More from this issue:

1. Alaska’s Prison System: Dangerous, Deadly Yet Repeating Past Mistakes, by David Reutter
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months
4. North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council
5. Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial
6. Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup
7. Seventh Kentucky Guard Sentenced for Restrained Prisoner’s Beat-down
8. “Botched” and “Ill-Conceived”: BOP Slammed for Plan to Close California Lockup Known as “Rape Club”
9. Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, by Douglas Ankney
10. Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again
11. “You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults
12. In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors, by Douglas Ankney
13. BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate
14. Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Sham Accreditations, by Matthew Clarke
15. Cleveland Jail Warden Dismissed After Asking for More Reentry Assistance for Detainees
16. Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
17. Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels
18. Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death, by David Reutter
19. Ninth Circuit: Alleged Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment to Federal Prisoner in Washington Presents Valid Bivens Claim, by David Reutter
20. Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors
21. Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free
22. Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation
23. Decoding Recidivism: Unraveling Its Complex Metrics and Real Impact
24. Hope Against Hope, by Daryl Waters
25. Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations
26. “You Are Not Above the Law”: Former Indiana Sheriff Jailed for Contempt of Court
27. $15,000 Net Award for Georgia Prisoner’s Delayed Hep-C Treatment, by David Reutter
28. West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food
29. CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail, by David Reutter
30. $500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail
31. Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets, by David Reutter
32. Warden, Eight Employees Arrested After Four Deaths at Wisconsin Prison in Eight Months
33. Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners
34. Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault, by David Reutter
35. Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation
36. Illinois Prisoner Awarded Over $822,000 For Hernia Care Denied by Wexford Health, by Douglas Ankney
37. Minnesota Jailers Shrug Off Detainee’s Agony from Fatal Perforated Bowel as Withdrawal Symptoms
38. Hearing-Impaired Massachusetts Prisoners Win ADA Case
39. Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills
40. Federal Sentencing Guidelines Place Heavy Burden on Incarcerated Victims of Sexual Assaults, by David Reutter
41. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Slows the Hand That State DOC Sticks Into Prisoners’ Pockets, by David Reutter
42. Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Retaliation Claim By Federal Prisoner Against Guard in Illinois Lockup Who Saw Grievance Against Him, by Matthew Clarke
43. Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail
44. $8.9 Million Settlement Reached for N.Y. Prisoner’s Death Following Guards’ Baton Beating, by David Reutter
45. Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions, by David Reutter
46. Eighth Circuit Largely Restores Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guards in Use of Force on Bipolar Prisoner, by David Reutter
47. Maryland Prisoner Prevails in Challenge to Denial of Public Records Requests
48. $2 Million Settlement in Death of Mentally Disabled Detainee Stripped of Anti-Seizure Device at Colorado Jail, by David Reutter
49. Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured
50. Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles
51. Ohio Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s ‘Kite’ Is Public Record, But Denies Damages for Withholding It, by Matthew Clarke
52. $56.7 Million Awarded to “Harlem Park Three,” Exonerated of Baltimore Murder After 36 Years in Prison, by David Reutter
53. Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer, by Douglas Ankney
54. Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group, by David Reutter
55. $4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail, by David Reutter
56. Transgender Maryland Prisoner’s Suit Accuses Guard of Shower Rape
57. Two Prisoners Removed from Texas Death Row Due to Intellectual Disability, by David Reutter
58. 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.
• HRDC Wins Injunction Against Minnesota DOC Policy Banning Its Publications, Sept. 1, 2026. Injunctions, Publications/Books, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, HRDC Litigation.
• Idaho Legislature Moves to Hide Execution Protocol from Judicial Scrutiny, Sept. 1, 2026. Disclosure of Records, Discovery, Public Records, State Legislation, Method of Execution.
• 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).
• Florida Kills Two Prisoners on Same Day, Both Elderly, Sept. 1, 2026. Statistics/Trends, Death Penalty, Death Row, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Barring Enforcement of Executive Order to Transfer Trans Women Prisoners to Men’s Prisons, Aug. 1, 2026. Transfers, Injunctions, Discrimination (Transgender), Failure to Protect (Transgender).
• Alabama Barred from Executing Prisoner by Nitrogen Hypoxia, July 1, 2026. Totality of Conditions, Eighth Amendment, Death Penalty, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Wrongful Use of Force.
• HRDC Wins Injunction to Halt New Mexico Prison Censorship, July 1, 2026. Injunctions, Publications/Books, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, HRDC Litigation.
• Environmental Groups Say the Fight to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz” Isn’t Over, July 1, 2026. Environmental Law, Injunctions, National Environmental Policy Act, Immigration Detention.
• Idaho Will Recruit Law Enforcement Volunteers for Firing Squad Executions, July 1, 2026. Death Penalty, Method of Execution.