More from this issue:

1. Environmental Indifference, by Anthony Moffa
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. $15,379,091 Judgment Entered Against Delaware DOC’s Former Health Care Provider for Narcotics and Medicare Fraud, by Chuck Sharman
4. Report Highlights Force Feeding of Hunger Striking Asylum Seekers by ICE and GEO, by Edward Lyon
5. Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA
6. San Luis Obispo County Jail Conditions Violate Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, by Keith Sanders
7. Federal Jury Orders GEO Group to Pay $23 Million for Immigrant Detainee Slave Labor in Washington
8. How Trump Made a Tiny Christian College the Nation’s Biggest Prison Educator, by Eli Hager
9. BOP Trust Fund Accounts Reportedly Shield Prisoners from Payment Obligations, by Dale Chappell
10. $53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved, by David Reutter
11. Disenfranchisement the Old Fashioned Way, by Jayson Hawkins
12. Whistleblower Alleges Hawaii Prison Officials Provided False Audit Data, by Kevin Dayton
13. HRDC Sues Lincoln County Wisconsin Jail over Censorship Practices
14. Ninth Circuit: Pretrial Detainees Have Right to Direct-View Safety Checks, by David Reutter
15. Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare, by Lauren Gill
16. Eleventh Circuit: Preliminary Injunctions Have 90-Day Limit Under PLRA; Permanent Injunction Required to Extend Relief, by David Reutter
17. Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Illegal Juvenile LWOP Sentence Undermined Validity of Later Conviction, by Douglas Ankney
18. Eighth Circuit Rules District Court Must Use Federal Law for Admissibility of Expert Testimony, by Douglas Ankney
19. Too Many In-Custody Deaths of BOP Prisoners are Unnecessary and Preventable, by Casey Bastian
20. California Supreme Court: Prisoners Cannot Legally Possess Cannabis, by Casey Bastian
21. Public Records Suit Filed Against Florida DOC To Obtain Formula Used To Compute Sentences
22. History Professor Fired After Criticizing University’s Racist Past and Pro-Prison Present, by Keith Sanders
23. Prison Visitors Have Fourth Amendment Right to Refuse Strip Search and Option to Leave Prison
24. Unreliable Drug Tests Standard for Law Enforcement and Prisons, by Keith Sanders
25. Massachusetts Prisons Pledge to End Solitary, by Jayson Hawkins
26. Civilly Detained Sex Offender Plaintiff Proceeding In Forma Pauperis Not a Prisoner Under PLRA
27. $405,794 Paid by California Prison System for Prisoner Killed by Aryan Brotherhood Cellmate
28. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Sanctions and Award of $118,458 in Attorney Fees Against DOC for Withholding Documents Requested Under Right-to-Know Law
29. Texas County Jail Cited for Neglecting the Needs of a Pregnant Prisoner, by Keith Sanders
30. $170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC, by Jayson Hawkins
31. Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants
32. Sherburne County, MN, Settles with HRDC for $98,000 Plus New Jail Publications Policy, by Chuck Sharman
33. New Jersey Women’s Prison to Close After Latest Abuse Debacle, by Jayson Hawkins
34. Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Black Mold in Showers, Lack of Cleaning Supplies, by Matthew Clarke
35. ABA’s Private Prisons Prophecy Comes to Pass, by Edward Lyon
36. Michigan Prisoner’s Corizon Suit Dismissed Due to “Morass of Irrelevancies”, by David Reutter
37. Seven Ohio Guards Fired After Killing Prisoner, No Criminal Charges
38. Third Circuit: Gratuitous Use of Force on Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense, by David Reutter
39. Delaware Mother Jailed for Not Paying $177 in Fines, Dies in Custody, Nurse Convicted, by Jayson Hawkins
40. Forty-One Oregon Prisoner Firefighters have Sentences Commuted
41. News in Brief

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? Fingerprint Evidence’s Troubling Flaws, April 15, 2025
• Tenth Circuit Stretches PLRA to Deny Claim of Colorado Prisoner Shot by Guard While Shackled, April 1, 2025
• Fourth Circuit Excuses Maryland Prisoner From Exhaustion Requirement in PREA Claim, April 1, 2025
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces State Wiretap Statute Requires Suppression of Both Audio and Video Components of Audiovisual Footage of Unlawfully Intercepted Oral Communication Showing Defendant as Party to Communication, March 15, 2025
• California Court of Appeal Vacates Sentence Where Trial Court Imposed Sentence Under ‘One Strike’ Enhancement Statute Enacted After Crimes Were Committed, March 15, 2025
• Nevada Supreme Court: Theft Offenses and Possessing or Receiving Stolen Property Offenses Are Mutually Exclusive and Double Jeopardy Protections Bar Conviction for Both Offenses When Based on Same Conduct, March 15, 2025
• Maryland Supreme Court: Trial Court Abused Its Discretion by Failing to Exercise That Discretion Where It Summarily Refused Requested Jury Instruction Because It Was a Non-Pattern Instruction and ‘Some Evidence’ Supported the Instruction, March 15, 2025
• $100,000 Settlement Reached in New York Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Suit, After Jury for First Time Finds Practice Violates Eighth Amendment, March 1, 2025
• Community Supervision: America’s Hidden Wellspring to Mass Incarceration, Feb. 15, 2025
• Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults, Feb. 15, 2025

More from these topics:

• Virginia Parole Board Skirts New Transparency Rules, Governor Walks Back Expanded Sentence Credits—Again, March 1, 2025. Local Rules, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, Credits.
• Medicare Now Available to Those on Probation and Parole, Feb. 15, 2025. Health care, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
• Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff, Feb. 15, 2025. Guard Brutality/Beatings, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Sentences - Adjustments and Departures, Offense of Conviction.
• California Court of Appeal Announces Equal Protection Entitles Youth Offenders Convicted of Special Circumstances Murder Predicated on Robbery or Burglary to Franklin and Parole Hearings Under Cal. Penal Code § 3051, Feb. 15, 2025. Equal Protection Clause/Claims, Murder/Felony Murder, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
• California Court of Appeal Announces Youthful Defendants Sentenced to Terms ‘Functionally Equivalent’ to LWOP Entitled to Resentencing Under § 1170(d), Feb. 1, 2025. Life without Parole (LWOP), Resentencing, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.
• The Murky Waters of Parole, Feb. 1, 2025. Parole/Probation Searches, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Parole Liability, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
• 150 People Sue Over Past Abuse at New York City Juvenile Facilities, Jan. 15, 2025. Staff-Prisoner Assault, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders, Statutes of Limitation and Laches.
• Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide, Jan. 15, 2025. Disabled Prisoners, Videotaping, Restraints, Wrongful Death, Suicides, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.
• Michigan Supreme Court Greenlights Adding Restitution At Resentencing of Former Juveniles Sentenced to LWOP, Jan. 15, 2025. Life without Parole (LWOP), Restitution, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders.
• Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires, Jan. 15, 2025. Parole/Probation Searches, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Resentencing, Revocation Proceedings, Overreaching.