More from this issue:

1. Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Miami Florida: The Julia Tuttle Causeway Becomes a Colony. Politicians Pass the Buck., by Isaiah Thompson
2. California Parole Board Executive Officer Resigns After Caught Drinking on Duty
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. CCA Attempts Cover-Up of Assault by Warden at Tennessee Prison, by Alex Friedmann
5. Record Number of Disciplinary Actions Against Texas Prison Guards, by Matthew Clarke
6. $154,000 Awarded to Hawaii Prisoner Injured by Jumping from Bunk Bed Without Ladder And Exposed to ETS
7. Think Outside The Cell: An Entrepreneur’s Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated, by Joseph Robinson, Resilience Multimedia, 270 pages, by Gary Hunter
8. California Homosexual Prisoner Family Visits Policy Draws Fire
9. $900,000 Settlement in Illinois Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault of Juvenile
10. New Jersey Abolishes the Death Penalty, by Matthew Clarke
11. Nevada Prisoner Health Care So Atrocious, Prisoners Volunteer for Execution to Avoid Suffering, by David Reutter
12. Eight Guards, Nurse Acquitted in Florida Child’s Beating Death, by David Reutter
13. Flesh-Eating Bacteria Grossly Disfigures Misdiagnosed Washington State Prisoner, by John Dannenberg
14. California Prison Beset by Deadly Valley Fever Epidemic, by John Dannenberg
15. New York Prisoner Awarded $112,000 For Leg Burns
16. Vermont Prisons Subject to Human Rights Commission Jurisdiction
17. Florida Prison Still Beset by Contaminated Water, by David Reutter
18. $25.5 Million Awarded in California County Jail Strip Search Suit, by John Dannenberg
19. Washington Study Finds Higher Recidivist Rate Amongst Sex Offenders Recommended, But Not Committed, For Civil Commitment, by David Reutter
20. Defunct Louisiana Juvenile Private Prison Reactivated by GEO for Immigrants
21. Son of Illinois Congressman Fired, Charged With Raping Prisoners
22. California DOC Federal Master: Continued Court Oversight Needed on “Code of Silence”, by Marvin Mentor
23. Pierce County, WA Jail Settles Jail Strip-Search Suit For $667,000
24. New York Prisoner Awarded $322,000 For Hand Laceration
25. Dallas County, Texas, Criticized for Offering Probation to Murder Defendants, by Michael Rigby
26. Iowa Faith-Based Program Finally Closed
27. $80,000 Settlement For Injury Caused By Defective Federal Prison Sidewalk
28. Junk Bonds to Junk Science? Drug Treatment Program Questioned, by Greg Dober
29. The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, By Marie Gottschalk, Cambridge University Press, 451 pp., by Silja JA Talvi
30. 33,000 California Prisoners May Need Credits Recalculated Due To Retroactive State Court Decisions, by John Dannenberg
31. U.S. Releases Highest Ranking Soldier Convicted For Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse
32. California State Prisoner Wins $39,011 for Deprivation of Outdoor Exercise During Extended Lockdowns, by Marvin Mentor
33. PLN Sues Massachusetts DOC Over Book Ban, Added to Approved List One Week Later
34. Texas Prisoner’s Hepatitis C Claim Not Frivolous, Fifth Circuit Holds
35. Ohio Jail Prisoner’s Excessive Force Lawsuit Settles For $100,000
36. Federal Jury Convicts California DOC Guards on Assault and Conspiracy Charges; Judge Tosses Verdict
37. Innocent California Prisoner Freed After Nine Years; Paid $1 Million
38. North Carolina Agency Liable in Jail Fire That Killed Five Prisoners
39. Georgia’s Sex Offender Residency Restriction Unconstitutional; Work Restriction Approved
40. Nevada Criminalizes Cell Phones in State Prisons
41. CA Uses Jail Inmate Welfare Funds for Reentry; Expands Early Release for Permanently Disabled CDCR Prisoners
42. News in Brief:
43. $700,000 Settlement in Minnesota Teen’s Wrongful Death Caused by Jail’s Indifference to Head Infection

More from David Reutter:

• Sixth Circuit Announces State-Law Exceptions to Appeal Deadlines Preserve “Pending” Status Under AEDPA, Holding Belated-Appeal Procedures Toll Federal Habeas Limitations Period, April 1, 2026
• Florida Supreme Court Announces Rule 3.170(f)’s Good-Cause Plea-Withdrawal Standard Does Not Apply at Post-Appeal Resentencing, April 1, 2026
• Colorado Supreme Court Announces Defendant Must Be Competent Before Undergoing Mental-Condition Examination Under § 16-8-107(3)(b), April 1, 2026
• California Court of Appeal Announces Plea Agreements Cannot Bar § 1172.1 Resentencing, Holds Merit-Based Denial of Petition Is Appealable, April 1, 2026
• Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies That Failure to Object to Ineligible Juror Does Not Constitute Waiver Unless Party Knew or Could Have Discovered Ineligibility Through Ordinary Diligence, April 1, 2026
• Washington State Guard’s Conviction Affirmed in Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound Scheme, March 1, 2026
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Motion Judge Abused Discretion by Denying Evidentiary Hearing on IAC Claim Where Plea Counsel’s Affidavit Was Not Inherently Inconsistent With Colloquy Statements Regarding Immigration Advice, March 1, 2026
• Washington Supreme Court Clarifies Double Jeopardy Analysis for Multiple Assault Convictions, Holding That Assaultive Acts Occurring Over Short Time Period in Same Location Without Intervening Events Constitute Single Course of Conduct, March 1, 2026
• New Jersey Supreme Court Reverses Drug Convictions Under Cumulative Error Doctrine, Holding Combined Effect of Improper References to Television Series, Gun Violence, and Search Warrants Deprived Defendant of Fair Trial, March 1, 2026
• New York Court of Appeals Announces Coercive Police Tactics Compelling Suspect to Exit Home Constitute “Constructive Entry” Violating Payton, Holds Attenuation Analysis Applies to Third-Party Consent, March 1, 2026

More from these topics:

• Free Phone Calls Saved Prisoners and Their Families More than $600 Million, Report Finds, July 1, 2026. Conditions of Confinement, PLRA, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Telephones.
• New York to Become First State to Require Judges to Visit Prisons, July 1, 2026. Classification, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing, Prisoner Privileges.
• California Gave Every Student in Prison a Laptop. How Community Colleges Are Using Them, July 1, 2026. Education, Computers, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry, Access to Computers.
• Detainee Deaths Went Unreported at Dallas County Jail, July 1, 2026. Jail Misconduct, Statistics/Trends, Databases, Public Records.
• Prisoners’ Risk of Death In Custody More than Doubles in Solitary Confinement, July 1, 2026. Statistics/Trends, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Confinement in Segregated Housing, Administrative Detention/Segregation.
• Wisconsin State Prison Population Approaches Record High, July 1, 2026. Statistics/Trends, Overcrowding, Staffing, Pardons/Clemency, Reduction of Prison Population.
• South Carolina Supreme Court Announces Penile Plethysmograph Results Are Inadmissible Until Underlying Science Becomes Standardized, Affirming Reversal of Sexually Violent Predator Commitment, June 1, 2026. Civil Commitment, Sexually Dangerous Persons/Sexual Violent Predators, Evidence - Integrity/Reliability of, Prejudice - Potential for Undue, Scientific Testimony or Evidence.
• Study Shows That Suicide Intervention During and After Incarceration Reduces Suicide Attempts by 55%, June 1, 2026. Statistics/Trends, Suicides, Health care.
• Texas Executes 600th Prisoner Since Reinstating Death Penalty in 1976, June 1, 2026. Racial Discrimination, Statistics/Trends, Death Penalty, Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disability.
• Wisconsin Governor Issues Executive Order to Restore Commutations, June 1, 2026. Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Pardons/Clemency, Reduction of Prison Population.