More from this issue:

1. Deconstructing Gus: A Former CCA Prisoner Takes On, and Takes Down, CCA’s Top Lawyer, by Paul Wright
2. Online Postings Lead To Stiffer Sentences, by Brandon Sample
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. GEO Cancels Contract at Pennsylvania Jail, Looks Elsewhere for Business, by David Reutter
5. $295,000 Award to Wisconsin Prisoner in Moldy Mattress Case Reduced by Court
6. Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home, by Jordan Flaherty
7. Widespread Corruption in Private Halfway Houses, by Derick Limberg
8. Dead Bodies at “Bodies” Exhibit May Be Executed Chinese Prisoners, by Gary Hunter
9. Florida’s Juvenile Death Camps: A Painful Past Revisited, by David Reutter
10. Prisoners Can Sue Virginia DOC’s Contract Medical Provider for Breach of Contract
11. District of Columbia Rehabilitation Program Contractor Liable in Juvenile’s Death; $1,000,000 Verdict Upheld, by Bob Williams
12. California Jail Restraint and Tasering Death Settles for $3 Million
13. Oregon Jailer Avoids Prosecution for Online Assault Boast; Jail Employees Lose Internet Access, by Mark Wilson
14. Supreme Court Holds Prosecutors Immune from Using False Snitch Testimony to Gain Wrongful Conviction, by John Dannenberg
15. Hawaii Prisoner Awarded $15,000.50 for Slip and Fall
16. Entire Texas Prison System Locked Down to Search for Phones; Prison Cell Phone Problem is Pandemic, by Matthew Clarke
17. Ohio Court Releases Prisoners from Private Jail to Protect Them
18. CMS Contract Woes Persist in New Jersey, Arizona and Delaware, by David Reutter
19. $2,925,000 in Recent Settlements Involving Maricopa County and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, by Matthew Clarke
20. Audit Faults New York Prison Oversight, by Mark Wilson
21. In the Shadow of San Quentin: An Interview with Prison Law Office Director Donald Specter, by Todd Matthews
22. Prisoners’ Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada, 3rd Edition, by Jon Marc Taylor and Susan Schwartzkopf, by Paul Wright
23. Federal Three-Judge Panel Issues Tentative Ruling To Reduce California’s Prison Population By Up To 57,000 In Three Years, by John Dannenberg
24. $3.6 Million Settlement in Michigan Prisoner’s Segregation Cell Death
25. Selling Segregation, by Josh Rushing
26. California Appellate Court Grants Writ, Reverses Governor, Reinstates PLN Writer’s Grant of Parole, by Marvin Mentor
27. Reverend Sues, Wins Right to Register Alabama Prisoners to Vote, by David Reutter
28. Texas Parole Officials Caught Lying to Federal Court With Impunity
29. Report Finds Increase in Michigan Prison Population Attributable to Political Policy Changes, Not Crime Increase, by David Reutter
30. Georgia Judges, Other Officials Indicted on Corruption and Human Trafficking Charges, by David Reutter
31. Maryland Prison Employees Strip Searched After False Alert by Drug Scanning Machine, by Derick Limberg
32. News in Brief:
33. Former Illinois Prison Director Convicted and Fined
34. Washington Jury Awards $202,500 to Ex-Prisoner for Injuries from Top Bunk Fall

More from David Reutter:

• $2.4 Million Settlement Reached After Elderly Pretrial Detainee Strangled by Cellmate in San Antonio Jail, June 1, 2025
• Almost $4.4 Million for Illinois Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Claim, June 1, 2025
• Washington Appellate Court: 
Personal Restraint Petition Proper Vehicle 
to Challenge Community Supervision, June 1, 2025
• $2.8 Million Settlement in National NUMI 
Debit Release Card Class Action, June 1, 2025
• $6 Million Settlement in Illinois Detainee’s Gruesome 
Untreated Heroin Withdrawal Death, June 1, 2025
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Announces Order of Deferred Disposition Not a ‘Sentence’ Under Article 44.01(b)—Which Authorizes State to Appeal Illegal Sentence—Resolving Split Among State Courts of Appeals, April 15, 2025
• Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premises, April 15, 2025
• Illinois Pretrial Incarceration Becomes Less Random A Year After Elimination of Cash Bail, April 1, 2025
• Philadelphia Agrees to $9.1 Million Settlement for Wrongful Murder Conviction, Feb. 15, 2025
• ‘Fictional Pleas’ and ‘Hidden Departures’: Failure to Collect Data on Binding Federal Plea Bargains Hinders Researchers, Feb. 15, 2025

More from these topics:

• Washington’s Continuing Competency Crisis Strains Jails, June 1, 2025. Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
• Tenth Circuit Upholds Nearly $8.8 Million Judgment 
for Utah Jail Death, June 1, 2025. Injury -- Misc., Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
• Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons 
for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff, June 1, 2025. Suicides, Guards/Staff, Staff Training.
• New Mexico Watchdog Group Sues for Video Allegedly 
Showing Jailers Killing Detainee, June 1, 2025. Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Public Records Act.
• Oklahoma Supreme Court Kills One Jail Death Suit, 
Threatening Settlement of Another, June 1, 2025. Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
• Salvadoran President’s Dark Secret Allegedly Behind Deal 
to Hold Deported Migrants in “Mega” Prison, June 1, 2025. Misconduct/Corruption, Conditions of Confinement, Immigration.
• Over $1.1 Million Recovered for Rikers Island Janitors, June 1, 2025. Contractor Misconduct.
• Italy Begins Conjugal Visits 
in Prison “Sex Rooms”, June 1, 2025. Conditions of Confinement.
• Sixth Circuit Limits Deliberate Indifference Standard 
in Kentucky Jail Medical Care Challenge, June 1, 2025. Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Deliberate Indifference.
• Ninth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks 
Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail, June 1, 2025. Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides.