More from this issue:

1. Remembering Attica Forty Years Later, by Dennis Cunningham
2. Extra Earned Time Sentence Reductions Save Oregon $25 Million
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. 800,000 Ex-Offenders Regain Voting Rights – 5.3 Million More to Go
5. Female Prisoners Removed from CCA Facility in Kentucky
6. PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Michigan Jail over “Postcard Only” Policy
7. Reform Comes to Maine Supermax: New commissioner cuts population by more than half; prisoner rights advocates help in the reform, by Lance Tapley
8. $73,700 Jury Award for Guard’s Sexual Encounters with Massachusetts Prisoner, by David Reutter
9. New Mexico Spends $20 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Fund Prison Jobs
10. Sixth Circuit Upholds Tennessee’s Financial Obligation Re-Enfranchisement Law, by Mark Wilson
11. Ninth Circuit Finds Maricopa County Jail’s Cross-Gender Strip Searches Unreasonable
12. $60 Million in Strip Search Settlements for Cook County Jail Prisoners, by Derek Gilna
13. California: OAL Disapproves Proposed Parole Board Regulation Formalizing Lifer Risk Assessments, by Michael Brodheim
14. Feds Pay Wrongfully Convicted D.C. Men $1.9 Million
15. Florida Reenacts Reconstruction-Era Felon Disenfranchisement Rule, by David Reutter
16. EEOC Files Suit Against GEO Group for Sexual Harassment at Arizona Prisons
17. Georgia Deputy Fired for Refusing Threesome with Sheriff
18. Feds Intervene in Suit, Allege “Sadistic” Stun Gun Use at Ohio Jail; Jail Settles, by Brandon Sample
19. Federal Court Dismisses Virginia Lifers’ Parole Suit
20. New Laws Improve Job Prospects for Former Prisoners
21. Florida Prisoner’s Suicide Suit Settles for $500,000
22. $85,000 Settlement in Philadelphia Wrongful Imprisonment Suit
23. Former Federal Prisoner Seeks Almost $280,000 in Attorney Fees from BOP
24. Prisoners Used to Clean Foreclosed Houses in Georgia
25. Third Circuit Upholds Unanimity Requirement for Pennsylvania Pardon Recommendations
26. Texas Chaplain Who Complained of Jail Conditions Reinstated, Suit Settled
27. Protective Order Denied in Privately Run Florida Juvenile Facility Class-Action Suit, by David Reutter
28. $4.5 Million Settlement in Texas County Jail Strip Search Suit
29. Florida’s House Speaker Wants to Quicken Executions, by David Reutter
30. Third Circuit Upholds Pennsylvania Sex Offender Treatment Parole Requirement, by Mark Wilson
31. Michigan Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Case Settles for $100,000
32. Florida Courts Criticize Indefinite Detention While Awaiting Civil Commitment Trials
33. North Carolina Prisoner’s First-Degree Murder Conviction is Valid Basis to Deny Awarding Good Time Credits, by David Reutter
34. Parole Violator Leaps to Death at Alaskan Jail
35. North Carolina Jail Prisoner Housed with TB Infected Cellmate Receives $2,250 Settlement
36. New Mexico State Auditor Investigates Prison Contracts
37. Washington State Closes McNeil Island Prison, by David Reutter
38. Canadian Prison Guards Hold Prisoners at Gunpoint for 10 Days
39. Smoke ’Em if You Got ’Em, Says Oklahoma DOC
40. California: Orange County Jail System Ordered to Remedy ADA Violations, by Michael Brodheim
41. Oregon Settles Prisoner’s Heart Failure Medical Mistreatment Case for $390,000, by Mark Wilson
42. Arizona County to Pay Ex-Prisoner $325,000 in Jail Guard Beating
43. An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, by Susan Rosenberg (Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011), 400 pages, $14.95 paperback
44. UNICOR Wins $20 Million No-Bid Body Armor Contract
45. Federal Stimulus Money Not Spent as Intended by San Diego County Probation Department
46. Paperwork SNAFU Leaves Mentally Ill Woman Jailed in Louisiana for Eight Months
47. California State Auditor Reports on CDCR Malfeasance
48. Official Capacity Not the Same as Governmental Agency in Texas Civil Suit, by Matthew Clarke
49. News In Brief

More from these topics:

• Prison Policy Initiative Report Finds Prison Policies Ignore Menopause Behind Bars, Oct. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN.
• Last of Three Oklahoma Jail Death Settlements Totaling $66.5 Million Paid for Fatal Dehydration of “Cookie Queen”, Oct. 1, 2026. Diabetes, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Deliberate Indifference.
• Second Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity but Clarifies that 14th Amendment ‘Objective Reasonableness’ Is Standard of Review for Pretrial Detainee’s Claim of Sexual Abuse, Oct. 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Pretrial Detention and Detainees, Wrongful Use of Force.
• CoreCivic’s Non-Binding Promises Leave Minnesota City Exposed, Oct. 1, 2026. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems, Tax Law, Contractor Liability, Immigration Detention.
• Eighth Circuit Grants Summary Judgment to Sheriff and County of Nebraska Jail Where Guard Sexually Assaulted Female Prisoner, Oct. 1, 2026. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Qualified Immunity, Failure to Train/Supervise, Monell Liability.
• $3.75 Million Paid by Wisconsin After Mentally Ill Prisoner Dies of Dehydration, Oct. 1, 2026. Water, Settlements, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Deliberate Indifference.
• $250,000 Paid by Nevada to Former Prisoner Denied Colonoscopy Who Developed Stage IV Cancer, Oct. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Failure to Treat, Settlements, Deliberate Indifference.
• Healthcare Still Lacking at Baltimore Jail Decades After Settlement, Oct. 1, 2026. Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Staffing, Consent Decrees.
• Wyoming Stops Sending Prisoners to Mississippi After Staffing Improves, Oct. 1, 2026. Out of State Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Cost of Prison Systems, Staffing.
• L.A. County Begins Making Nearly $5 Billion in Payouts to Survivors of Sex Abuse in Juvenile Detention, Sept. 1, 2026. Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Settlements, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.