More from this issue:

1. Aramark: Prison Food for Thought
2. Southern California Jail Guard Arrested With 104 Pounds of Fentanyl
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts
5. $500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days, by David Reutter
6. These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years, by Victoria Law
7. Six Deaths in Just Over Six Months at Alabama Jail
8. Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide, by Douglas Ankney
9. Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower
10. Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month, by Douglas Ankney
11. $32,000 Settlement for Failure to Provide Insulin to Diabetic Wisconsin Prisoner
12. Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration
13. $7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment
14. Autistic Detainee’s Death in Pittsburgh Jail Blamed on “Culture” That Left Him “Punished Instead of Treated”
15. HIV and Incarcerated People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Douglas Ankney
16. $6,500 Paid to Illinois Prisoner After Denied Records Request
17. Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged
18. $125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing, by David Reutter
19. Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged
20. Class-Action Challenge to Medical Care at Tennessee Jail Results in $3.8 Million Settlement
21. Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed
22. Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose, by David Reutter
23. Arizona Sheriff Accused of Misusing Detainee Funds to Buy Guns, Ammo
24. Three Texas Prison Guards Among 13 Charged in Sprawling Smuggling Scheme
25. Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths, by Matthew Clarke
26. Washington Superior Court Says Jail Cannot Bill Poor Detainees for Medical Care
27. Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape, by Matthew Clarke
28. Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath
29. Ninth Circuit Refunds Filing Fee to “Struck-Out” California Prisoner Denied Indigent Status Under PLRA, by Matthew Clarke
30. Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee
31. Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption?, by Douglas Ankney
32. The Graying of American Prisons
33. Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth, by Douglas Ankney
34. $10 Million Reimbursed for Vacated Washington Drug Possession Convictions, by David Reutter
35. “Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit, by Matthew Clarke
36. Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands, by Douglas Ankney
37. Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up, by David Reutter
38. Three-Year Sentence for One of Four BOP Employees Charged With Ignoring Fatally Ill Federal Prisoner in Virginia
39. FTC Orders GTL/ViaPath to Help 650,000 Customers Whose Info Was Stolen, Posted on Dark Web, by Douglas Ankney
40. “There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee, by Edward Lyon
41. Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste, by David Reutter
42. Qualified Immunity Denied to Former New Mexico Warden in Prisoner’s Sexual Abuse Claim
43. Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired
44. HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case
45. BOP Guards Plead Guilty in Smuggling Ring at Closed Manhattan Lockup
46. San Diego Jury Deadlocks on Charges Against Jail Doctor in Detainee’s Death, Nurse Acquitted
47. Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, by Douglas Ankney
48. Virginia Supreme Court Denies New Sentence Credits to State Prisoner Serving “Mixed” Sentence, by Douglas Ankney
49. Massachusetts Makes Calls Free From Prisons and Jails
50. Ohio Supreme Court Orders Records Produced for State Prisoner, by David Reutter
51. $25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years, by David Reutter
52. Seventh Circuit Lets Illinois Prisoner Proceed In Forma Pauperis, Despite Trust Account Balance Exceeding Filing Fee, by Douglas Ankney
53. Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform
54. BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas
55. Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits, by David Reutter
56. BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown
57. $15,000 to Virginia Prisoner Mauled by DOC K-9, by Matthew Clarke
58. California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers
59. “Sugar Daddy” Pennsylvania Constable Accused of Recruiting “Sugar Babies” at Jail
60. West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy, by David Reutter
61. Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars
62. North Carolinian Left in Jail Awaiting Trial for 11 Years
63. Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail, by David Reutter
64. Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died, by David Reutter
65. News in Brief

More from these topics:

• Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm, March 1, 2025. Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Electronic Tablets, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Tapes/Music, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps, Jan. 15, 2025. Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors, Securus.
• Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps, Jan. 15, 2025. JPay, Inc., Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, Securus.
• Eighth Circuit Asked to Block New FCC Rules Capping Prison Phone Rates and Eliminating Ancillary Fees and Kickbacks, Nov. 15, 2024. Telephone Rates, Federal Funds.
• FCC Slashes Prison and Jail Phone Rates, Caps Video Call Cost, Eliminates “Site Commission” Kickbacks, Oct. 15, 2024. Telephone Rates, Video Visitation, Federal Funds, Private Phone Contractors, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free, July 1, 2024. Telephone Rates.
• Los Angeles County Makes Jail Phone Calls Free, June 1, 2024. Telephones, Telephone Rates.
• Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath, May 1, 2024. RICO, Telephone Rates, Civil RICO, HRDC Litigation, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available, April 1, 2024. Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Securus.
• Compensation Awarded to California Non-Profit and HRDC Officials for Efforts Reducing Prison Phone Rates, Dec. 1, 2023. Advocacy, Telephone Rates, 18-B Compensation.