More from this issue:

1. Looking Deep Inside America’s Legalized Torture Chambers, by Mark Wilson
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Federal Prisoners Finally Receiving Benefits 42 Months After First Step Act Became Law, by Casey Bastian
4. SCOTUS Sides With Condemned Georgia Prisoner Who Wants To Be Executed by Firing Squad, by David Reutter
5. New York Prisoner’s Suit Over Thirteen-Year Solitary Stint Survives, by David Reutter
6. Alabama Prisoners Continue to Die at Alarming Rate, More Than One Every Week in 2022, by Jo Ellen Nott
7. Death and Inhumane Living Conditions Persist in Nation’s Worst Jail, by Kevin Bliss
8. Third Circuit Holds Consent of All Parties to Magistrate Judge Jurisdiction Required Before Judgment Against Pennsylvania Prisoners, by Mark Wilson
9. SCOTUS Lets “State Secrets” Privilege Bar CIA Contractor Testimony About Torture Already Publicly Known, by Mark Wilson
10. New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy, by Kevin Bliss
11. SCOTUS Kills Condemned Ohio Prisoner’s Effort to Secure Evidence of Mental Impairment to Bolster Habeas Petition, by Benjamin Tschirhart
12. ACLU Pries Loose Employment Record of New Hampshire Trooper Who Detained Woman on Falsified Evidence, Leading to $237,500 Settlement, by Matthew Clarke
13. Prison Profiteer Is Using Sandra Bland’s Death to Sell Surveillance Technology, by Brian Dolinar
14. $3.75 Million Settlement for Estate of Washington Prisoner Who Died From Untreated Breast Cancer, by David Reutter
15. Idaho Provides Nation’s Second Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner, by Mark Wilson
16. After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor, by Chuck Sharman
17. $2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail, by Benjamin Tschirhart
18. Dark, Smoky Cells: As Wildfires Threaten More Prisons, the Incarcerated Ask Who Will Save Their Lives, by Alleen Brown
19. Nebraska Crime Commission Says Dodge County Jail Noncompliant With Reporting Requirements, by Harold Hempstead
20. SCOTUS Kneecaps Condemned Prisoners Claiming Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, by Benjamin Tschirhart
21. New York Closes Moriah ‘Shock Camp’, by Kevin Bliss
22. After Summary Judgment Denied, California Jail Officials Pay $55,000 for Breaking Detainee’s Arm, by Mark Wilson
23. Two Attorneys, Three Employees Sentenced in Bribery Scandal at MTC Texas Prisons, by Keith Sanders
24. Third Illinois Guard Found Guilty In Fatal Beating of Handcuffed State Prisoner, but Attorney General Refuses To Settle With Family, by Matthew Clarke
25. Class Certification Maintained in New York Prisoners’ Suit for Damages Due to Illegally Imposed Post-Release Supervision, by David Reutter
26. Wisconsin Supreme Court Guts State’s Fair Employment Act Protection for Returning Prisoners With Domestic Violence Convictions, by Jacob Barrett
27. California Appeals Court Lets CDCR Define Term Adopted From Legislation, by Kevin Bliss
28. Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Ohio Prison Doctor After Prisoner Blinded by Stroke, by David Reutter
29. New Jersey Supreme Court Forces County to Cough up Settlement Documents With Prisoner Raped By Jail Guard Who Snitched on Fellow Guards, by David Reutter
30. Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation, by David Reutter
31. $1,050,000 Settlement Reached in Disabled Illinois Prisoner’s ADA Lawsuit, by David Reutter
32. Idaho Joins Missouri in Banning Incarceration for Inability To Pay Court Fines, Fees, by Jayson Hawkins
33. Ninth Circuit Sends PLN’s Arizona Censorship Lawsuit Back to District Court, by David Reutter
34. Census Bureau Report Finds Risk of Death Nearly Triples for Prisoners After Release, by Matthew Clarke
35. Ohio County Pays $4 Million To Settle Claim Over Death of Jail Detainee, by Matthew Clarke
36. $7 Million Paid to California Detainee Left Quadriplegic Due to Jail Guards’ Alleged Negligence, by Matthew Clarke
37. Ninth Circuit Vacates California’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Prison Employees, by Mark Wilson
38. $2.5 Million in Confiscated COVID-19 Relief Funds Returned to Arkansas Prisoners After Court Issues Injunction, by David Reutter
39. News in Brief

More from Casey Bastian:

• California Prisoners Sue Gynecologist for Sexual Abuse, Aug. 1, 2025
• Policing the Vulnerable: The Criminalization of Disability, May 15, 2025
• Examining Pro-Prosecution Bias in the Judiciary: Unconscious Biases of a Prosecutorial Background, Feb. 15, 2025
• The Rise of Mass Supervision: From Rehabilitative Alternative to Shadow Carceral State, Oct. 1, 2024
• Demonstrable Remorse, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Alternatives to Incarceration, Aug. 1, 2024
• Minnesota Sex Offender Program: The Indefinite Detention of the Reviled, Aug. 1, 2024
• The 153 Exonerations in 2023 Include 19 Resulting From Threats or Sentences of Death, July 15, 2024
• Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far, March 1, 2024
• Dangerous Encounters: Interactions Between Autistic Individuals and Law Enforcement, Dec. 15, 2023
• U.S. Sentencing Commission Publishes Compassionate Release Datafile for Fiscal Years 2020-­2022, Oct. 1, 2023

More from these topics:

• SCOTUS Announces Sentencing Disparities Created by Nonretroactive Statutory Amendments Cannot Constitute Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons for Compassionate Release, June 1, 2026. First Step Act, Mandatory Minimum Sentence, Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Sentencing Disparity, Compassionate Release.
• Fourth Circuit to BOP Prisoner: Any “Disqualifying Offense” Means Zero FSA Credits, April 1, 2026. First Step Act, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Credits, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences.
• Six Years of the First Step Act: Federal Prison Data Reveal Treatment Gains, Persistent Disparities, and Unanswered Questions, April 1, 2026. Racial Discrimination, Systemic Medical Neglect, First Step Act, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Confinement in Segregated Housing.
• Fourth Circuit Holds Federal Prisoner Does Not Earn First Step Act Time Credits While in Transit Between Prisons, March 1, 2026. Rehabilitation/Recidivism, First Step Act, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Credits.
• Eighth Circuit Announces Presidential Commutation Does Not Moot Challenge to Underlying Sentence, Jan. 1, 2026. Pardons/Clemency, First Step Act, Qualifying Offenses, Sentence Enhancements/Departures, Authority and Jurisdiction.
• BOP Announces New Conditional Placement Date Calculation, Jan. 1, 2026. First Step Act, halfway houses, Community Confinement/Home Detention, Credits, Prison Classification.
• Third Circuit Rules Awarding BOP Prisoners 54 Days of Good Time Per Year Is Pro-­Rated, Jan. 1, 2026. Good Time, First Step Act, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Credits.
• SCOTUS Overturns Oklahoma Prisoner’s Death Sentence After More than 25 Years on Death Row, Nov. 1, 2025. Ex Post Facto, Good Time, Wrongful Conviction, Habeas Corpus, Wrongful Imprisonment, Pardons/Clemency, First Step Act, Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act (CAFRA), Specific Offenses, Controlled Substances, Weapons, Accuracy of Information, Depraved Indifference Murder, Evidence - Circumstantial, Theft, Failure to Disclose, Perjury/Perjured Testimony, Evidence - Failure to Disclose, New Trial - Motions for, Pleas Linked to Cooperation, Evidence - Destruction/Fabrication/Manipulation of, Selective Prosecution/Enforcement, Improper Comments, Official Report, Withholding of Exculpatory Evidence, Exculpatory Evidence - Disclosure Obligations.
• Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Prisoner’s Eligibility for Time Credits, Nov. 1, 2025. Good Time, Habeas Corpus, First Step Act, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Statutory Construction/Interpretation, Death/Bodily Injury, Sentencing Findings.
• SCOTUS Announces Sentence ‘Has Not Been Imposed’ 
for Purposes of First Step Act Retroactivity Upon Resentencing When § 924(c) Offender Sentenced Prior to Act’s Enactment 
but Sentence Subsequently Vacated, Aug. 1, 2025. Retroactivity, First Step Act, Resentencing, Recidivist Enhancements, Stacking Mandatory Minimum Sentences.