More from this issue:

1. $1.2 Million in Settlements Reached in Suit Over Sacramento Jail Murder, by Douglas Ankney
2. Multitudes Caged for Failure to Pay Child Support, Driving Mass Incarceration, by Matthew Clarke
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. Florida’s “Pay to Stay” Law: A Second Sentence for Former Prisoners
5. Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle, by Anthony Accurso
6. Study Finds Just 1% of Prisoner’s Eighth Amendment Claims Succeed
7. Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department
8. Disbarred Cincinnati Defense Attorney Who Defrauded Prisoner Clients Gets Three-Year Sentence
9. Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown
10. South Carolina Conducts First U.S. Execution by Firing Squad in 15 Years
11. Eleventh Circuit Revives Volunteer Pastor’s First Amendment Claim at Georgia Jail, by Douglas Ankney
12. Trump Guts BOP Guard Union
13. Los Angeles County Jails Record Almost One Death Every Nine Days
14. Florida Prisoner Returns to Custody After Overturned Conviction Reinstated
15. South Carolina Jailer Gets 10 Years for Sexually Assaulting Nine Detainees and Co-Workers
16. Maryland Targets Highest-in-Nation Racial Incarceration Gap
17. Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside
18. Connecticut Court Denies Access to Video of Prisoner’s Fatal Beat-Down by Guards
19. Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer
20. Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death, by Douglas Ankney
21. Cruelty Is Now the Point for BOP
22. New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases
23. Former Prisoner Appointed President’s Pardon “Czar”
24. Oregon DOC Replaces Top Medical Staffers Amid Turmoil
25. Rikers Island Staffers, Contractor and Detainee Sentenced for Smuggling
26. Washington DOC On Hot Seat Over “Unexpected Fatalities,” Missed Autopsies
27. 20 Charged in Nevada Prison Brawl That Left Three Dead
28. Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred, by Douglas Ankney
29. Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed
30. Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment
31. Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers, by Eric Seligman, Brian Nam-Sonenstein
32. Plans to Hold Migrants at Gitmo Hit Snag
33. Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania DOC in Prisoner’s Challenge to 26 Years of Solitary Confinement
34. Studies Link Incarceration with Lower Cancer Survival Rates—For Prisoner’s Partners, Too, by Anthony Accurso
35. Virginia Bribes Prisoners Not to Set Themselves On Fire
36. $2.95 Million Settlement for Untreated Pneumonia Death in Washington Jail
37. Medical Copays Blamed for Reducing Prisoner Access to Healthcare
38. New York Guards Indicted for Prisoner’s Murder
39. Missouri Repeals “Pay-to-Stay” Law
40. New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths
41. $18,000 for New York Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Planted Shank in Cell
42. Kansas Supreme Court Denies Compensation to Former Prisoner Whose Conviction Was Overturned
43. Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder, by Matthew Clarke
44. Missouri Pays More Than $1.2 Million for Deputy Warden’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Warden, by Douglas Ankney
45. New Orleans Public Defender’s “Redeem Team” Says: “Re-entry Is Never Over”
46. Texas Courts, Legislature at Odds over Executing Potentially Innocent Death Row Prisoner
47. ACLU Sues BOP Over Failure to Implement First Step Act Release Credits, by Anthony Accurso
48. Six Deaths in Eleven Months at Washington Jail
49. New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards
50. West Virginia Prison Chief Tapped to Helm BOP
51. Crackdown On Pro-Palestinian Dissent Nabs New York Professor Who Found Link Between Cars and Incarceration
52. Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors
53. Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy
54. Texas Prison Heat Declared Unconstitutional
55. $3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare”
56. BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual
57. Kentucky Jail Sued for Detainee’s Death, Prisoner’s Stillborn Child
58. Wait for Competency Restoration Averages 14 Months in Missouri Jails
59. Jury Deadlocks at Trial of Last BOP Guard Accused at California “Rape Club”
60. News in Brief

More from Douglas Ankney:

• The Dramatic Increase in the Elderly Prison Population Is Fiscally and Morally Irresponsible, Oct. 1, 2026
• Second Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity but Clarifies that 14th Amendment ‘Objective Reasonableness’ Is Standard of Review for Pretrial Detainee’s Claim of Sexual Abuse, Oct. 1, 2026
• Tenth Circuit Vacates Award of Costs to Prison Officials, Revives Prisoner’s Claim Alleging Denial of Access to Functioning Toilets and Exposure to Other Prisoners’ Feces, Oct. 1, 2026
• 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
• Federal Court Upholds Consultants’ Finding that Oklahoma Is Not Honoring Its Consent Decree to Provide Mental Health Treatment, Sept. 1, 2026
• Idaho Legislature Moves to Hide Execution Protocol from Judicial Scrutiny, Sept. 1, 2026
• BOP Denies Providing Substandard Dialysis Treatment Despite Prisoners’ Deaths, Court Filings, Understaffing and Lack of Oversight, 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

More from these topics:

• Ninth Circuit Rules Favorably for Washington Prisoner Whose Writing Submission Was Censored, Oct. 1, 2026. Retaliation, Qualified Immunity, Mail Regulations, Censorship, First Amendment, rights.
• HRDC Wins Injunction Against Minnesota DOC Policy Banning Its Publications, Sept. 1, 2026. Injunctions, Publications/Books, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, HRDC Litigation.
• Ninth Circuit Revives HRDC Challenge to Washington DOC Mail Restrictions, Aug. 1, 2026. Qualified Immunity, Publications/Books, Due Process, Censorship, First Amendment, rights.
• Tenth Circuit: Colorado Governor Unentitled to Eleventh Amendment Immunity on Claim Related to DOC Religious Policies, Aug. 1, 2026. Sovereign Immunity, Religious Practices, Religious Property, First Amendment, rights, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• HRDC Wins Injunction to Halt New Mexico Prison Censorship, July 1, 2026. Injunctions, Publications/Books, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, HRDC Litigation.
• Wisconsin Bans Recording of Prison Phone Calls with Journalists, July 1, 2026. Access to Media, Censorship, First Amendment, First Amendment, rights, Recorded Calls.
• Nebraska Lifts Suspension of Native American Religious Practices Hours Prior to Federal Court Hearing, June 1, 2026. Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices, First Amendment, rights, Religious Freedom/Worship, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• Illinois Jail Reprimanded for Denying Detainees Mail Based on Media Content, P.O. Box Return Address, Settles Detainees’ Suit with $111,825 Payment of Legal Fees, May 1, 2026. Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, Censorship, First Amendment, rights, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
• Indiana DOC Found in Violation of State Public Records Act for Withholding Execution Drug Cost Information, May 1, 2026. Summary Judgment, First Amendment, Public Records Act, Interlocutory Appeals, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• ICE Settles Suit Over Opening Detainees’ Legal Mail, April 1, 2026. Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, First Amendment, rights, Immigration Detention, Attorney/Client.