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. New York Prisoner’s Suit Over Thirteen-Year Solitary Stint Survives, by David Reutter
5. SCOTUS Sides With Condemned Georgia Prisoner Who Wants To Be Executed by Firing Squad, 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. New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy, by Kevin Bliss
10. SCOTUS Lets “State Secrets” Privilege Bar CIA Contractor Testimony About Torture Already Publicly Known, by Mark Wilson
11. ACLU Pries Loose Employment Record of New Hampshire Trooper Who Detained Woman on Falsified Evidence, Leading to $237,500 Settlement, by Matthew Clarke
12. SCOTUS Kills Condemned Ohio Prisoner’s Effort to Secure Evidence of Mental Impairment to Bolster Habeas Petition, by Benjamin Tschirhart
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. $2.45 Million Paid by Wellpath and Macomb County, Michigan, After Detainee’s Withdrawal Death in Jail, by Benjamin Tschirhart
17. After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor, by Chuck Sharman
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. Wisconsin Supreme Court Guts State’s Fair Employment Act Protection for Returning Prisoners With Domestic Violence Convictions, by Jacob Barrett
26. Class Certification Maintained in New York Prisoners’ Suit for Damages Due to Illegally Imposed Post-Release Supervision, by David Reutter
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. Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation, by David Reutter
30. 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
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. Census Bureau Report Finds Risk of Death Nearly Triples for Prisoners After Release, by Matthew Clarke
34. Ninth Circuit Sends PLN’s Arizona Censorship Lawsuit Back to District Court, by David Reutter
35. $7 Million Paid to California Detainee Left Quadriplegic Due to Jail Guards’ Alleged Negligence, by Matthew Clarke
36. Ohio County Pays $4 Million To Settle Claim Over Death of Jail Detainee, 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 Benjamin Tschirhart:

• Fourth Circuit: South Carolina Prisoner’s Bivens Claim Must Detail Unconstitutional Acts of Each Defendant, April 26, 2024
• Louisiana Sheriffs Repeatedly and Conveniently Destroy Public Records, Dec. 15, 2023
• St. Louis City Jails Director Under Fire, County Jail Director Leaves After Nearly $2.7 Million in Legal Payouts, Nov. 15, 2023
• Condemned Arizona Prisoner Reprieved, Nov. 15, 2023
• Sheep and Sheepdogs: Use and Abuse of Non-Lethal Crowd Control Weapons, Nov. 1, 2023
• New York Jailhouse Lawyer Wins Resentencing, Release, Oct. 15, 2023
• Closed Circuit Cameras: Not the Objective Lenses We’re Told, Oct. 1, 2023
• Former Illinois Guards Sentenced for Prisoner’s Fatal Beating, Aug. 15, 2023
• Police Departments Conspire with Boards to Secretly Install License Plate Cameras Without Consent of Residents, Aug. 1, 2023
• New York City Stops Reporting Rikers Island Deaths Amid Rampant Guard Misconduct, July 15, 2023

More from these topics:

• Third Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to Prisoner on Confrontation Clause and Ineffective Assistance Claims Based on Trial Court Reading Entire Criminal Information Into the Record of Co-Conspirator Who Pleaded Guilty, Feb. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Exculpatory No Doctrine, Confrontation Clause/Rights, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
• Ninth Circuit: Defense Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Evidence Obtained as a Result of Police Officer Trespassing on Curtilage of Defendant’s Home, Feb. 1, 2025. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Motions To Suppress, Searches - Home/Curtilage, Suppression.
• Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners: Proving Unreasonableness Under AEDPA, Feb. 1, 2025. AEDPA, Procedural Reasonableness, Reasonableness of Sentence.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Relief Where Both Trial and Appellate Counsel Provided Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Challenge Indictment for Residential Burglary That Failed to Allege Defendant Illegally Entered a ‘Dwelling’, Jan. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Constitutional Challenges/Law.
• Third Circuit Announces Claim of Innocence Does Not Resolve Whether Defendant Would Have Accepted Plea Offer Absent Counsel’s Error and Holds Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Properly Advise Defendant About Mandatory Sentences If Plea Offer Rejected, Dec. 15, 2024. Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Mandatory Minimum Sentence, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas, Rejection.
• Delaware Supreme Court: Counsel Ineffective for Failing to Challenge Search of Cellphone Where Consent Was Ambiguous and Warrant Constituted a General Warrant, Nov. 1, 2024. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet, Warrants - Requirements/Scope/Exceptions.
• Arizona Supreme Court Allows Third PCR Motion Based on IAC for Erroneous Advice About Parole Eligibility Due to ‘Pervasive Confusion’ Regarding Parole Within Legal Community, Nov. 1, 2024. Parole, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Remands/Rehearings/Resentencings.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Where Defense Counsel Failed to Understand State Self-Defense Statute Provides Complete Defense to Felony Murder Based on Felon-in-Possession Charge, Oct. 1, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Felon in Possession Statute, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Murder/Felony Murder.
• Fourth Circuit Vacates Order Denying § 2254 Motion, Remands for Evidentiary Hearing on Whether Counsel’s Failure to Object to Duplicative Drug Conspiracy Counts in Violation of Double Jeopardy Clause Was Strategic, Oct. 1, 2024. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Evidentiary Claims, Drug Trafficking Crimes.
• Third Circuit Orders Evidentiary Hearing on State Prisoner’s Petition Seeking Federal Habeas Relief Because Both State and Federal Courts Denied Relief Without Holding Hearing on IAC Claim That, if Proven, Would Entitle Him to Relief, Aug. 1, 2024. Evidentiary Ruling, Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Counsel - Effective Assistance of.