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. Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle, by Anthony Accurso
5. Florida’s “Pay to Stay” Law: A Second Sentence for Former Prisoners
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. Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown
9. Disbarred Cincinnati Defense Attorney Who Defrauded Prisoner Clients Gets Three-Year Sentence
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. South Carolina Jailer Gets 10 Years for Sexually Assaulting Nine Detainees and Co-Workers
15. Florida Prisoner Returns to Custody After Overturned Conviction Reinstated
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. Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred, by Douglas Ankney
28. 20 Charged in Nevada Prison Brawl That Left Three Dead
29. Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment
30. Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed
31. Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers, by Brian Nam-Sonenstein, Eric Seligman
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. $2.95 Million Settlement for Untreated Pneumonia Death in Washington Jail
36. Virginia Bribes Prisoners Not to Set Themselves On Fire
37. Medical Copays Blamed for Reducing Prisoner Access to Healthcare
38. New Jersey DOC Sued Twice for Turning “Blind Eye” to “Pervasive” Drug-Smuggling Blamed for Prisoner Deaths
39. Missouri Repeals “Pay-to-Stay” Law
40. New York Guards Indicted for Prisoner’s Murder
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 these topics:

• Washington DOC On Hot Seat Over “Unexpected Fatalities,” Missed Autopsies, May 1, 2025. Criminal justice system reform, Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Medical Neglect/Malpractice, False Statements/Perjury.
• Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death, May 1, 2025. Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Brady/Giglio/Jencks Act Issues.
• Fifth Circuit: Sentence Enhancement for Maintaining Drug Premises Not Satisfied Solely by Defendant’s Single, Conclusory Statement That He ‘Maintained’ Premises When Record Shows Mere ‘Use’ of Premises, April 15, 2025. Premises Liability, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Felony Drug Offense, Confessions and Statements of Defendant.
• Arkansas Supreme Court Rules § 16-93-609(b)(2)(B), Relating to Parole Eligibility for Residential Burglary Conviction, Applies Retroactively to Defendant, April 15, 2025. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Resentencing, Bank Fraud/Robbery/Theft, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release, Eligibility for Parole.
• Ninth Circuit Announces Attorney Cannot Be Compelled to Provide ‘Privilege Log’ Protected Under Fisher if Doing So Would Undermine Client’s Fifth Amendment ‘Act-of-Production Privilege’ and Attorney-Client Privilege, April 15, 2025. Fifth Amendment, False Statements, Testimony or Documents, Attorney/Client, Brady/Giglio/Jencks Act Issues.
• Alabama Governor Commutes Death Sentence, April 1, 2025. Death Penalty/Death Row, Resentencing.
• California Court of Appeal Announces Defendants May Obtain Brady Evidence From Police Officers’ Personnel Files in Advance of § 1172.6 Hearing Requesting Vacatur of Conviction and Resentencing for Certain Types of Murder Convictions, Feb. 15, 2025. Disclosure of Records, Police, Brady Violations, Murder/Felony Murder, Resentencing, Prior Conviction/Sentence/Incarceration, Evidence - Admissibility.
• Massachusetts Supreme Court Vacates Threat-Based Conviction on First Amendment Grounds Because Jury Instructions Failed to Include Mens Rea Element Mandated by Counterman for ‘True-Threat’ Conviction, Feb. 15, 2025. Jury Instructions, Resentencing, Threats, Negligence/Reckless Endangerment.
• 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.
• First Step Act Linked to Modest Reductions in Time Served by Federal Prisoners, Feb. 1, 2025. First Step Act, Resentencing, Credits.