary Hunter
12. Pennsylvania County Pays U.S. INS $16 Million for Detainee Housing Overcharges, by John Dannenberg
13. Prisoners In 13 States Allowed Work-Access To Social Security Numbers, by John Dannenberg
14. Deaths In Alabama Jail Prompt Changes, by Gary Hunter
15. Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners’ Beatings, Death, by Gary Hunter
16. Washington State Supreme Court Justice Reprimanded For Visiting Prisoners
17. Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed, by John Dannenberg
18. Yale University Divests CCA Stock Following Student and PLN Protests
19. Tennessee Prison Contracting Official Engaged to Contractor
20. California Corrections Standards Authority Chided by Inspector General for Failure to Develop Prison Guard Selection and Training Standards, by Marvin Mentor
21. Illinois DOC Capitulates On Prison Newspaper Ban, by John Dannenberg
22. Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Prisons, by Gary Hunter
23. Chicago Juvenile Detention Center Workers Resist Court-Ordered Reforms, by John Dannenberg
24. Maryland’s Public Information Act Exempt from Administrative Exhaustion Requirements
25. California Sexual Predators’ Suit Alleging Unconstitutional Civil Confinement Conditions Survives Dismissal, by John Dannenberg
26. California Prisoner Fed Finger Settles with Florida Food Manufacturer
27. Ninth Circuit: Before Conducting Warrantless Parole Search, Police Need Probable Cause to Believe Parolee Lives There, by John Dannenberg
28. BOP Mail Rule Banning Internet Downloads and Soft Cover Publications Not Sent by Publisher Held Unconstitutional, by John Dannenberg
29. Oklahoma Orthodox Jewish Prisoners Win Kosher Diet, by John Dannenberg
30. Marin County, California Settles Wrongful Jail Death For $1 Million, by John Dannenberg
31. California-Based Mental Health Systems, Inc.Fails 23 Audits, by John Dannenberg
32. Ninth Circuit: Failure to Timely Set Fractured Thumb is Actionable, by John Dannenberg
33. California State Prisoner Wins $21,800 for 250 Days Excess Incarceration
34. California Prisoner IFP State Civil Filing Fee Statutes Interpreted, by John Dannenberg
35. Sensitive Illinois DOC Personnel Records Compromised
36. News in Brief:
37. Expungement, Not Rehearing, Mandated in Colorado Disciplinary Reversals, by Bob Williams
38. Los Angeles County Sheriff Immune from Suit on Jail Housing Policies, by John Dannenberg

More from John Dannenberg:

• Disciplinary Self-Help Litigation Manual, 2d Ed., by Dan Manville, March 5, 2015
• Systemic Changes Follow Murder of Colorado Prison Director, July 10, 2014
• The Redbook – A Manual on Legal Style, April 15, 2014
• Arrest-Proof Yourself, by Dale Carson and Wes Denham, March 15, 2014
• Arrested: What to do When Your Loved One’s in Jail, by Wes Denham, Feb. 15, 2014
• California Parole Board Agrees to Implement Policy to Fix Terms at Lifers’ Initial Hearings, Jan. 15, 2014
• FCC Order Heralds Hope for Reform of Prison Phone Industry, Dec. 15, 2013
• Federal Court Orders California to Release 9,600 More Prisoners, Aug. 15, 2013
• Valley Fever Declared a Public Health Emergency at Two California Prisons; Court Orders Prisoner Transfers, July 15, 2013
• Plata and Coleman Showdown in California, June 15, 2013

More from these topics:

• $3.76 Million Awarded to Denver Grandmother for SWAT Raid of Home Based on Inaccurate iPhone Ping, July 15, 2024. State Law Claims, SWAT Teams, State Constitutional Claims, False Statements, Testimony or Documents.
• Tennessee Supreme Court Announces Prospective Abrogation of Common Law Accomplice-Corroboration Rule, July 15, 2024. State Law Claims, Co-onspirator and Accomplice Statements/Testimony, Accessories and Accomplices.
• Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation, July 1, 2024. State Law Claims, Wrongful Conviction.
• CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail, July 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), State Law Claims.
• Landmark Drug Possession Reform Based on Unproven Allegations Reversed in Oregon, June 15, 2024. Criminal justice system reform, War on Drugs, State Law Claims.
• West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy, May 1, 2024. Prison Labor, State Law Claims, Good Time.
• Florida Supreme Court Bans ‘Vexatious’ Prisoner From Filing Further Pro Se Petitions, April 26, 2024. State Law Claims, Frivolous Litigation.
• Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery, April 1, 2024. Jail Misconduct, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, State Law Claims, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified.
• Commissary and Food Service Privatization Strands Florida Prisoners in ‘Food Desert’, Feb. 1, 2024. Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), PRIDE, Aramark, Food, State Law Claims, Trust Accounts, Commissary.
• First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences, Feb. 1, 2024. State Law Claims, Resentencing.