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. $170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC, by Jayson Hawkins
30. Texas County Jail Cited for Neglecting the Needs of a Pregnant Prisoner, by Keith Sanders
31. Salvation Army Sued for a Failing to Pay Wages to Drug Program Participants
32. New Jersey Women’s Prison to Close After Latest Abuse Debacle, by Jayson Hawkins
33. Sherburne County, MN, Settles with HRDC for $98,000 Plus New Jail Publications Policy, by Chuck Sharman
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 these topics:

• Jail Oversight Body Stalled by New York Governor, Aug. 1, 2026. Government Misconduct, Corrections Audits, Prison Reform, Public Records, State Legislation.
• New Mexico Supreme Court Holds Corrections Department Regulations Do Not Exempt Use-Of-Force Documents from Public Records Disclosure, Aug. 1, 2026. Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Public Records Act, Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Authority and Jurisdiction.
• Detainee Deaths Went Unreported at Dallas County Jail, July 1, 2026. Jail Misconduct, Statistics/Trends, Databases, Public Records.
• Florida Supreme Court Announces “Results” of Postconviction DNA Testing Under § 925.11 Include Underlying Testing Data Necessary for Expert Analysis, Holding That No Additional Burden Applies Once a Motion for Testing Has Been Granted, June 1, 2026. DNA Testing/Samples, Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Forensic Sciences, Scientific Testimony or Evidence.
• Ohio Supreme Court Rules that Sheriff Did Not Violate Open Records Act and Declines to Award Damages to Prisoner, June 1, 2026. GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Public Records Act.
• They Thought They Were Leaving Prison Early. Then They Weren’t., June 1, 2026. Public Records, Overdetention, Sentences - Corrections or Modifications of, Credits, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences.
• Oklahoma Supreme Court: Jail Trust Cannot Withhold Requested Records under Law Enforcement Exemption of ORA, May 1, 2026. Summary Judgment, Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Public Records Act, Statutory Construction/Interpretation.
• Ohio Supreme Court Awards Prisoner $1,000 for Denied Records Request, April 1, 2026. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Damages, Public Records, Public Records Act.
• Exonerated Former Prisoner Wins Election for Chief Record Keeper in New Orleans, Jan. 1, 2026. Prisoner Legal Assistance, Juries, Public Records, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment.
• Over $222,000 in Legal Costs and Fees Awarded to HRDC in Florida Records Suit Against Centurion, Dec. 1, 2025. Attorney Fee Awards, Costs, Disclosure of Records, Public Records, Public Records Act.