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 these topics:

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Mandatory Life Without Parole for Felony Murder Unconstitutional Under State Constitution, Holding Article I, Section 13 Provides Broader Protections Than Eighth Amendment, April 1, 2026. Life without Parole (LWOP), Constitution, state, Constitutional Challenges/Law, Resentencing, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
• Washington State Guard’s Conviction Affirmed in Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound Scheme, March 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Conspiracies, Attempts, Solicitations, False Statements/Perjury, Possession or Use of Firearms, Abuse of Position of Trust.
• Aphantasia: Why Truthful Witnesses Can Sound Like Liars, Jan. 1, 2026. Jury Instructions, False Statements/Perjury, Self-Authentication, Voir Dire, Evidence - Integrity/Reliability of, Eyewitness Identification, Character/Reputation/Propensity.
• California Court of Appeal: Trial Courts Have Inherent Authority to Correct Unauthorized Sentences at Any Time Without Habeas Petition, Jan. 1, 2026. Habeas Corpus, Possession or Use of Firearms, Sentences - Authorized, Sentences - Corrections or Modifications of, Effect of Vacatur.
• Utah Supreme Court Announces Framework for Analyzing Combined Brady and Napue Violations, Affirms Postconviction Relief in Capital Murder Case, Jan. 1, 2026. Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Perjury/Perjured Testimony, Constructive/Imputed/Presumed knowledge, Brady/Giglio/Jencks Act Issues.
• Supreme Court of Maryland Announces Division of Correction Must Immediately Apply Time-Served Credit Against Valid Sentences When Convictions Are Vacated and May Not Toll Execution Pending Reprosecution; New Sentences Arising From New Convictions Take, Jan. 1, 2026. Habeas Corpus, Overdetention, Effect of Vacatur, Credits, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences.
• Five New York Prison Guards Charged with Employment Fraud, Dec. 1, 2025. Guard Misconduct, Workers' Compensation, False Statements/Perjury, Bribery/Extortion/Theft, Fraud and Deceit.
• Generative Suspicion: What Defense Lawyers Must Know About AI-Generated Police Reports, Nov. 15, 2025. Evidence - Integrity/Reliability of, Daubert Standards, Witnesses - Examination of, Official Report, Brady/Giglio/Jencks Act Issues.
• Ninth Circuit Holds Untruthful Responses to Questions Government Is Not Permitted to Ask on Visa Application Is Still Fraud if Responses Could Have Influenced Decision to Grant Request for Visa, Oct. 15, 2025. False Statements/Perjury, Essential Elements of Crime, Fraud and Deceit, Immigration Law/Offenses, Authority and Jurisdiction.
• SCOTUS Announces Sentence ‘Has Not Been Imposed’ 
for Purposes of First Step Act Retroactivity Upon Resentencing When § 924(c) Offender Sentenced Prior to Act’s Enactment 
but Sentence Subsequently Vacated, Aug. 1, 2025. Retroactivity, First Step Act, Resentencing, Recidivist Enhancements, Stacking Mandatory Minimum Sentences.