More from this issue:

1. NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits, by David Reutter
2. Woman Denied Cardiac Care in Federal Prison in Texas—Despite Personal Assurance of BOP Medical Director
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole
5. Drunken “Karen” Jail Guard in Michigan Invades Former Home, Demands to Speak to Prosecutor When Cops Arrive
6. Months-­Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits
7. Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days
8. Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available
9. Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery
10. From Prison Cook to Praised Pizza Chef
11. Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired
12. 428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years
13. California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards
14. One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails
15. Sentencing Project Finds “Important Inroads” Against Mass Incarceration, Racial Inequality Behind Bars
16. HRDC Awarded Over $130,000 in Legal Costs and Fees for Defendant’s “Bad Faith” in Maine Records Lawsuit, by David Reutter
17. Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute, by Matthew Clarke
18. Oregon Prisoner’s Parole Deferral Based on “Dangerous Offender” Statute Reversed
19. Maryland Compensates Exonerated Prisoner Over $340,000
20. Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee, by David Reutter
21. $33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help, by Douglas Ankney
22. $9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit, by Matthew Clarke
23. Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery, by David Reutter
24. Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing
25. Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth, by David Reutter
26. Louisiana Supreme Court Springs Prisoner From Death Row
27. $1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide, by David Reutter
28. Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree, by Douglas Ankney
29. California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails
30. Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent”, by Douglas Ankney
31. Massachusetts High Court Calls Denial of Prisoner’s Medical Parole without Risk Assessment Arbitrary and Capricious, by Douglas Ankney
32. Third Circuit Revives Disabled New Jersey Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Walking Cane, by Douglas Ankney
33. Nine Employees Arrested at Troubled South Carolina Jail
34. Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help
35. Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School
36. Exceptional Punishments, by Kate Weisburd
37. N.J. Prison Guard Sacked Over Mock George Floyd Killing
38. Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup
39. Russian Opposition Leader Dies in Prison
40. Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018, by Matthew Clarke
41. $8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital, by David Reutter
42. $11.6 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Debit Release Card Case in Washington; California Victory Remanded
43. Georgia Sheriff Resigns After Groping TV Judge’s Breast
44. North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter, by Matthew Clarke
45. Finding Indiana Grievance Process “Unavailable,” Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to 22 Prisoners on Same Day
46. Alabama Denies Parole to Former Sheriff Convicted of Corruption
47. Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement
48. Eleventh Circuit Calls Georgia Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit Outside PLRA “Strike Zone”
49. $19.3 Million Awarded to Former Illinois Prisoner Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted by Prison Counselor
50. Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism, by Matthew Clarke
51. Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends
52. Washington DOC Outfits Guards with Narcan
53. Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes, by Matthew Clarke
54. Class-­Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC
55. Fifth Circuit Finds Louisiana Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Not Sufficiently “Atypical” to Violate the Constitution, by David Reutter
56. Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria, by Douglas Ankney
57. Eighth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Missouri Prison Chief in Sexual Abuse Claims Against Former Guard, by David Reutter
58. Ninth Circuit Says Federal Prisoner in California May Have Bivens Claim for Delays in Medical Care Allegedly to Cover Up Assault by BOP Guard
59. $2,000 Paid to Former Arkansas Jail Detainees Given Horse Dewormer for COVID-­19, by Douglas Ankney
60. At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed
61. News in Brief

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Second Circuit Vacates Above-Guidelines Firearm-Trafficking Sentence Based on Failure to Assist Law Enforcement and Unexplained Reliance on Factors Already Included in Guidelines Range, Sept. 1, 2026
• Ninth Circuit Reverses Convictions, Holding Requirement That Defendant Testify Before Displaying Hand Tattoos Violates Fifth Amendment, Sept. 1, 2026
• Ohio Supreme Court Announces Postconviction DNA-Testing Orders Need Only Identify Statutory Reason to Satisfy R.C. 2953.73(D) “Reasons” Requirement, Sept. 1, 2026
• Idaho Legislature Moves to Hide Execution Protocol from Judicial Scrutiny, Sept. 1, 2026
• New Jersey Court Rules That Denial of Transgender Prisoner’s Transfer Request Violates Neither Discrimination Law nor Equal Protection Clause, Sept. 1, 2026
• Federal Court Upholds Consultants’ Finding that Oklahoma Is Not Honoring Its Consent Decree to Provide Mental Health Treatment, Sept. 1, 2026
• BOP Denies Providing Substandard Dialysis Treatment Despite Prisoners’ Deaths, Court Filings, Understaffing and Lack of Oversight, Sept. 1, 2026
• New Jersey Supreme Court Orders Plenary Hearing Before Special Adjudicator on Reliability of Fingerprint Evidence, Holding Century of Judicial Acceptance Did Not Satisfy Trial Court’s Gatekeeping Obligation Under N.J.R.E. 702, Aug. 1, 2026
• En Banc Eleventh Circuit Announces All Parents, Including Those Convicted of Child-Sex Offenses, Enjoy Fundamental Right to Live With Their Children, Holding Alabama Residency Prohibition Subject to Strict Scrutiny, Aug. 1, 2026
• Seventh Circuit Announces Courts May Examine Individual Officer’s Subjective Purpose When Assessing Whether Warrantless Administrative Inspection Was Pretextual, Holding Suppression Required Where Trooper’s Sole Motive for Stop Was Criminal Investigati, Aug. 1, 2026

More from these topics:

• “Nothing Short of Disgraceful”: New York Prisoner Wins Injunction Ordering Cancer Treatment Delayed Seven Years, Sept. 1, 2026. Cancer, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Injunctions, Deliberate Indifference.
• BOP Denies Providing Substandard Dialysis Treatment Despite Prisoners’ Deaths, Court Filings, Understaffing and Lack of Oversight, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Staffing, Inadequate Health Care Facilities.
• Mississippi DOC Held Mentally Unwell Prisoners in Solitary, Many Died Because of It, Sept. 1, 2026. Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Staff Training, Deliberate Indifference.
• $800,000 Settlement Reached in Hawai‘i Jail Suicide Case, Sept. 1, 2026. Staffing, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides.
• $280,000 Paid for South Carolina Detainee’s Death in Charleston Jail, Sept. 1, 2026. Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Contractor Liability, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Monell Liability.
• $5.4 Million Jury Verdict Against Riverside County in Suit Over Jail Fentanyl Death, Sept. 1, 2026. Failure to Treat, Drug Overdose, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Monell Liability, Deliberate Indifference.
• New Jersey Court Rules That Denial of Transgender Prisoner’s Transfer Request Violates Neither Discrimination Law nor Equal Protection Clause, Sept. 1, 2026. Transfers, Civil Commitment, Discrimination (Transgender), Equal Protection Clause/Claims, Sexually Dangerous Persons/Sexual Violent Predators.
• States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons— But Prisons Were Never Humane, Sept. 1, 2026. Retaliation for Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Protests, Failure to Treat, Immigration Detention.
• Isolation and Medical Neglect at Illinois’ Joliet Treatment Center Drive Prisoners to Set Fatal Fires, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Security Systems, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
• Court Shuts Down Arizona Attempt to Fill Medical Staff Vacancies with Under-Qualified Providers, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Staffing, Injunctions, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).