More from this issue:

1. Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians, by Roger Smith
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. When Courts Get it Wrong: Clark v. Beard, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
4. NY Court Dismisses Prisoner’s Assault Claim, Voids $500,000 Jury Award
5. Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails, by Silja JA Talvi
6. $100,000 Damage Award Vacated for Seven-Year Service Delay
7. Summer of Discontent, by John Dannenberg
8. Prison Doctors, Tainted by Regulatory Board Discipline, Administer Wisconsin Prisoner Care, by David Reutter
9. My Space Becomes “No Space” for Online Sex Offenders, by David Reutter
10. $2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s 2004 Beating Death Revealed, by Alex Friedmann
11. Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records, by Michael Rigby
12. Habeas Hints: Amending Petitions, by Kent A. Russell
13. Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, by Mary Beth Pfieffer (Carroll & Graf, 2007, 280 pp. $15.95), by David Preston
14. Texas Prison Health Care: On the Brink of Unconstitutionality, Again, by Matthew Clarke
15. Georgia Prisoner Assaulted By Jailer Awarded $5,300
16. Texas Youth Commission Wants Increased Pepper Spray Use Despite Settlement, by Michael Rigby
17. Wrongful Termination of Georgia Jail Guards by New Sheriff Settles for $7 Million
18. $3,175,000 Judgment against Private Health Contractor for Illinois Prisoner’s Stroke
19. North Carolina Execution Laws Trump Medical Board’s Ethics Declaration, by John Dannenberg
20. Alabama DOC Charges Prisoners Unlawful Fees to Cover Budget Shortfalls, by Matthew Clarke
21. Alabama Parole Board Employee Pleads Guilty to Misuse of Computer Information
22. Michigan Prisoner Beaten By Guards Awarded $6,004
23. Innocent California Prisoner Paid $3,171,000 For 12 Years Wrongful incarceration
24. South Florida Federal Court Censors Online Plea Agreements
25. News in Brief:
26. $56,274 Verdict in Negligent Rhode Island Maintenance Claim

More from Kent A. Russell:

• Habeas Hints: Understanding and Satisfying the Strickland Test for IAC, May 15, 2018
• Rundown on California Propositions 57 and 64, Jan. 10, 2017
• Habeas Hints: Staring Down the Two-Headed Monster: Richter-Pinholster, Dec. 15, 2013
• Habeas Hints: Staring Down the Two-Headed Monster: Richter-Pinholster, Nov. 15, 2013
• Habeas Hints: Actual Innocence, Sept. 15, 2013
• Habeas Hints: 2012 Supreme Court Habeas Highlights: Plea Bargaining Cases, Sept. 15, 2012
• Habeas Hints: Expert Testimony in Habeas Cases, Aug. 15, 2011
• Habeas Hints: The Year in Review, Feb. 15, 2011
• Habeas Hints: Certificate of Appealability, June 15, 2010
• HABEAS HINTS – CALIFORNIA COMMENT Pace and Bonner: Avoiding and Fighting “Untimeliness” Rulings Under California Law, Dec. 15, 2009

More from these topics:

• Ninth Circuit Grants Stay and Abeyance of Federal Habeas Petition to Allow Petitioner to Exhaust State Remedies, April 15, 2025. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Habeas Corpus, AEDPA, Amendments to Petition.
• Third Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to Prisoner on Confrontation Clause and Ineffective Assistance Claims Based on Trial Court Reading Entire Criminal Information Into the Record of Co-Conspirator Who Pleaded Guilty, Feb. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Exculpatory No Doctrine, Confrontation Clause/Rights, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Habeas Relief in ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case, Feb. 1, 2025. junk science, Habeas Corpus, Forensic Sciences, Child Abuse/Abusers, Evidence - Admissibility.
• California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss, Jan. 15, 2025. Settlements, Habeas Corpus, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Relief Where Both Trial and Appellate Counsel Provided Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Challenge Indictment for Residential Burglary That Failed to Allege Defendant Illegally Entered a ‘Dwelling’, Jan. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Constitutional Challenges/Law.
• Ninth Circuit Holds District Courts Have No Authority Under Rule 4 of Rules Governing § 2254 Cases to Dismiss Habeas Petition on the Merits, Dec. 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Dismissal, Authority and Jurisdiction.
• Ninth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to California Prisoner on Napue Claim Because Prosecution Failed to Correct Informant’s False Testimony That He Did Not Receive Any Benefit In Exchange for His Testimony, Dec. 1, 2024. Informants, Habeas Corpus, Informants and Paid Witnesses, False Testimony.
• Public Defender Files Habeas Petitions for Detainees at “Horrific” Baltimore Lockup, Nov. 15, 2024. Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement, Hygiene Supplies, Disclosure of Records, Habeas Corpus.
• Ninth Circuit Denies Habeas Relief to Prisoner Who Invoked Fifth Amendment Right to Counsel During Custodial Interrogation but Made Incriminating Statements to Undercover Informant Posing as Fellow Prisoner Because Right to Counsel Not Violated, Nov. 1, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Custodial Interrogations/Statements, Counsel - Right to.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Where Defense Counsel Failed to Understand State Self-Defense Statute Provides Complete Defense to Felony Murder Based on Felon-in-Possession Charge, Oct. 1, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Felon in Possession Statute, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Murder/Felony Murder.