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Archive: 2007

December

• Texas DA's Closed Files Exempt From Disclosure Under Act
• 8th Circuit Upholds Federal DNA Collection Statute
• One-Off Offing: Why You Won't See a Disbarment Like Mike Nifong's Again by David Feige
• Guards Injured Off Duty Assisting Accident Victims Not Entitled to Benefits
• Massachusetts’ Corrections Commissioner Has Duty to Comply with Court’s Transfer Order
• Wrongful Death At Wallens Ridge State Prison Settled For $1,540,000
• New York Settles Prisoner Slip & Fall Case for $7,500
• Head Games by Alan Prendergast
• Op-Ed: TYC Facilities Need Independent Oversight by Michele Deitch
• Willful and Malicious Act Required for Minnesota fficial Immunity Precludes Summary Judgment
• 1983 Action Deemed Successive Habeas Petition; Reversed by Supreme Court
• Texas Grand Jury Information, Prisoners' Record Requests Statutorily Denied
• Document's Exemption From Production Under Act Dependant On Pending Charges Outcome
• Texas Prisoners Have No Right to Record Requests
• Georgia Death Row Prisoner Not Afforded Evidence To Litigate Case
• Settlement Agreement Confidentiality Provisions Maintained, Not Exposed In Courtroom Dispute
• Federal Prisoner Receives Maximum 46 Month Sentence For Knife Possession
• Warrantless Arrest Warrants Prompt Probable Cause Hearing, Abused Innocent Detainee Prevails
• Prisoners' Record Requests Enforceable Under U.S. Constitution and N.Y. Law
• Citizen Who Triggered Investigation Against Baltimore Police Refused Access To Report's Findings
• Secretary Of Corrections And Parole Commission Chairman Can Release Statutorily Protected Prisoners' Records
• Deceased Prisoner's Medical Reports Ordered Disclosed To Commission Of Correction Chairman
• Attica And Coxsackie Riot Tapes' Production Ordered To Media With Appropriate Redaction
• New York School Construction Authority's Property Acquisition Details Ordered Disclosed
• In Forma Pauperis Status Does Not Waive Copying Fees When Requesting Records
• Settlement Agreement Involving New York Principal's Dismissed Disciplinary Actions Ordered Disclosed
• WI ACLU Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights by Larry Dupuis
• Nondisclosure Of Prosecutor's Investigative Notes Reversed, Remanded For Inspection To Determine Merit
• Off Duty CA Jail Guard Acted Under Color of State Law by Saying He Was a Cop
• Tennessee Prisoners Have No Right to Specific Classification, Only the Determination Thereof
• New York Prisoner's Property Claim Accrues On Date Administrative Exhaustion Denied
• Oregon Protesters Awarded $845,000 in Excessive Force Actions
• Texas Prisoners Not Entitled To Records Request Under 2004 Act
• $5,000 Awarded To Canadian Prisoner Exposed To Second Hand Smoke
• $750,000 Settlement Reached In Virginia Police Abuse Case
• Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff's Attempted Sexual Assault Settles For $55,000
• Kentucky Prisoners Requesting Account Statement Must Pay Required Fee
• South Carolina Law Enforcement Reports Ordered Disclosed To Media
• Female Ohio Guards Awarded $475,000 For Gender Discrimination Regarding Assignment, Promotion
• Georgia Sheriff Offers Requested Documents After Legal Action Initiated
• Alabama Court Allows City Clerk's Addition To Records Request Statute
• Alabama Court Orders Birmingham Police Department, City Council Audit Reports Disclosed
• Tennessee Public Records Act Requires Fees For Copying, Production
• Michigan: $3.3 Million Settlement for 9 Years Wrongful Imprisonment
• Pregnant Woman’s Ingestion of Cocaine Not Delivery to Her Baby in Texas
• PLRA 150% Attorney Fee Cap Applies to All Attorney Work, Including Appellate Work
• $250,000 Settlement Received in Massachusetts Police Beating
• Public Has Right to Investigative Reports from Wyoming Prisons
• NV Prisoner's Right-to-Private-Mental-Health-Consultation Suit to go to Trial
• Texas Prisoners Have No Lawful Right To Their Own Records
• Otherwise Exempt NY Correctional Incident Reports, Related Documents Ordered Disclosed With Appropriate Redaction
• Eye Loss from Guard Assault Nets $162,500 For DC Prisoner
• States' Incarceration Costs Continue to Rise by Robert Woodman
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Forced Religion Claim
• Untreated Periodontal Disease, Loss of Teeth Results in $110,000 Jury Verdict for NY Prisoner
• False Arrest and Broken Jaw Results in $300,000 Michigan Jury Verdict
• Plaintiffs Granted SJ in Maine Strip-Search Case
• $620,000 Settlement for Florida Jail Beating Death
• Seeking Evidence for DNA Testing Allowed Under § 1983
• Disciplinary Action Review for Failure to Produce Urine Sample Barred As Untimely
• Beating by Kentucky Jail Guards Results in $1,150,000 Jury Verdict
• Sovereign Immunity Not Waived by Federal Extradition Act
• Paruresis Diagnosis Required for Justification of Urinalysis Noncompliance
• Records Disclosure Ordered In Deputies' Misconduct And Remanded To Determine Attorney's Fees
• Adherence To Administrative Procedure And Prepayment Required When Requesting Records' Production
• Paruresis No Excuse for Failure to Urinate Absent Medical Verification
• Claims Previously Litigated, Not Directly Appealed, Raised At Trial Barred For Habeas
• Using Jail Phones After Verbal and Posted Warnings of Recording Implies Consent
• Lawfully Mandated Disclosure, Contract Stipulation Precludes Breech For Settlement Agreement Production
• State Secrets Privilege Protects U.S. in. Erroneous Rendition Suit by Matthew Clarke
• Intent--Not Ability--To Transmit HIV Matters in Attempted Murder Trial
• Dismissed Paruresis Action Remanded for Proper Venue
• Absent Medical Documentation, Disciplinary Action for Failure to Urinate Stands
• Abuse of Discretion to Deny Leave to Amend
• Once Court Orders Arrestee Held, Police Have No Duty to Investigate Mistaken Identity
• Attorneys May be Sued as State Actors When Colluding with Judge by Matthew Clarke
• Missing Ramadan Deadline Insufficient Cause to Deny Right to Attend by Bob Williams
• MA Man’s Blood Test from Hospital Admissible in Drunk Driving Trial
• IL Prisoner Beaten by Cops and Not Provided Medical Attention States 1983 and Negligence Claims
• Eighth Circuit Holds Partial Exhaustion Requires Total Dismissal
• MA Prisoner’s Rights Not Violated by Strip Searches
• Bail Enhancement Not Excessive When Fulfilling Particular Purpose; Hearing Must Be Held
• Chinese Citizen's Misdemeanor Assault Does Not Justify Removal Under Crime of Violence; Entitled to Fees Under EAJA
• Discovery Request Petition Prohibited While Another Court Entertains Post conviction Proceedings
• New York Prisoner Awarded $100,000 for Delayed Surgeries From Work Place Fall
• Alabama Corporations Serving Municipalities Ordered to Comply With Open Records Act
• Human Bargaining Chips by Joanne Mariner
• Charging Excessive Fees Preparing, Producing Records Prohibited Under Freedom Of Information Act
• Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David Reutter (p 1)
• South Carolina Litigation Act Does Not Apply to Post-conviction Proceedings
• California Supreme Court Ignores Statutory Language to Reduce Lifers' "Expectation" of Parole to Only a "Hope"
• Summary Judgment Reversed on Denial of Prisoner Atheist Group by Bob Williams
• California Fair Employment and Housing Act Claim Analyzed
• CA DOC Must Arbitrate Grievances with Guards
• Suit Filed by Pro Se Prisoner When Received by Court
• New York Jail Visitor Injured in Prison Van Accident Awarded $1,476,431
• Anesthetized Prisoner Awarded $500 for Fall and Injuries
• Skin Ulcer from Delouser Nets Michigan Jail Prisoner $3,500 Settlement
• Secret Settlement in Illinois Cell Fire Suit
• Kansas Medical Neglect Death Case Settled for $35,000
• Severed Spinal Nerve from Botched Surgery Nets NY Prisoner $118,000
• Fifth Circuit: No FLSA Minimum Wage for Texas Prisoners
• Female Montana Prisoner Attacked by Male Prisoner Paid $30,000
• Inadequate Anemia Treatment Nets California Jail Prisoner $65,000 Settlement
• Ingrown Nail Leads to Leg Amputation and $400,000 Georgia Jury Verdict
• Texas Prison Guard’s Convictions Upheld Again
• Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana
• DC Prisoner Assaulted by Other Prisoners Suffers Brain Damage, Awarded $1.6 Million
• Woodshop Accident Mangles New Hampshire Prisoner’s Hand, Nets $10,000 Verdict
• Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Penis Injury in Farming Accident Nets $750,000 Jury Verdict
• Louisiana Prisoner Paid $1,822 in Emotional Damages for Moving Dead Body
• Virginia Prisoner Has No Standing To Access Records Under State’s FOIA
• NY Prisoner Awarded $6,800 After Dough Rolling Accident
• Nurse’s Head Slap Nets Virginia Prisoner $16,676
• California Prison Chaplain’s Sexual Harassment of Female Employee Yields $439,000 Jury Verdict
• New York Prisoner’s Saw Mill Injuries Net $736,000
• California Prisoner IFP State Civil Filing Fee Statutes Interpreted by John Dannenberg
• Ohio Prisoner’s Entitled to Notice of Post-Release Control at Sentencing
• Tenth Circuit OKs First Raising Qualified Immunity on SJ
• Gay Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Discrimination Suit Settled for $750
• Ohio Attorney Suspended from Law Practice for Two Years after Misconduct
• Wisconsin Jail Heart Attack Case Settled for $25,000
• California Prisoner Who Broke Already Damaged Jail Cell Door is Not Liable for Full Cost of Replacement
• Ohio Probation Violator Entitled to Credit for Time Served in Halfway House
• West Virginia Supreme Court Rules on Litigious Prisoners by John Dannenberg
• Alabama Jail Dispatcher Awarded $250,157 for Sexual Harassment/Retaliation
• Prisoner-Exclusion Clause in Virginia's Freedom-Of-Information-Act is Not Unconstitutional
• $4.9 Million Settlement in Louisiana Jail Prisoner-On-Prisoner Beating
• $4.9 Million Settlement in Louisiana Jail Prisoner-On-Prisoner Beating
• False Arrest Nets Guard and Wife $1.2 Million
• $57,700 Verdict for Attack on Sleeping NY Jail Prisoner
• Gay NJ Guard Awarded $2.8 Million for Sexual Harassment, Discrimination
• Texas: Late Affidavit of Indigence Satisfies Fee Payment Requirement; Case Dismissed on Remand
• TN Chancery Court Must Award Reasonable, Rather Than All, Costs and Fees to Winner in Public Records Act Cases
• Total Exhaustion Rule Should Apply Separately to Each Plaintiff
• Months of Cold-Wet Conditions States Inadequate Shelter Claim
• NY Sex-Offender Properly Classified as Risk Level II Where Risk Assessment Points Place Him in That Category
• NY Prisoners Entitled to Assistant to Help Prepare Their Defenses in Tier 3 Disciplinary Hearings
• New York Prisoner's Prior Convictions for Sex Offenses Are Sufficient for Level 3 Classification
• Disciplinary Rule Description Rather than Title Controls
• DC Circuit Awards Fees in CIA FOIA Suit
• $35,000 Settlement in Maine Jail Strip-Search Case
• Federal Law Requiring Felons Submit DNA Sample Constitutional
• AZ Prisoner's Denial of Transfer to Release Center by Changing His Sex-Offense Treatment Rating Satisfies Due Process
• NY Sex Offender's Risk Level 3 Classification Based on Credible Information, Thus Affirmed
• $500,000 Paid in Miami Prisoner’s Beating
• Attack by Fellow Prisoner Nets South Carolina Prisoner $30,000
• Attempted Hanging Suit Settled for $1.5 Million by California Jail
• Florida’s Private Prison Industry a State Agency Entitled to Sovereign Immunity
• NY Sex Offender's Risk Level Three Classification Affirmed
• Maine Strip Search Case Nets $825,000 in Attorney Fees
• Arizona Applies PLRA to State Court § 1983 Suits
• Michigan DOC Employees Immune From State Court Damages for Raping Women Prisoners
• Maryland Public Information Act Requires Disclosure of Criminal Case File To Defendant
• Arresting Protestors Without Warrant Verdict Upheld
• Both Thumbs, One Finger Amputated Nets Prisoner $25,000
• Prima Facie Showing of Actual Innocence Defeats Texas Successive Writ Rule
• Filing of Lawsuits Generally Protected Under First Amendment
• Disclosure of HIV-Status is Constitutional and Tort Claim in Wisconsin
• $250,000 Settlement Received in Police Beating
• Jail Policy of Cross Gender Guard Doesn’t Establish Liability in Guard Rape
• Retroactive Application of NJ Sex Offender Law Upheld
• Charging Prisoner for Injured Guard’s Medical Expenses Upheld
• Harassment By Prisoners Cannot Create a Hostile Work Environment
• Heck Applies to Suits Over Seized Property
• State Law Claims in Federal Suits Must Be Exhausted
• OK Prisoners' Argument, Raised for First Time on Appeal, Not Considered
• Denying Work Release to HIV Positive Amputee May Violate ADA
• California Statute Banning Police Defamation Unconstitutional
• ADA Doesn’t Apply to Police Shooting Mentally Ill
• Trial Required Over Firing of Juvenile Prison Warden for Whistleblowing
• All Claims Must Be Exhausted Before Suit is Filed
• Outside Spiritual Leaders Must be Allowed Access to Prisoners
• Brutality Claims Must Be Exhausted
• New York Prisoner Awarded $2,600 For Fractured Fibula, Improper Treatment
• Juvenile Adjudication May Not Preclude Force Claim in Police Shooting
• Alabama Prisoners Must Be Afforded Access To The Courts
• Texas Attorney General Determines Documents' Exemption After Use of Force Against Prisoner
• THE RISE OF AMERICA'S PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by David Ladipo
• Amended Tennessee Statute Ruled Retroactive For Denial Of Records Request
• Tennessee Act Exempts Only Pending Investigative Materials From Public Disclosure
• Tennessee Prisoners Entitled to Submit Public Records Act Requests
• European Court of Human Rights Awards Russian Prisoner $20,060 For Overcrowding by Matthew Clarke (p 12)
• Texas Wrongful Death Jail Lawsuit Settles For $375,000 (p 13)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 14)
• Problematic California Private Prison Sold to San Bernardino County by John Dannenberg (p 15)
• Prisoner’s Rights Profile: John Midgley by Todd Matthews (p 16)
• Missouri: New State Law Conceals Identity of Executioners by John Dannenberg (p 19)
• California DOC Settles Federal Suit to Permit Bible Study Materials; Establishes Pilot Program For Screening Books and CDs by John Dannenberg (p 20)
• National Conference for Prison Book Projects Held in Urbana-Champaign by Brian Dolinar (p 20)
• Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby (p 22)
• Texas GEO Prison Squalor Drives Idaho Prisoner to Suicide by Matthew Clarke (p 23)
• Policy Lock-Down, The Institute On Money In State Politics, 95 pp., softbound, April 2006 by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Public, Private Prison Escapes in Ohio by Gary Hunter (p 25)
• Sudden Rise in New Jersey Prison Guard Firings by Matthew Clarke (p 26)
• Michigan’s Solution to Prisoner Healthcare: Close the Prison by David Reutter (p 26)
• Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum by Greg Dober (p 28)
• FBI Investigates Arkansas Guard Violence (p 28)
• PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Fulton County Jail in Georgia (p 30)
• $4,500 Jury Award in Delayed Medical Treatment of Illinois Prisoner Upheld (p 30)
• Arizona Jail Sex Results in Charges for Guards, Prisoner by David Reutter (p 31)
• California DOC Settles With Mistreated Diabetic Prisoner For $600,000 (p 32)
• Former Florida Prison Officials Sentenced to Federal Prison by David Reutter (p 32)
• Scottish Court Holds Prison Phone Call Imprinting Violates European Convention On Human Rights (p 33)
• Bail Bond Businesses Getting Black Eye in Texas, California by Gary Hunter (p 34)
• Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner Assaulted With Hot Water Awarded $50,000 (p 36)
• Wisconsin Felon Convicted of Voter Fraud for Voting (p 37)
• County, Contractor Settle Diabetic New Jersey Prisoner’s Death for $700,000 (p 37)
• California Prisoner Workers’ Compensation Eligibility Questioned By Legislators by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• Connecticut Prisoners’ Families Gouged on Phone Calls (p 38)
• California’s Mother-Child Alternative Prison Centers Investigated (p 39)
• Wrongfully Imprisoned Ohio Man Settles With State for $260,000 (p 39)
• Former Illinois DOC Director, Former Prisoner Advocate, Others Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges (p 40)
• BJS Releases Statistics on Vets in Prison in 2004 (p 40)
• Eighth Circuit Holds Sweat Patches Generally Reliable (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Arizona Law Requires Ineligible Prisoners to Fund Transition Programs (p 44)

November

• A Guantanamo Index by Joanne Mariner
• TOWARD A MORE ELABORATE TYPOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES: LIBERALIZING CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT LAWS AND POLICIES
• Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide by John Dannenberg (p 1)
• An Unprecedented Crime: Mass Torture in America. And How to Stop It by Lance Tapley
• Suit Over Death in Rockwall County, Texas, Settles for $100,000 (p 9)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Texas Last State in Union to Get Prison Phones by Matthew Clarke (p 11)
• Habeas Hints: Habeas Year in Review: 2007 by Kent A. Russell (p 12)
• Dallas County Jail Deficient, Says 2006 Report; DOJ Files Suit by Gary Hunter (p 14)
• $56,000 Settlement for Torturous Eight Hours in New Jersey Jail (p 15)
• Arizona and Indiana Prisoner Uprising at GEO-Run Prison in Indiana (p 16)
• Innocent Indiana Man Awarded $9 Million for 20 Years Imprisonment (p 17)
• Five-Year Forecast: Prison Population Will Swell 13%—Triple America’s Growth Rate (p 18)
• Federal Jury Awards $530,000 for Wrongful Death in Minnesota Jail by Michael Rigby (p 18)
• Michigan’s Law Attaching Prisoner Retirement Benefits Trumped By Federal Law (p 19)
• Overcrowded Washington DOC’s Solution: Ship ’Em Out of State by David Reutter (p 20)
• Oklahoma Court Orders Sentenced Prisoners Transported to Prison (p 22)
• MDC Brooklyn: Sex Scandal and 11 Staff Indicted for Beating Prisoners by Matthew Clarke (p 22)
• PHS Fails Benchmarks In NYC Jail Medical Contract; Fined $250,000 (p 23)
• Like America, Japan Allows Guards to Walk After Prisoner Abuse Convictions (p 24)
• Indiana DOC Agrees to Remove Mentally Ill Prisoners from Control Units (p 24)
• March Madness in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke (p 25)
• Rikers Island Diapered Mentally Ill in Segregation (p 26)
• Prisoners Died By the Thousands Between 2001 and 2004 by Michael Rigby (p 26)
• Reformed Dental Care Will Have Ohio Prisoners Smiling by Michael Rigby (p 27)
• U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise by Michael Rigby (p 28)
• Inadequate Medical Care Alleged at Alameda County, CA Jail – Four Prisoners Dead (p 28)
• Corruption in Awarding California DOC Medical Contract Exposed by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• State Auditor Flunks California DOC For Failure To Make Prison Population Projections by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit (p 31)
• California DOC Guards Win Injunction to Stop Prisoner Transfers Out-Of-State; Transfers Continue While State Appeals (p 32)
• California DOC Pays PLN’s Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• $150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner’s Fall-Related Death (p 33)
• Cook County, Illinois, To Pay $4,575,000 for Nonconsensual STD Testing (p 33)
• Utah DOC Audit: Ingrained Staff Cronyism Stymies Workplace Effectiveness by John Dannenberg (p 34)
• California DOC Contract Registry Pharmacist Accused of Diverting 93% of Referrals to His Own Corporation (p 34)
• New York High Court Invokes Due Process Rights for Civil Commitment of Alleged Sexual Predators (p 35)
• Pennsylvania Prison Legal Mail Policy Unconstitutional, Enjoined by Matthew Clarke (p 36)
• California’s Prison Drug Procurements Separate from Other State Agencies (p 36)
• Federal Prisoner Beaten On Texas Recreation Yard Awarded $350,000 (p 37)
• “Please Rip Us Off” Florida Officials Tell Private Prison Companies by David Reutter (p 38)
• California DOC Federal Healthcare Receiver Issues Master Remedial Plan by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• California Inspector General: $1 Billion In DOC Drug Treatment Program “A Complete Waste Of Money” by Marvin Mentor (p 40)
• Study on Barriers to Employment of Ex-Prisoners in Milwaukee Released by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Connecticut Strip Search Suit Settles For $2.5 Million (p 44)

October

• Jailhouse Justice: Phoenix New Times article on failure to protect at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson
• Recall Joe! - Phoenix New Times article on Sheriff Arpaio's relection campaign, past misdeeds by John Dougherty
• Outlaw Joe - Phoenix New Times article on political schemes involving Sheriff Joe Arpaio by John Dougherty
• Boob's Tube - Phoenix New Times article about Sheriff Arpaio's attack on political opponent by Paul Rubin
• The Cost of Cruelty - $9 million verdict for prisoner's death at Sheriff Arpaio's Maricopa Co. jail by John Dougherty
• Jail Bait - Phoenix New Times article about prisoner badly beaten in Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson
• Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution - Sheriff Arpaio's assault on the First Amendment by Michael Lacey
• Below the Belt - Phoenix New Times article on Sheriff Arpaio's smear campaign against political opponent by Paul Rubin
• Pariah Joe - Phoenix New Times article on Sheriff Arpaio's improprieties by John Dougherty
• Special Treatment - Phoenix New Times article about special treatment of celebrity prisoners by Sheriff Apraio by John Dougherty
• False Positive - Phoenix New Times article on retaliation at Sheriff Arpaio's jail by Robert Nelson
• Sheriff Joe's Real Estate Game - Phoenix New Times article about Sheriff Arpaio's questionable real estate holdings by John Dougherty
• Little State, Big Problems: Maine’s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley (p 1)
• 63,000 and Counting: Mass Deportations Mostly Go Unnoticed
• Histrionics Lesson - Phoenix New Times article on Public Records suit against Sheriff Arpaio by John Dougherty
• Old Media Access Consent Decrees Violated in Maine by Lance Tapley (p 8)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Massachusetts District Court: FBI Ordered to Pay $101.7 Million for Malicious Prosecution by Michael Rigby (p 10)
• Clarification: (p 12)
• Maryland Prison Audit Reveals Potential Fraud “Undetectable” by Michael Rigby (p 12)
• Florida Supreme Court Enacts Rules Regulating “Super Sealing” of Court Records by David Reutter (p 13)
• Final Report on Ohio Prisoner Reentry Study by G.A. Bowers (p 14)
• Minnesota Sanction for Sex Offender Treatment Refusal Violates Fifth Amendment (p 14)
• “War on Terror” Whistleblowers, Dissenters are Fired, Prosecuted; Plaintiff’s Lawyers Help Turn Them In by Alex Friedmann (p 16)
• Arkansas Prisoner Denied Kosher Diet Awarded $1,500 (p 17)
• Psych Evaluations Questioned Following D.C. Jail Suicides by Matthew Clarke (p 18)
• NY Prisoner Who Crushed Thumb Working at Ski Resort Awarded $40,000 (p 18)
• Illinois Supreme Court Holds Prisoner Medical Co-Payment Fee Can’t Be Deducted From Future Funds by John Dannenberg (p 20)
• California’s Solution To Prison Overcrowding: $7.4 Billion To Build 53,000 New Beds by Marvin Mentor (p 20)
• $14 Million Verdict Against Louisiana DA’s Office for Wrongful Death Sentence (p 22)
• $4 Million Settlement In Rape and Beating Death of Mentally Ill New Jersey Prisoner by Michael Rigby (p 22)
• Fortress Of Solitude: The Bureau Of Prisons Is As Good At Keeping Prisoners In As It Is At Keeping Reporters Out by Alan Prendergast (p 24)
• South Carolina Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $600,000 (p 25)
• Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke (p 26)
• San Mateo County, California, Settles Strip-Search Suit for $1.9 Million (p 26)
• Tenth Circuit Upholds BOP Guard’s Abuse Convictions (p 27)
• GAO Audit: Alien Detention Facilities Suffer Continuing Deficiencies by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• Texas Parole Board Revamps Urinalysis Procedures (p 28)
• Los Angeles County Pays $475,000 In Jail Healthcare Wrongful Death (p 29)
• U.S. Supreme Court: Colorado Prisoner Alleging Injury From Suspension Of Medical Treatment Stated Adequate Claim To Preclude Dismissal by John Dannenberg (p 30)
• Texas Pays $250,000 for Lingering Death of Teen Prisoner by Michael Rigby (p 30)
• Massachusetts Guard Accused of Throwing Feces Entitled to Workman’s Compensation (p 31)
• New Jersey Supreme Court Orders DOC to Codify Prisoner Healthcare Responsibilities by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• $1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter (p 32)
• Confidential Settlement for Alabama Prisoners Killed in Road Work Crew (p 33)
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment Dismissal of Excessive Force Claims (p 33)
• $100 Million In Restitution Fines Collected From California Prisoners Since 1992 (p 34)
• New Law Bars Hawaii Prison Officials from Canceling Visits (p 34)
• Probation Condition Restricting Pets at Residence Held Overbroad (p 34)
• Absence of Parole Revocation Administrative Appeal Process Entitles Prisoner to Trial Court Determination of Custody Credits by John Dannenberg (p 35)
• “Liberal” Pleading Construction Reveals Negligent Guard Theory Claim (p 36)
• BOP May Not Foreclose Transfer to Community Corrections Center Based on Length of Remaining Sentence by John Dannenberg (p 36)
• Findings of Fact by Indiana Disciplinary Panel Not Entitled toPresumption of Correctness for Federal Habeas Purposes by John Dannenberg (p 37)
• Texas Allows Actual Innocence Claim in Non-Capital Habeas Actions (p 38)
• Unsupported Penile Plethysmograph Testing as Condition of Release Rises to Due Process Violation, Creates Liberty Interest (p 38)
• Many Chinese Prisoners Retain Right to Vote (p 39)
• Mere Possibility of Parole Insufficient to Prevent Texas Prisoners’ Parental Rights Termination by Matthew Clarke (p 39)
• Ohio Juvenile Wards Entitled to Attorneys to Pursue 1983 Actions (p 40)
• On Appeal Texas Prisoner Acquitted of Damaging Jail Furnishing (p 40)
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Mississippi Retaliation For Letters to a Newspaper Claim (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Notice of Appeal Deemed Filed When Presented to Prison Officials; Burden on State to Refute (p 44)

September

• Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter (p 1)
• Argentine priest receives life sentence for dirty war crimes committed in 1970-80's by Marie Trigona
• Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery by Brenda Smith
• Crime and Criminals
• Louisiana: The other Jena story
• Houston Jail Has Highest Number of Deaths in Texas: 101 by Gary Hunter (p 9)
• Florida Jails: State’s Largest Mental Health Providers by David Reutter (p 10)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Chains of Love by Siobhan O'Connor (p 12)
• Gannet New Jersey’s Witch Hunt for Public Employees with Criminal Records by Matthew Clarke (p 14)
• Colorado Investigates Former Prison Director for Malfeasance Following State Audit (p 16)
• Sixth Circuit Now Permits § 1983 Complaint to Proceed Even if Prisoner Did Not Initially Plead Exhaustion Below by John Dannenberg (p 17)
• 20 Florida Prison Officials Fired or Suspended After Prisoner Beating, Party by David Reutter (p 18)
• Ohio Lawyer Suspended for Bilking Prisoners’ Families (p 19)
• Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Exhibits Little Change Despite New Contractor by David Reutter (p 20)
• Connecticut Takes Cut of Prisoner Judgments and Inheritances by Matthew Clarke (p 21)
• Texas Must Afford Prisoners Due Process in Trust Fund Garnishment by Matthew Clarke (p 22)
• Florida Homeless Sex Offender Ruling Reversed, FDOC Changes Policy Anyway by David Reutter (p 22)
• Texas Court of Appeals Reverses Termination of Prisoner’s Parental Rights by Matthew Clarke (p 23)
• China Admits Illegally Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners by Gary Hunter (p 24)
• Big Brother Monitoring Michigan Sex Offenders (p 24)
• CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona (p 25)
• U.S. Parole Commission Rules are “Laws” for Ex Post Facto (p 25)
• California Contract Healthcare Management Firm Locked Out; Fees Withheld; by John Dannenberg (p 26)
• Maryland Closes Decrepit, Scandal-Plagued House of Correction (p 26)
• California DOC Finally Discloses Some Records In $4.1 Billion Of Public Contracts by John Dannenberg (p 26)
• Washington’s Criminal Justice System Racially Biased; Voting Rights Act Claim Fails Anyway (p 28)
• § 1983 Suit Challenging New York’s Blanket Parole Denial “Policy” Survives Motion to Dismiss by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• $1,000,000 Award for Attorney’s Failure to Prosecute Prisoner’s Lawsuit (p 29)
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal on Wrong Medication Claims (p 29)
• Pennsylvania DNA Act Not Ex Post Facto (p 30)
• Guards Settle “Sick Building” Claim at Florida Jail for $495,000 (p 30)
• Erroneous Jury Instruction Nets Raped Missouri Prisoner New Civil Trial (p 30)
• New Investigative Solution by LexisTracks Sex Offenders, Wherever They Are (p 31)
• Forced Work in Dangerous Washington Prison Job Conditions States Eighth Amendment Claim by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• Illinois Parole Board Pays Nearly $11,000 in Attorney Fees, Can Only Charge Reasonable Postage and Copying Costs (p 32)
• CCA Fined for Florida Jail Escape; County Commission Poised to Impose More Fines (p 33)
• Bivens Claims Against Private Prison Employees May Fail When Other Remedies Available (p 34)
• California: Disciplinary Conviction Upheld Where Petitioner Argued Only Violation of Constitutional Rights, Not State Law Rights by John Dannenberg (p 34)
• Fulton County Jail Consents to Improve Dismal Conditions by David Reutter (p 36)
• California Sexual Predator Commitment Requires Trial; Cannot be Based on Civil Discovery Admissions (p 36)
• Collection-Rate of Appellate Costs Taxed to Prisoner Reduced to Rate for PLRA Filing-Fees by John Dannenberg (p 37)
• Direct Contempt of U.S. Court Must Be in Court’s Presence; Conviction Reversed (p 38)
• Evidentiary Hearing Ordered For AEDPA Equitable Tolling Claim Arising From Transfer to Out-Of-State Prison (p 38)
• Refusal to Give Nitro Tablets to Prisoner With Chest Pain Actionable by Matthew Clarke (p 39)
• Nevada Psychological Review Panel Hearings Subjected to Open Meeting and Constitutional Due Process Requirements by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• Wisconsin Over Detention Suit Not Barred by Rooker-Feldman Doctrine (p 41)
• No Qualified Immunity for Ignoring Heart Condition Leading to Prisoner’s Death (p 42)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• O.K. to Ban Suspicious Indiana Sex Offender from Parks (p 44)

August

• Prisons as Incubators and Spreaders of Disease and Illness by John Dannenberg (p 1)
• U.S. Surgeon General Pressured to Avoid Addressing Prison Health Care (p 6)
• TB Prevention and Control In Prisons and Jails: New CDC Guidelines by John Dannenberg (p 9)
• We’ll Lock Up Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free by Amy Goodman (p 10)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 12)
• Prison Privatization Launders Taxpayer Dollars into Political Contributions by David Reutter (p 13)
• Minnesota Prison Industries Managers Ride High on Prison Slavery by David Reutter (p 18)
• UN Committee Against Torture Wants Guantanamo Closed (p 20)
• $2,500 Settlement in False Report of Oregon Prisoner’s Death (p 21)
• Due Process Required Before Termination from Colorado Sex Offender Treatment Program by Bob Williams (p 22)
• BJS Reports Death Penalty Trends In 2005 by Michael Rigby (p 23)
• Prior Drug Use Stable Among State Prisoners, Rises For Federal Prisoners by Matthew Clarke (p 24)
• Accuracy of Sex Offender Registries Questioned By GAO by Matthew Clarke (p 24)
• Florida Prison Nurses Net $1 Million for Sexual Harassment by Prisoners (p 26)
• “State Secrets Privilege” Forecloses CIA-Detainee’s Kidnapping and Torture Suit by John Dannenberg (p 26)
• Rhode Island Pays $120,000 To Prisoner Forced To Eat Feces by Michael Rigby (p 28)
• $140,000 Settlement in Death of Asthmatic Texas Prisoner by Michael Rigby (p 28)
• $1.2 Million Compensation Package Approved For Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Man (p 29)
• Monterey County Grand Jury Report Blasts Two California Prisons by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• Connecticut: Victims’ Privacy Protection Saves Some Sex Offenders From Public Registration by John Dannenberg (p 30)
• New Orleans Prisoners Work on Judge’s House (p 31)
• United States Sues Georgia County Jail over Unconstitutional Medical and Living Conditions by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• Civil Grand Jury Calls San Mateo County Women’s Jail a “Crowded Disgrace” (p 32)
• An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners (p 33)
• Columbus, Ohio Jail’s Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March (p 34)
• A Voice From Guantanamo’s Darkness by Jumah al-Dossari (p 34)
• BJS Report: The Price of Justice in 2003 by Michael Rigby (p 35)
• Prison A Major Factor In Spreading AIDS by Gary Hunter (p 36)
• Wrongfully Imprisoned California Man Awarded $18 Million (p 36)
• New York Prisoner Awarded $190,000 For Improperly Treated Knee Injury (p 37)
• Quadriplegic California Prisoner Baked to Death in Transport Van (p 38)
• Six Florida Federal Prison Guards Convicted, Sentenced On Rape and Corruption Charges by Matthew Clarke (p 38)
• Shackling at California Jury Trial, Without Justifying Need, Is Reversible Error (p 39)
• Texas Prison System Faces Critical Guard Shortage by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• Torture vs Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment -- Is the Distinction Real or Apparent?, by Metin Basoglu, MD, PhD et al., by John Dannenberg (p 41)
• Illinois Jail Prisoner Dies from Dental Infection (p 41)
• Breaking the Prison Habit by Mumia Abu-Jamal (p 42)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• New York Discharge-Planning: The Term “City Jail” Includes Mental Health “Forensic Units” (p 44)

July

• Clergyman to Stand Trial for "Dirty War" Crimes in Argentina
• A RE-BIRTH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION: USING THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT TO OVERCOME SECTION 1983 HURDLES AND HOLD GOVERNMENT AND POLICE ACCOUNTABLE
• The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill by David C Fathi (p 1)
• Government Segregates Muslim Prisoners Restricts Phone Calls and Visits
• $27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail (p 7)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 8)
• Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement by David Reutter (p 8)
• Delaware DOC Still Defends Abysmal Medical Care, Prisoners Still Die From Medical Neglect (p 10)
• Florida Boot Camp Death Results in Manslaughter Charges Against 7 Guards and Nurse; Civil Claims Settled for $7,425,000 (p 11)
• Colorado Settles Class Action Prison Disability Discrimination Suit For Over $3 Million (p 12)
• BOP Settles “Terrorism” Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000 (p 14)
• Washington State’s Federal Oversight of Sexually Violent Predators Ended by John Dannenberg (p 15)
• $13,655,940 Award For False Massachusetts Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke (p 16)
• Seminole County Jail Settles Strip Search Suits; Judge Removed From Bench (p 16)
• Arkansas Ups Work-Release Fees to Pay for Guard-Drivers (p 17)
• North Carolina Women Prisoners Work Call/Bulk Mail Centers For Slave Wages (p 18)
• Texas County Jail Settles Sex Assault Suits For Undisclosed Sum (p 18)
• Prison Skin-Art Pared From Canadian Budget by Gary Hunter (p 18)
• California Ban On Hardcover Books Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg (p 19)
• Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000 by John Dannenberg (p 20)
• Florida Newspaper Revokes Permission to Post Article Critical of Judge (p 20)
• Florida Eliminates DNA Testing Deadline (p 20)
• $5 Million Jury Award Against Doctor in Death of Michigan Prisoner (p 21)
• Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses by Gary Hunter (p 21)
• California Lifers’ Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts by Marvin Mentor (p 22)
• MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105 (p 22)
• Move From Texas Legislator To Lobbyist Poses Ethical Question by Gary Hunter (p 23)
• Drunk PA DOC Attorney Charged in Hit-and-Run (p 24)
• Satellite Surveillance Approved For Wisconsin Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter (p 24)
• Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard by G.A. Bowers (p 26)
• Louisville, Kentucky, Settles with Wrongly Imprisoned Man for $3.9 Million (p 27)
• Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California’s Sex Offenders’ Housing Banishment Law by John Dannenberg (p 27)
• More Settlements and Verdicts in New Hampshire False Disciplinary Charge Case (p 28)
• $9,063,000 Jury Award For Illinois False Rape Conviction by Matthew Clarke (p 28)
• Arizona Enacts Three Strikes Law, Again (p 29)
• Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards’ “Code-Of-Silence” Ruling (p 29)
• Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000 (p 30)
• Los Angeles County Pays Informant $80,000 For Failed Witness Protection (p 30)
• New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker’s Prisoner For $40,000 (p 30)
• San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies by John Dannenberg (p 30)
• $30,000 Settlement For Woman Raped By Missouri Jail Prisoner (p 31)
• $90,000 Awarded for Broken Hand During NY Prison Job Assignment by David Reutter (p 32)
• Governor’s Task Force Recommends Changes in Florida’s Prison System Mission (p 32)
• Michigan Prisoner Boycotts Rape Trial, Still Acquitted (p 33)
• California DOC Chief Health Care Official Ousted (p 33)
• Pennsylvania DOC Settles Religious Dietary Suit (p 34)
• $2 Million Settlement in Montgomery County, NY Strip Search Suit (p 34)
• Oklahoma Escapee Who Fled With Warden’s Wife Sentenced to Maximum, Then Dies (p 34)
• Escape From TransCor Van Not a Crime in Montana (p 35)
• Policy of Hiring Trained Medical Professionals Does Not Immunize County from Municipal Liability in Wrongful Jail Death; Case Settles for $475,000.00 by John Dannenberg (p 36)
• Retroactive Application of Missouri Sex Offender Registration Law Banned (p 36)
• Washington Supreme Court Reverses Parole Denial (p 37)
• Fifth Circuit: No FLSA Minimum Wage for Texas Prisoners (p 38)
• California Prisoner Permitted to Challenge Oppressive Prison Conditions Absent Physical Injury; Ruling Later Voided by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• Illinois Administrative Remedies Exhausted When Prison Officials Lost Grievance (p 39)
• Tennessee Parole Rules-Changes as Applied to Old Lifer May Violate Ex Post Facto (p 40)
• Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas Sex Offender Registration/Residency Restrictions by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• Texas Court Ordered to Accept Prisoners’ Correspondence (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Federal Court Awards Illinois Prisoner $7,116 in Fees, Costs by Michael Rigby (p 44)

June

• $225,000 Settlement in Rape of Female New York Prisoner by Guard
• $2.25 Million Award for Virginia Man Falsely Sent to Death Row
• Massachussetts Pre-Trial Detainee Injured While Housed With Convicted Felons States Colorable Claim
• Corporate Prison Boom, Immigration, And The Law
• Prison Food Law
• The Political Economy of Prison and Jail Litigation by Margo Schlanger (p 1)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 12)
• Florida’s Broward County Jail: Abuse and Misconduct As Usual by David Reutter (p 12)
• Suicides Plague Wisconsin Jails; Attempted Suicide Suit Settles for $13.1 Million by Matthew Clarke (p 14)
• Dr. Yank: Washington Prison Dentist Nearly Kills Patient (p 16)
• Landmark Settlement Reduces SHU Time, Increases Treatment Of New York Prisoners With Mental Illness (p 17)
• Maryland Restores Voting Rights to 50,000 Felons (p 19)
• Missouri Legislature Allows Wrongfully Convicted to Receive Compensation (p 20)
• Supreme Court: California’s Law Permitting Suspicionless Police Search of Parolees Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Marvin Mentor (p 20)
• Increasingly Repressive Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Have Doubtful Benefits by John Dannenberg (p 21)
• Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff’s Policy Delaying Prisoners’ Elective Abortions Enjoined by John Dannenberg (p 22)
• Alaska Jail Settles Alcohol Withdrawal Death Case For $573,000 (p 22)
• Colorado Successfully Pressures FBI To Release DNA Info; Racial Bias Infects DNA Databases by Gary Hunter (p 23)
• Disallowing Printed E-Mail Responses To Wisconsin Prisoner’s Web Page Raised Triable Issues of Fact by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Guards Convicted of Stealing, Bringing Drugs into Washington State Private Jail by Matthew Clarke (p 24)
• Lifetime Supervision or Lifetime Incarceration for Colorado Sex Offenders? (p 26)
• BOP Cancels Solicitation of Proposal for Single-Faith Program (p 26)
• Louisiana Prisoner Denied Religious Materials Under “Approved Vendor” Policy Settles Suit for $21, 786.13 in Damages and Fees (p 27)
• Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don’t Reduce Recidivism by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• California Sheriff Criticized on Injury Non-Treatment After Use of Force (p 29)
• South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Fall, Broken Ankle (p 30)
• Human Rights Watch Urges Access to Condoms in U.S. Prisons and Jails (p 30)
• $30,000 Award in Hawaii Medical Negligence Suit (p 32)
• Private Prison Companies Bilk Florida Taxpayers Out of Millions by David Reutter (p 32)
• Florida Court Without Jurisdiction to Impose Confinement Condition Sanctions at Sentencing (p 33)
• Los Angeles County Jail Visitor’s Injury After Scuffle With Deputies Settles For $150,000 (p 33)
• Excessive Force And Medical Negligence Death In Youngstown, Ohio Arrest Settles For $350,000 From Police, $100,000 From PHS by John Dannenberg (p 34)
• City of Detroit Must Record Suspect Confessions; $4 Million Wrongful Incarceration Award (p 34)
• $248,000 Jury Award for Inhumane D.C. Jail Conditions (p 35)
• U.S. Supreme Court: State Felon’s Deportation Order Reversed Where Underlying Offense Amounted Only to Federal Misdemeanor (p 35)
• Fifth Circuit Remands Texas Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim, Adopts De Minimis Standard by Michael Rigby (p 36)
• Harsh Federal Parole Conditions for Federal Sex Offender Upheld (p 36)
• Second Hawaii Sex Assault Case Settled for $25,000 (p 37)
• California Prison Guards Awarded $440 Million Retroactive Pay Increase (p 37)
• $2.5 Million Settlement in Schenectady County Strip Search Suit (p 38)
• California Governor’s Parole Veto Reversed by Federal Court by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• New York Jail’s Juvenile Education Suit Returns to District Court (p 39)
• Federal Prisoner’s Criminal Assault Conviction Reversed; Entitled to Raise Self-Defense (p 40)
• Ninth Circuit: Prisoner is Protected by Legal Privilege but Not Marriage Privilege When Writing His Lawyer-Wife (p 40)
• New York Prisoner Beaten By Unofficial Enforcer Awarded $500,000 (p 41)
• Washington Indigents All Get Experts at Public Expense (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Alaska DOC Liable for Rape of Federal Prisoner by Prison Doctor (p 44)

May

• Spoliation of Evidence May Imply Liability
• Washington DOC Pays $40,000 in Chair Collapse
• Challenges to Systematic Prison Disciplinary Procedures Cognizable Under § 1983
• Court Upholds Denial of Jail Credit to Parole Violator
• Denial of Motion to Dismiss Not Appealable
• Successive Injunctions Allowed Under PLRA
• Heck Bars §1983 Relief for Michigan Prisoner Assaulted by Guard
• Oregon Prisoner Has Right to Medication
• Attorney Awarded $1.50 in Fees in Nominal Damages Case
• No Judicial Review or Order Required for Prison Censorship
• Virgin Island Prison Officials Held in Contempt for Failing to Comply with Conditions of Confinement Orders
• BOP Prisoner Had Right to Duress Defense
• Expert Testimony Required in Medical Claims
• Additional Evidence in New York Medical Claim Allowed in Part
• City Can Limit Vermont State Prison Population
• Evidentiary Hearing Required Before PLRA Termination of Consent Decree
• Louisiana Sheriff Denied Qualified Immunity in Detainee's Suicide
• California Supreme Court Holds Prisoners' Legal Mail Confidential
• Sixth Circuit Remands Hadix For Termination on Hearing
• Wisconsin Prisoner Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies Before Filing Suit
• Illinois Prisoner Has No Liberty Interest in Personal Property
• Fired Guard Eligible for Unemployment Benefits
• Malicious and Sadistic Use of Force States Claim
• Balisok Doesn't Bar Excessive Force Claims
• Pre-operative Transsexual "Deliberate Indifference" Claims Set for Trial
• PLRA Doesn't Apply to Mental Patients
• No Temporary Injunction Before Conviction Under Florida Son of Sam Statute
• Florida Son of Sam Law Upheld
• New York Prisoner Has Right to Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearing
• Sheriff's Delay Or Denial Of Detainee's Serious Medical Needs Ruled Sufficient To Defeat Summary Judgment Motion
• Extra Protection Provided Under Florida Disciplinary Rules
• Jail to Prison Transfer Orders Subject to PLRA Provisions
• Illinois Prisoner Not Entitled to Two Types of Good Time Together
• New York Incarceration Alone Not Grounds to Deny Visits with Children
• Loss of Prisoner's Dentures and Heart Medication Valid Claims
• District Court Partly Upholds Prisoner's Excessive Force, Medical Negligence Claims
• New York Prisoner Has No Right to Sue Over being Placed in Protective Confinement
• Prisoner's Out-of-Time Medical Neglect Lawsuit Allowed to Proceed
• Pennsylvania Prisoners Counted as Residents of States in Which Prison Is Located
• Jail/Police Immune for Not Treating Prisoner with Spinal Injury
• Portion of Ruiz Appeal Vacated
• Ruiz Attorney Fees Approved; State Fees Cap Invalid
• $98,500 Settlement In Jail Negligence Suit Prisoner Beating
• $200,000 Awarded to Prison Nurse for Wrongful Termination
• Modification to Ruiz Stipulation Not Abuse of Discretion
• Aryan Brotherhood Prison Killing Appeals
• Damage Judgment Against Indiana Warden Vacated
• Fifth Circuit Refuses to Order Court to Rule on Ruiz Termination
• Prisoners Receive Damages for Beatings
• Tenth Circuit Holds COA Required on All State Habeas Appeals
• D.C. Prison Conditions Violate Eighth Amendment Rights
• Prison Transfer Claims Must Be Raised Under § 1983
• Education Administrator Appointment Vacated and Remanded
• No Immunity for DOC Under Rehabilitation Act or ADA
• Relief Ordered For Overcrowded D.C. Prison
• Court Orders Appointment of Education Administrator in Michigan Discrimination Case
• New York Jail Conditions Found Unconstitutional, Remanded for Remedy
• Court Appoints Monitor to Oversee Michigan Prison Implementation
• Legal Mail Claim Requires Hearing & Due Process
• Educational Administrator Appointment Ordered in Michigan Discrimination Case
• Delay in Providing Surgery to Florida Prisoner States a Claim
• $1.75 Million Awarded In Ex Prison Guard Sexual Harassment Suit
• Texas Prison System Declared Unconstitutional; Reforms Ordered
• Appeal Affirmed in Unconstitutional New York Jail Conditions of Confinement
• Confiscation of Legal Files Excused Failure to Exhaust
• $130,000 Settlement In Prison Employee Harassment Suit
• Wyoming Prison Not Liable in Guard's Death
• Fifth Circuit Holds PLRA Automatic Stay Provision Constitutional
• Refusal to Treat Tooth Cavity States §1983 Claim
• Fugitive Disentitlement Rule
• $500 Award in Sing Sing Medical Neglect Suit
• Prison Officials' Request for Stay Denied
• Texas Granted Second Partial Stay In Class-Action Suit
• Sanctions Ordered Against Michigan Prison
• § 2241 Habeas Corpus Okay for Parolee's Bail Release
• Probationer Waives Right to Counsel
• Court Of Appeals Overturns Prison Population Cap in DC Case
• Texas Granted Only Partial Stay In Class-Action Suit
• AEDPA Time Limit Runs from Date of Hearing, Tolled During Exhaustion
• Sixth Circuit Upholds $54,750 ETS Damage Award
• Government Estopped From Re-arresting Wrongfully Paroled Prisoner
• Weekends and Holidays Excluded from FRCP 6(a) 10-Day Deadline
• Interpreters Provided For MD Deaf Prisoners in Consent Decree
• $2,632 Paid in WA Riot Caused Damages
• Tear Gassing of VA Prisoner Requires Trial
• Over Detention Claim Must Show Knowledge or Failure to Act on Problem
• $450 Award in Prisoner Wrongful Keeplock Suit
• Expert Witness Fees Allowed Under ADA and RA
• Kansas Open Records Act Requires DOC to Disclose Parolee Info To Public
• 15 Months Administrative Segregation Not Atypical and Significant Hardship
• Intermediate State Appellate Court Ruling Fails to Override Qualified Immunity Defense in Over-Detention Suit
• MI Court Holds RLUIPA Constitutional
• PLRA Requires Prisoner 1983 Complaints to Plead Administrative Exhaustion
• Washington Prisoner Receives $17,500 for Work Detail Needle Stick
• No Qualified Immunity for Guards Who Seized Prisoner's Legal Papers
• $4,435 Paid in WA Riot Injuries
• Sweat Patch Drug Test Admissible at BOP Parole Revocation Hearing
• Miscalculation of Sentence Defeats Summary Judgment
• $500 Paid in WA Racial Segregation Suit
• Survivors Win $1,825,000 in Wisconsin Prisoner Suicide Suit
• Use of Chemical Agents Not Per Se Unconstitutional
• Iowa Sued Over Proselytizing Fundamentalist Christian Prison Program by Matthew T. Clarke
• Nine Month Delay in Bringing Mississippi Detainee Before Court Defeats Qualified Immunity
• Jail Grievance Procedure Not Available to New York State Prisoner
• Illegal Strip Searches During Minor Charges Net Sacramento Jail Detainees $1,000 Each by John E Dannenberg
• $279,000 Harassment Award Upheld in Missouri Nurses' Suit
• Supreme Court: Aliens Can Be Held Without Bail Pending Deportation
• Police Officer May Be Liable for Failing to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence to Prosecutor
• Sending State Must Provide Transferred Prisoner Legal Assistance
• Washington DOC Settles Stroke Suit for $111,000
• Diabetic Prisoner Entitled to Special Diet
• Florida Jail Detainee Entitled to Clean Cell, Medical Diet
• Social Security Claimant Entitled to Attorney Fee Award
• No Immediate Appeals for Injunction Clarifications
• Washington DOC Pays $10,500 in Slip and Fall
• District Court Approves Victim Impact Evidence in Death Penalty Cases
• Abstention Doctrine Discussed
• Denial of Good Conduct Credit Ex Post Facto
• Florida Good Time Law Applied
• Court Upholds Mistreating Prisoners For Practice
• Directed Verdict of Prisoner's Failure to Treat Medical Need Claim Reversed
• Dismissed §1983 First Amendment Claim Vacated and Remanded in Part
• Denial of Orthopedic Shoes for 21 Months Defeats Summary Judgment
• Colorado Upholds 100 Years-to-Life for Sex Offender Under New Lifetime Act
• $70,000 Jail Medical Neglect Death Award Upheld
• Disciplinary Hearing Witness Cannot be Denied Because of Prisoner's Race
• No Liability for Jail Bunk Assignment Policy
• Closure of Pennsylvania Prison Legal Clinic Enjoined
• Prison Disciplinary Issues Must Be Raised in Administrative Appeal by Jon Michael Withrow
• WA DOC Must Award Good Time for Out-Of-State Time Served Concurrently With WA Sentences
• Court Not Obligated to Pay Indigent Prisoner's Witness Fees
• 8th Circuit Upholds Minnesota Law Requiring Registration For Non-Sexual Offenses
• Eighth Circuit Denies Police Board Sovereign Immunity; Upholds ADA/RA Damages
• Dismissal of Oregon Guard's Disability Claim Reversed
• Denial of Class Certification in Pennsylvania Conditions Suit Reversed
• Damage Award for Restriction on Political Speech Upheld
• Arizona Internet Ban Permanently Enjoined by John E Dannenberg
• Dismissal Denied in Suit Against Alabama Sheriff and County in Detainee's Death From Lack of Medical
• Retaliation for Litigation, Grievances States Claim
• $9,000 Jury Award Against Missouri: Religious Halfway House
• Dismissal of Jail Overcrowding Suit Affirmed on Appeal
• § 1983 Suit Improper Remedy for Good Time Loss
• Minimum Wage Provisions Apply to Prisoners Employed by Community College
• Florida DOC Clamps Down on Prisoner Writers by David Reutter
• Doctor Granted Qualified Immunity in Texas Prisoner's Suicide
• Dismissal of Tennessee Prisoner's Petition for Failure to Prosecute Reversed
• California Prisoner Committed to State Hospital Beats Battery Charge Because He Was Not "Confined in
• Dismissal for Failure to Exhaust Reversed
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Beaten Louisiana Prisoner's $1.5 Million Jury Award
• Criminal Restitution Order Non-Dischargeable Through Bankruptcy
• Consent Decree Modification Standard
• Bivens Action Legitimate For Deceased Prisoner's Mother To Pursue Damages
• BOP Application for Kosher Diet Constitutional.
• Absent Actual Injury Only Nominal Damages for Due Process Violations
• Appeals Court Vacates, Remands Dismissal of Prisoner's Property Action
• CA Detainees Not Entitled to One-for-One Credits
• Federal Officials Subject to Suit for Damages
• Duress Defense Unavailable to Prisoner Volunteering Assistance to Help Another Escape
• 37 Days Disciplinary Segregation Without Hearings Not Atypical and Significant Hardship
• County Officials Not Liable in Prisoner' Beating by Fellow Prisoner
• Escape Statute Encompasses Man's Departure From Courtroom Over Judge's Orders
• Failure to Reattach Severed Ear States Cause of Action
• Arbitrator Cannot Override Rhode Island DOC Director's Discipline of Guard
• Body Cavity Searches Reasonable and Unreasonable
• Sanction Imposed on Illinois Jail Defendant's Counsel
• Executing Prisoner Who Regained Competency Does Not Violate His Rights
• Claim of Juror Alcohol Use Does Not Warrant Evidentiary Hearing
• Eighth Circuit: Certain Prisoners Not Entitled to Religious Meals
• Adequate Facts Must be Stated in 1983 Legal Mail Claim
• Fifth Circuit: Federal DNA Act Constitutional
• Cincinnati's Ban on Travel in "Drug Exclusion Zones" Struck Down
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Summary Judgment of Texas Prisoners' Religious Challenge
• Attorney Fees Awarded in Partial Victory Gained By Order Setting Forth Settlement
• Beating by Guards, Destroyed Eyeglasses May Toll AEDPA Time Limit
• Attorney Fees Not Reducible for Failure to Win on All Issues
• California Criminal Defendant Must Make Preliminary Showing of Exculpatory Evidence in Police File
• Drug Site Cleanup Fine Discretionary with Trial Court
• Backsliding Not Proof of Religious Insincerity
• Fifth Amendment Not Violated By New Hampshire Sex Offender Program
• California Granted Immunity in Parolee Wrongful Death Suit
• Attorney Sanctioned For Unreasonably, Vexatiously Prolonging Litigation
• Abuse of Discretion in Failing to Grant Prisoner Continuance in §1983 Action
• Attorney Fees as Catalyst for Change Certified to California Supreme Court
• Equitable Tolling of AEDPA's Limitations if Extraordinary Circumstances Exist
• Federal Prisoner Possible Beneficiary in BOP/County Contract
• Witness Protection Program Prisoners Double Celled
• Parkway Not Proper Place for Body Cavity Search
• New York Prisoner Awarded $26,500 For Fall From Top Bunk
• NV Jail Commissioners Liable For Raped Prisoner
• Nominal Damages Upheld in Excessive Force Case
• New Mexico: No Due Process Violation in Hearing by Phone
• FL Prisoner Can Seek Belated Appeal of Administrative Appeal Denial
• Dismissal of Federal Habeas Claim Over Living Conditions Reversed
• Failure to Administer Doctor's Treatment Plan States Eighth Amendment Claim
• Ohio Prisoners' Mail-Order Subscription Suit Held Not Frivolous
• Illinois Prisoner Awarded $34,500 For Delayed Release
• No Right To Notification Within 30 Days Of Disciplinary Appeal
• Dismissal Reversed Where Record Unclear on Administrative Remedy Exhaustion
• Denial of AIDS Cocktail: Actionable in Tacoma Jail Suit
• Due Process Action States Claim
• Denial of Compensation to Unemployed Prisoner Doesn't Violate Constitution
• Federal Filed Rate Doctrine Preempts State Action Challenging Prisoner Phone Rates
• Dismissal Without Prejudice to Amend Requires Final Judgment if Amendment Not Filed to Invoke Appellate Jurisdiction
• Federal Probationer Not Required To Give DNA For Prior Conviction
• Diabetic ND Prisoner's Forced Medical Treatment Upheld
• Hunger Striking GA Prisoner Has Right to Privacy to Refuse Forced Feeding.
• Hunger Striking NY Prisoner May Be Force Fed to Prevent Suicide
• Evidentiary Hearing Not Required To Terminate SSA Worker Disability Benefits
• Gender is not BFOQ for Georgia Deputy Sheriff Job
• Garnishment of Prisoner's Wages not Actionable in State Court
• Municipalities and Local Officials "Persons" Under § 1983
• Housing Death Row Prisoner in Segregation Cell Constitutional
• Massachusetts Good Time Deducted From Parole Eligibility Date
• Iowa Ban on Racist Literature Enjoined
• New York: Prison Failed To Follow Up Cancer Treatment, Prisoner Awarded $210,000
• $277 Awarded for Costs in Washington Records Disclosure Suit
• Supreme Court Holds Double Celling Not Unconstitutionally Cruel and Unusual
• Imminent Danger Exception to PLRA Three Strikes
• District Court Denies Physician's Assistant's Motion to Dismiss
• Parolee has Right to Confront Witnesses of Denied Violations Despite Admitting Other Violations
• Federal Parolee Not Entitled To Immediate Revocation Hearing
• Placing Prisoner on Modified Grievance Access Held Constitutional Under Circumstances
• Pending Grievance Does Not Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement
• Prisoner Stated Claim Due Process, Conditions Of Confinement Suit
• Prisoners Have No Right to Boot Camp
• Qualified Immunity Discussed in Texas Over Detention Suit
• Prison Disciplinary Conviction Creates Property Interest
• Qualified Immunity to Prison Guard in Prisoner Shooting
• Washington Appeals Court Affirms Right to Witnesses in Pee Shy Disciplinary Case
• Untimely Grievance Not Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
• Tear Gassing of VA Prisoner Requires Trial
• Total Ban on Mail Violates First and Fourteenth Amendments
• Test For Chemical Agents Use On Prisoners Discussed
• Prisoner Stated Civil Rights Claim but not RICO Claim
• Trial In Jail Clothes Unconstitutional Only if Objection Raised
• Sending State Must Provide Transferred Prisoner Legal Assistance
• Summary Judgment Improper, Proof of State-Enforced "Custom" States Claim
• Pennsylvania: $5,442,000 Award For Failure To Treat Ruptured Spleen
• Prisoner's Medical Claim not Winnable Without Expert Testimony
• U.S. Supreme Court Backward-Looking Court Access Suit Must State Underlying Claim
• U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Constitutionality of "Evidentiary Privilege" Rule
• Use of Deadly Force Subject To Fourth Amendment Reasonableness Standard
• Prison Can Deduct All Wages from Prisoner to Satisfy Debt
• Prisoners Entitled To Court Access, Can't Be Forced To Work if Disabled
• Prison's Spending Cap Policy May State First Amendment Claim
• Summary Judgment Against Sexually Assaulted Prisoner Denied in Part
• Texas Parole Revocation Must be Challenged Via Habeas
• Statutes Permitting Repossession Without Hearing Violated Due Process
• Qualified Immunity Denial Upheld in Jewish Prisoner's Religious Freedom Claim
• Polygraph Results Admissible In Disciplinary Hearings But Additional Evidence Required
• Rhode Island DOC May Be Liable for Virginia's Treatment of Prisoners
• Summary Judgment Vacated and Remanded in Part on Religious Free Exercise Claim
• Seclusion Order for Civil Detainees Cannot be for Punishment Unless Alternatives Fail
• PLRA Applies to Private Prisons
• Shackling Prisoner Witnesses at Trial Discussed
• Shocks the Conscience" Standard Incorrect for First Amendment Claims
• Parolee Negligent Supervision DUI Death Suit Settles for $6,000
• Cell Search Ordered By Prosecutor Actionable Under Fourth Amendment
• Waiver of Right to Sue Questioned in Prisoner's §1983 Claim
• Failure to Administer Medication as Prescribed not Actionable
• Colorado District Court Refuses to Dismiss Probationer's §1983 Suit
• WA Racial Segregation Suit Settled for $500 and Transfer
• Mississippi Prison and Jail Officials Immune From Medical Neglect Suits
• Due Process Required in BOP "Special Offenders" Classification
• Connecticut Prisoner's Suit Reopened
• Separate Religious Accommodations for N.Y. Shi'a Muslim Prisoner Order
• New Jersey Statute Barring Prisoner Lawsuits Struck Down
• Guard's Drug Test Constitutional
• Religious Name Changes Required To Follow State Procedure
• No Compensation Due to Owners on IOLTA Funds' Interest Transfers
• "Some Evidence" Standard Applied to Consider CA Prisoners Classification.
• Conditions of Confinement in Virgin Islands Prison Unconstitutional.
• Jail Officials Not Deliberately Indifferent in Prisoner's Beating
• CA Sheriff Must Advise Trusty Status Prisoners of Honor Camp Ineligibility Policy
• Intentional Destruction of Evidence Requires Sanction
• Court May Not Force Attorneys to Represent Indigent Litigants
• Prisoner Entitled To Discovery In Opposing SJ
• California: Good-Time Statute Not Violative of Ex Post Facto
• Illinois Court Without Authority to Withhold Prisoner's Income
• SJ for Guard in Prisoner's Rape Suit Improper
• Washington Gift Publication Ban Unconstitutional
• Settlements Are Public Records in California
• Removal of Property to Separate Legal and Non-Legal Materials Approved
• Hunger Striking NH Prisoner Can Be Force Fed
• Dismissal for Local Rule Violation Reversed in OK Jail Beating
• Connecticut Police Officers' Liability in Beating Handcuffed Arrestee Generally Upheld
• Pennsylvania Prisoner's Disciplinary Actions Held Not Retaliation for Jailhouse Lawyering
• Dismissal of Suit Against Alabama County for Juvenile Suicide Reversed
• No Liberty Interest for N.Y. Prisoner to Remain in Shock Incarceration Program
• Imprisoned Idaho Prison Guard Settles Jail Suit in Exchange For Surgery
• Oklahoma Prisoner's Eighth Amendment Diet Claims Frivolous
• Use of Force While Prisoner Restrained Defeats Summary Judgment
• Early Release Prospect Does Not Transform § 1983 into § 2254
• Bad Faith Allegation Not Required in 1983 Action
• Need for New Prosthesis is Serious Medical Need
• $500 Paid in Refusal to Call Witness in WA DOC Hearing.
• Government Officials Entitled to Qualified Immunity
• PLRA Exhaustion Requirement Applies to Montana Prisoners in Private Prisons
• Texas Prisoner Denied Habeas Corpus Relief on Probation Violation
• KY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Visitation
• INS Detainee Entitled to Wolff Protections in Disciplinary Action
• FOIA Fee Waiver Provision Discussed
• Idaho: Prison Regulation Provided Fair Notice of Prohibited Behavior
• BOP Must Obey Judge's Sentencing Order
• Insane Prisoner Cannot Be Executed
• Iowa Prisoner Entitled to Due Process in Seizure of Money
• Guards Not Liable For Deadly Force to Quell Riot
• Kansas: Habeas Corpus Proper Avenue for Prisoner Mistreatment Allegations
• Florida Reporter Criminally Charged for Receiving Written Communication from Prisoner
• Mandatory Language in Montana Parole Statute Creates Liberty Interest
• MA DOC Violated Prisoner's Right to Freedom of Expression
• CA Prisoner Entitled to Due Process Hearing Before SHU Classification Change
• 636(b)(1)(B) Authorizes Nonconsensual Referral To Magistrate
• Montana Parole Statute Creates Liberty Interest
• Summary Judgment Precluded By Fact Issues in Jail Killing
• $750 Award in Prison Failure to Protect Prisoner Suit
• Lack of Economic Means Does Not Justify Failure to Exhaust State Remedies
• Heck Rule Fails to Prevent Parolee From Filing Under § 1983
• N.Y. Detainee Rights Upheld Under Due Process
• Michigan: Relevant Documents Must Be Provided in Disciplinary Action
• Idaho: Imprisonment Warrants Suspension of Child Support Payments
• Psychological Evaluation and Consent to Release Required for Hepatitis C Treatment
• Iowa Jail Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional
• CA. Petitioner Entitled to Fees and Cost of Successful Records Claim
• Mandamus Appropriate in MO Ad Seg Case
• Minnesota: No Immunity in Pregnant Detainee's Deliberate Indifference Suit
• Injunction Issued Against Proposed New Mexico DOC Staffing Reductions
• Highest Texas Court Rules Actual Innocence Trumps Guilty Plea
• BOP Visit Rules Do Not Create Liberty Interest; Spouse May Sign Documents on Behalf of a Spouse
• Prisons Can't Ban Gay Literature; Pedophile Magazine Ban Upheld
• Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable
• Retroactive Application of Rule Taking Street Time Valid
• Third-Party Book Seller's Records Subject to Constitutional Protections
• No Actual Injury Requirement in Right to Counsel Challenges
• No SJ for Police Who Injured State Prisoner
• New York: Summary Judgment of Pregnancy-Related Deliberate Indifference Claim Reversed
• New York: Disciplinary Report's Erroneous Date Warrants Expungement of Charges
• No Liberty Interest in the Expectation of Parole
• Sex Offenders Can Be Excluded From Work Release Program
• Public Employee Granted Access to Information in Personnel File
• First Circuit: Win on Plaintiff's Core Claims Merits Attorney Fees
• Ohio State Prisoner Denied Visit with Ex-Guard
• Sixth Circuit: United States Not Liable in Prisoner's Murder
• Prison Disciplinary Board Members Not Entitled to Absolute Immunity
• No State-Paid Attorneys for Post-conviction Relief in Capital Cases
• Florida Felon Disenfranchisement Found Constitutional
• Retaliation for Prisoner's Political Views States §1983 Claim
• Prison's Restrictive Policies Violate Rights of Prisoners in Protective Custody
• Prisoner's Failure to Appear Not Grounds for Civil Suit Dismissal
• Norris-LaGuardia Act Trumps State Common Law
• No Per Se Application of Fugitive From Justice Rule
• Summary Judgment of Eighth Amendment Claims Reversed
• PLRA Requires Exhaustion of "All Available" Remedies
• PI Orders Inspection of Iowa Juvenile Mental Facility and Records
• Some VA Death Row Prisoners Denied Meaningful Access to Courts
• Path Cleared For Construction of Private Pennsylvania Prison
• No SJ in § 1983 Claim Over GA Prisoner's Death
• Unidentified Prisoner Informant's Testimony Not Substantial Evidence
• Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $3000 for Destroyed Mail
• Restrictive Policies Violate Rights of Protective Custody Prisoners
• Florida Department of Corrections Ordered to Cease Racially Discriminatory Practices in Selected Reading Materiala
• NY DOC Beard Ban Upheld
• New York: Liberty Interest in Work Release
• Private Prison Corporation Not Entitled to 11th Amendment or Sovereign Immunity
• Censorship of Muslim Literature Struck Down, Detainees Have Right to Confidential Contact with Counsel
• $7,500 for Failing to Protect Snitch
• Attorney Fees Awarded in NV Legal Access Suit
• Federal Prisoners Sanctioned Loss of Good Time for Frivolous Suit
• Washington: Consecutive Terms for Multiple Sentencing Violations Upheld
• Los Angeles County Prisoner Hit With Clothes Settles For $50,000
• Failure to Treat Florida Prisoner's Agent Orange Disease Unconstitutional
• Eleventh Circuit: Florida Jail Officials Immune in Juvenile's Suicide
• Use of Magistrate Over Defendant's Objection Constitutional
• $25,000 Settlement For Juvenile Attacked After Court Segregation Order Ignored
• California Appellate Court Reinstates Murder Conviction For Dog Mauling Death
• VA Death Row Prisoners Not Entitled to Appointed Counsel
• Wisconsin Prisoner's Failure to Exhaust Remedies Required Dismissal
• Estate of Epileptic New Mexico Prisoner Settles for $1,250,000
• Eighth Circuit: No Constitutionally Protected Interest in Iowa Prison Wages
• Washington Prisoners Challenge Confinement Beyond EERD; Class Action Certification Granted; Defendants Get Qualified Immunityndants Get Qualified Immunity
• Factual Issues as to Legitimacy of Prisoner Regulation Precludes Dismissal
• Federal District Court Orders Missouri's Platte County Jail Closed
• Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies is Precondition to Prisoner Suit in Federal Court Before Release
• Nominal Damages Merit Attorney Fee Award; Erroneous Jury Instruction Standard Discussed
• Standard for Injunctive Relief Defined
• Equal Protection Clause Not Violated By Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons
• FTCA Claim Barred by Statute of Limitations
• Prisoner May Assert Contract Beneficiary Claim When Attacked by Guards
• VA Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Appointed Counsel
• Evidentiary Hearing Required to Determine Compliance with Wolff
• Failure to Ascertain Arrestee's Identity Creates Liability for False Imprisonment
• United States Supreme Court Holds that Probation Violators Must Be Afforded Representation at Probation Revocation/Resentencing Hearings
• Third-Party Prisoners Have Standing to Enforce Consent Decree; ADOC Bound By Decree Until Modified
• Federal Release Notice Statute Constitutional; Applies to Drug Trafficker Released Early
• Religious Belief Allows NY Jewish Prisoner to Grow Beard
• Two Wrongfully Imprisoned Michigan Men Receive $2.75 Million Partial Settlement
• Guard's Liability for Florida Prisoner's Suicide Jury Question
• FL Prisoners May Have Right to Notice and Hearing Before Transfer
• Third Circuit Sets Standard for Juvenile Detainee Failure to Protect Claims
• Georgia Sheriff Sues Over Using Prisoner Labor
• Washington Good Time Policy Violates Ex Post Facto Clause
• Florida Sheriff Liable for Wrongful Death Stemming from Failure to Provide Medical Care
• Florida Jail Liable in Medical Neglect Death by PHS
• Sanction Imposed for NY AG's 1-Year Delay in Answering Complaint
• New Mexico Jail Settles Escapee Murder Suit For $750,000.00
• Winning Appeal Not Enough to be Prevailing Party for Fees
• FL Ad-Seg Rules May Create Liberty Interest
• Fired California Prison Guards Awarded $410,000 for Retaliation
• First Amendment Allows Prohibition of Unsupervised Prison Group Prayer
• High-Speed Police Chase Requires Intent to Harm for Liability
• Hearsay Police Report with Indicia of Reliability Allowed in Parole Revocation Hearing
• Florida's "Right-of-Reply" Statute Unconstitutional
• FL Prisoner's Petition Deemed Filed When Given to Prison Officials
• $750 Paid in Washington Public Records Case
• Habeas Corpus Review Restricted in Military Trials
• First Circuit Holds Higher Standard for Prison Riot Claims
• FL Investigator Must Interview Requested, Unknown Witness in Disciplinary Hearing
• $21,213.76 in Fees/Costs Awarded for Discovery Sanctions by NY jail Officials
• FL Prisoner's Mandamus Petition Must Detail Facts Supporting Witness Denial at Disciplinary Hearing
• FL Prisoner Must Know Illicit Nature of Substance to Possess Drugs
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Injunction Against Pesticide Use, Dismisses Damage Claim
• Habeas Corpus Granted; State Used Wrong Standard to Convict
• Officials Engaged in Routine Medical Procedures not Deliberately Indifferent; Supervisors May be Liable
• Sheriff Denied Qualified Immunity in Jail Suicide
• Guard Denied Qualified Immunity in Prisoner's Assault
• FL Disciplinary Team member Cannot be Witness to Violation
• Strip Search Jury Instruction Held Invalid; New Trial Ordered
• Habeas Corpus Petitioner Convicted for False Declarations
• Georgia Man Falsely Arrested by Bond Agent Awarded $5,172
• Gender Discrimination Permissible in Guard Shift Assignment
• Prisoner Entitled to Be Present During Opening of Legal Mail Addressed to Him
• BOP Rule Limiting Detainee's Ability to Publish Books Unconstitutional
• Factual Issues Preclude Summary Judgment on Eighth Amendment, ADA Claims
• Prison Liable in Denying Bone Marrow Transplant
• Illinois Prisoner's Suit Dismissal Affirmed, Strike Reversed
• Contempt Order Extends Life of Georgia Jail Settlement Agreement
• Negligence Claim Stated in Florida Jail Prisoner's Suicide
• Due Process Required in Mail Censorship
• Sixth Circuit Orders Evidentiary Hearing in § 2255 Action; BOP Guard Gets 262 Months for Prisoner Rapes
• Guard Properly Convicted, Sentenced for Extorting Prisoners
• $1,135,000 Paid to Massachusetts Prison Guard for Rape
• Sheriff Deliberately Indifferent to Detainee Suicide Risk
• Federal Supervised Release Begins on Day of Release From Imprisonment
• New York Guard Awarded $120,000 for Hostile Work Environment From Racial Discrimination
• $8.2 Million Awarded for Florida Malicious Prosecution
• Alabama Prisoners Assault and Battery Fails After Guard Given Immunity
• $2,000 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Medical Negligence Claim
• Segregated and Illiterate Pennsylvania Prisoners Entitled to Legal Aid
• Nominal Damage Awards Must Apply to All Class Members
• Dismissal of Double-Celling, ETS Claims Vacated in Part
• California Disability Statute Tolls Limitation Statute for §1983 Suit
• $22,000 Paid in WA Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit
• State Tolling Statute Must be Applied to §1983 Suits
• Partial Vacation And Reversal In Federal Seg Case
• Habeas Granted for Failing to Present Witness Testimony at Disciplinary Hearing
• Washington Parole Revocation Process Upheld
• Eleventh Circuit Holds RLUIPA Constitutional by David Reutter
• Federal Class C Felony Permits 24 Months or Less Imprisonment Upon Supervision Revocation
• Guards Have Constitutional Privacy Right to Associate with Ex-Prisoners Off-Duty
• Guards Must have Knowledge of Risk of Harm
• $1,063,000 Verdict in Florida Prisoner's Wrongful Death
• $15,000 Paid in WA DOC Employees Sexual/Racial Discrimination Suit
• Limits Imposed on Court Conversion of Actions; BOP Law Enforcement Notification Implicitly Approved
• $1,000,000 Award for Crude, Nonconsensual Finger Amputation
• Arizona Statue of Limitations Tolled Until Prisoner Knows of or Should Have Known of Right to Bring Suit
• New York County and Sheriff Liable For Illegal Strip/Body Cavity Search
• $37,500 Paid in Washington for Guard's Sexual Harassment
• $100.00 Settlement In WA Mail Censorship Suit
• $2,025 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Retaliation Claim
• $2,250,000 Paid in Negligent Supervision of Washington Parolee
• $16,000 Paid in Excessive Force Use on Missouri Prisoner
• $12,000 Paid in D.C. Prisoner's Beating by Guard
• $2,500 Awarded in Pennsylvania False Arrest Claim
• $3,251,000 Verdict Rendered in California Detainee's Murder
• Stun Belt Allowed in Criminal Trial
• US Supreme Court Held Plaintiff Must Inform Himself Of His Legal/Medical Rights; Defines When Claim Accrues
• US Supreme Court Holds That There Is No Interlocutory Appeals on Municipal Liability
• $3.5 Million Paid in Stabbing Death by Washington Parolee
• $43,000 Paid in Washington DOC Employee's Gender Discrimination Claim
• $260,000 Paid for Washington Parolee's Attempted Rape
• Supreme Court Issues Test for Prison Rules
• $350,000 Awarded in Pennsylvania False Rape Charges
• $35,000 Paid to Florida Jail Nurse for Assault
• $10,000 Paid for Failure to Perform Washington Prisoner's Surgery
• $200,000 Verdict for Florida Prisoner in Failure to Treat Epilepsy
• $55,000 Paid in Rape by Washington Parolee
• No Disclosure of Federal Prisoners Held in Illinois Jail
• $7,000 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Legal Mail Withholding Claim
• $125 Attorney Fees Paid to Washington Prisoner in Personal Restraint Action
• $28,500 Paid in Florida Jail Prisoner's Medical Negligence Claim
• Seizure of MO Escapee's Prison Account Upheld
• $385,000 Paid to Connecticut Prisoner for Guard's Sexual Assault
• $100,000 Paid to Arizona Prisoner for Failure to Treat Dental Problem
• $5,000 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Failure to Maintain Grounds Claim
• Local Rules Govern Appointment of Counsel in FOIA Case
• US Supreme Court Held That Statutes Can Be Challenged Before Enforcement
• $402,000 Paid in Oregon Guard's Discrimination Suit
• $259,000 Paid in Michigan Guard's Discrimination Claim
• $9,500 Paid in Washington DOC Employee's Whistleblower Suit
• $321.58 Settlement In WA Mail Censorship Suit
• $75,000 Paid in Assault on Washington Prisoner
• $40,000 Paid in Washington Guards' Defamation Suit
• $600.00 Settlement In WA Mail Censorship Suit
• Supreme Court Defines Religious Rights in Prison
• Confinement Held Unjustified
• California Prison Mail Regulations/Restrictions on Attorney Investigators Unconstitutional
• Punishment for Distributing Buddhist Literature States Claim
• Wrong Zip Code Tolls Filing of Appeal
• Court Reverses Del Raine v. Carlson
• Disputed Facts Warrant Summary Judgment Reversal in Amputated Finger Case
• Limits on Prison Labor Union Constitutionally Valid
• Due Process Requires Contact Visits for Female Detainees
• Seizure of Nevada Prisoner Wages Held Constitutional
• Settlements Are Public Records
• No Writ Of Mandamus When Other Remedies Exist
• $750 Paid in Washington Prisoner's Religious Discrimination Suit
• New York Prisoner Wins Medical Neglect Law Suit
• Eighth Circuit Again Reverses District Court; Remands for Jury Trial
• US Supreme Court Held Laws Targeting Religion Are Unconstitutional; Santeria a Religion
• $5,703.97 Settlement In WA Mail Censorship Suit
• US Supreme Court Held Plaintiffs Have A Right To Amend Complaints
• US Supreme Court Holds That Witness Immunity Applies to All Witnesses.
• Excessive Violence States Eighth Amendment Claim
• NJ Court Upholds Ion Scanning of Visitors
• 7th Circuit Upholds Illinois Prisoner's Segregation, Denial of Outside Exercise
• Eighth Amendment Action States Claim, Warden's Qualified Immunity Defense Barred
• $170.69 Settlement In WA Gift Book Censorship Suit
• Supreme Court Holds Guard Liable For Punitive Damages In § 1983 Suit
• Jury Instruction And Exclusion Of Jail Standards Upheld In Failure To Protect Suit
• $500,000 Verdict in Pennsylvania Legal Malpractice Claim
• Mail Restrictions Examined Under Turner Standard
• US Supreme Court Held That Exclusion Of Jurors Based On Race Is Unconstitutional in Civil Cases
• Loss of Good-Time Credit, Transfer Not Excessive Disciplinary Sanctions
• Municipalities Must Have Unconstitutional Policy To Be Liable Under §1983
• US Supreme Court Held Officials Are Qualifiedly Immune From Suit Unless They Violate Clearly Established Law
• US Supreme Court Holds that Obscenity Is Not Protected by the First Amendment
• No Due Process For Discretionary Parole Hearings
• No Immunity In Denial Of Presence During Disciplinary Hearing
• Consent to Named Magistrate Does Not Apply to All Magistrates
• Qualified Immunity Granted to Prison Officials for Delaying Prisoner's Marriage 12 Months
• Demolition of Historic California Jail Stayed Pending New Study by John Dannenberg
• Colorado COA: Claim Concerning Restitution Deductions Should Name DOC
• Federal Jury Awards $225,000 to Georgia Prisoner Denied Glaucoma Medication
• Prisoners Have Right to Send Letters to News Media
• New York Prisoner Entitled to Reasons for Witnesses Refusal to Testify at Disciplinary Hearing
• Vermont Prisoners State Claim for Systemic Medical Neglect Law Suit
• Libel-Proof Doctrine Applied to Kansas Prisoner's Libel Suit
• Colorado: Limiting Prisoner to One Grievance Per Month Constitutional
• Sixth Circuit Explains Attorney Fee Awards in Brutality Cases
• Constructive Dismissal Defeats Summary Judgment in MA Whistle Blower Suit
• Sixth Circuit Vacates Dismissal of § 1983 Suit
• Heroin Withdrawal a Serious Medical Need in Addict's Jail Death
• Fine Only Sentence Not Custody for Habeas Purposes
• Consent Decree Entered Regarding Minnesota Prison Medical Care
• Dismissal of Grooming Rule Challenge Precluded; Evidentiary Burden on Prison Officials
• Absent Conflict, Magistrate May Determine Prisoner Placement During Litigation
• US Court Of Appeals Upheld Federal Statute On Contraband
• $450 Paid in NY Keeplock Case
• Classification Ordered in Maryland Prison to Reduce Rape
• Class Certified in New York Jail Post Riot Retaliation Suit
• Enlisted Military Personnel Cannot Sue Superior Officers for Constitutional Violations
• Seizure Of Federal Benefits By State Unconstitutional
• Attorney Fees Allowed on Contingency and Under Section 1988
• $600 Awarded in MO Detainee's Illegal Segregation Claim
• Retroactive Application of Florida Sentencing Guidelines Violates Ex Post Facto Clause
• Colorado Prisoners Win Partial Reversal on Religious Claims
• $500 Paid in NY Prisoner Medical Negligence Claim.
• Calling of Disciplinary Hearing Witnesses Contingent on Possible Punishment, Not Actual Punishment
• Deposition Sufficient to Present Testimony
• Delaware: Redactions Based On Officer Safety Not Valid Under FOIA
• $1000 Paid in WA Loss of Legal Material Case
• Discretionary Exception Bars Federal Tort Claim For Cellmate Attack
• Colorado DOC Contractor Communications Privileged
• Eleventh Circuit: Documents Requested From DOJ Exempt Under FOIA
• Supreme Court Holds Racial Segregation Illegal
• Virginia's One-Ounce Incoming Mail Policy Upheld
• California: Prison Drug Law Applies to State Mental Hospital
• State Death Row Prisoner Not Entitled to Appointment of Federal Counsel for Clemency
• City Officials Not Immune From Liability
• Sexually Harassed California Prison Employees Awarded $1,978,376
• Injunctive Relief Reversed Due to Lack of Personal Stake
• Licensed Attorney Acting Pro Se Not Entitled Attorney Fee Award
• Sexually Harassed Prison Kitchen Worker Awarded $90,000
• Settlement's Retention of Jurisdiction for Enforcement is Functional Equivalent of Consent Decree
• High-Speed Police Pursuit Did Not Waive State Immunity
• Montana Supreme Court Upholds Jury Verdict in Death Action
• Indiana Juvenile's Rights Discussed
• Visitation Rights Suspension Overturned
• Second Circuit: Lack of Standing Invalidates Strip Search Ban
• Kansas COA Upholds Denial of Hygiene Supplies
• Supervision Not Required for Failure to Obtain Leave to Take Prisoner's Deposition
• Sex Offender Must Meet Stigma-Plus Test to Sue for Reputation Damage
• $850 Paid in Prisoner's Medical Failure to Treat Claim
• Immunity Granted to Sex Offenders in Treatment
• Washington DOC Pays $3,000 for Failing to Timely Disclose Public Records
• Minnesota Supreme Court: Comparative Fault Analysis Inappropriate in Jail Suicide Case
• Municipal Judge Not Policy Maker in Arrestee's Toilet Denial Suit
• Montana Supreme Court Upholds State's Sex Offender Registration Act
• IAD's 180 Day Period Commences Upon Receipt by State Officials that Lodge Detainer
• Special Condition of Registering with State Sex Offender Agency Mandatory for Federal Sex Offender
• Memorandum Read Into Evidence as Recollection; Permissible as Exception to Hearsay Rule
• Massachusetts: Fact Issues Regarding Gender-Based Punitive Segregation Preclude Summary Judgment
• Jail Prisoner's Dismissed Medical Claim Vacated and Remanded
• Indiana Law Requires Service by Mail at Place of Employment
• Modification of Disciplinary Charge After Hearing Not Due Process Violation
• Ionscan Test Reasonable Cause to Require Urinalysis Test
• Kentucky Prisoner Has Right to Adequate Medical Care
• Injunction Against Corrections Department Affirmed; Presumption Ancillary to Injunction
• Guard's Medical and Drug History Discloseable in Discovery
• Notice Required When Motion to Dismiss Treated as Motion for Summary Judgment
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Serious Medical Need
• Difference Between Nonprofit and Regular Bulk Rate Mail
• Parties May Not Choose Specific Magistrate Judge
• Prison Nurse's First Amendment Suit Struck Down by Summary Judgment
• Pretrial Detainees May Not Be Disciplined or Denied Family Visits
• Supreme Court Prohibits School Prayer
• Sixth Amendment Not Violated
• Tennessee: Fine Imposed on Prisoner for Refusing Drug Test Reversed
• PLRA Applies to Juveniles
• No Heightened Pleading Standard in Municipal Liability Cases
• New York Prisoner Awarded $100 for Delayed Pain Medication
• U.S. Supreme Court Holds There Is No Interlocutory Appeal on Municipal Liability
• Summary Judgment Denied to Doctor Who Failed to Act Promptly
• Oregon Protesters Awarded $845,000 in Excessive Force Actions
• State Death Sentenced Prisoner Not Entitled to Federally Funded Counsel in State Clemency Proceeding
• Paraplegic Prisoner's Medical Neglect Claim Upheld on Appeal
• Suit Against CCA Dismissed For Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies
• NY Prisoner Entitled to Hearing Before Temporary Release Committee
• Nude Photo Publication Rejection by Florida Jail Upheld
• Summary Judgment Against Fired Wackenhut Employee Reversed
• Order Halting Sex Offender Registration Reversed
• Ninth Circuit's One-Interlocutory-Appeal Rule Overturned
• Ohio Prisoner Injured in Fall Loses State Negligence Suit
• Preliminary Injunction Carries Judicial Imprimatur for Attorney Fee Award
• Supreme Court Overturns Dismissal of §1983 Action
• Parole Hearing Does Not Estopp False Arrest Suit
• Prevailing Party Status Obtained by Enforceable Settlement Agreement or Preliminary Injunction Granted
• Notice Required When Converting Dismissal Motion into Summary Judgment
• Parole Board Decision One Time Act That Fails to Toll Statute of Limitations
• Tennessee Prisoner Not Responsible for Failure to Prosecute
• Paraplegic Granted Injunction Requiring Proper Medical Treatment
• Prisoner Stated Excessive Force Claim; Liberal Construction Applied to Pleadings
• Tennessee Prisoner in Private Prison Not "Inmate" by Statutory Definition
• Summary Judgment of Tennessee Prisoner's Appeal of Disciplinary Ruling Reversed
• $345,000 Awarded To Gay California Prison Guard For Sexual Orientation Harassment And Discrimination
• JNOV New Trial Denied in Indiana Jail's Suicide Watch Policy
• Warrantless Search by Probation Officer Constitutional
• Washington Appeals Court Reverses DNA Sample Requirement for Attempted Crime
• Florida Public Records Law Provides No Exemption of Photographs that Fail to Identify Sexual Assault Victim
• WI Release Fund Can Be Used to Pay Filing Fee
• Review Board Required for Minnesota Sex Offender Treatment Facilities
• Wisconsin: PLRA Does Not Apply to Out of State Prisoners
• Pro Se Litigant Not Entitled to Attorney Fee Award
• 5th Circuit Remands for Reassessment of Attorney Fees
• Court Appearance Governed by Fundamental Fairness
• §1983 Remedies Only Federal Law, Right to Witnesses at Hearing
• $4,000 Award to IN Jail Prisoner Placed on Suicide Watch
• Alabama Sheriffs Entitled to Immunity in §1983 Actions
• U.S. Supreme Court Resolves Split Over Heck v. Humphrey, §1983
• Tennessee: Punitive-Based Administrative Segregation States Claim
• Supreme Court Defines Federal Officials Immunity for State Tort Violations
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Severely Curtails Habeas Corpus
• Public Defender's Party Association Protected Activity
• BOP Guards Conviction for Beating Prisoner Affirmed
• Confinement in Strip Cells as Disciplinary Tool Unconstitutional
• Presentence Investigation Reports Accessible Under Freedom Information Act
• California Prisoner Has Right to Court Access, Child Custody and Visitation
• Muslim Literature Bar Reversed, Medal Ban Upheld
• Racial Segregation in Nebraska Prison Unconstitutional
• US Parole Commission Amendment Upheld
• FL Disciplinary Mandamus Petition Exempt from Prisoner Indigency Statute
• Attorney Misconduct at Depositions
• Texas County Liable in Juvenile's Jail Suicide
• Racial Segregation in Kansas Jail Unconstitutional
• Compensatory Damages Not Allowed for Value of Violated Rights
• Retaliatory Transfer for Assisting Prisoners with Litigation States Claim
• $380,000 Award Against Louisiana Sheriff and Deputy Upheld in Jail Rape Case
• Rhode Island Prisoner Awarded $2,000 for Fractured Wrist
• EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury
• Release-Dismissal Agreement Bars Future Suit
• Dismissal for Frivolousness is Basis for Res Judicata
• Deliberate Indifference Survives Summary Judgment
• Injunction Against Placing New Prisoners in Lorton
• Genuine Issues of Material Fact Preclude Summary Judgment
• Segregated Prisoner Allowed Visits with His Children
• Mask May Be Required in Prisoner's Spitting Trial
• Prisoner Prevailing Party, Awarded Attorney Fees
• FTCA Judgment Facts Suit Against U.S. Bars Bivens Action Based on Same Facts
• Prisoner Not Retaliated Against, Whistleblower Claim Not Allowed
• Prisoner Awarded $130,000 in § 1983 Claim, JNWV Motion Denied
• Official Information Privilege Limited
• Unlawful Withdrawal of Prisoner's Funds Warrants Only Nominal Damages
• Limited Attorney Fee Award for Partial Victory
• Heck Does Not Bar Damage Suit Alleging Violation of Extradition Procedures
• Videotaping States Claim, District of Columbia Can be Sued Under §1983
• County Jail Not Liable for Failure to Treat Knee Injury
• Sixth Circuit Holds Prisoner's Access to Court Not Violated
• Holding Prisoner Past Release Date Violates Due Process
• NJ Parole Class Action Settled
• Prisoner's Haircut Raises Constitutional & Discovery Issues
• Jailers Denied Qualified Immunity on Prisoner Assault
• Videotape Evidence Properly Admitted in Prisoner's Beating Trial
• Court Enjoins CA Seg Unit Conditions
• Careless Removal of Lead-Based Paint from Texas Prison States a Claim
• Prisoner Union Entitled to Protection
• Lack of Toilets in Cells Unconstitutional
• Summary Judgment Partly Reversed for Refusing Amended Complaint Filing
• WI PLRA Allows Access to Release Account Funds
• Summary Judgment Reversed on Denial of Meals to Diabetic Prisoner
• Differing Medical Opinions Not Deliberate Indifference
• No Parole Violation for Working with Ex-Prisoners
• No Retroactive Application of Wolff or Landman
• Prisoners Selected For Random Urinalysis Must Be Chosen Blindly
• County Liable in Prisoner Death, Individual Defendants Not; $147,000 Jury Verdict Upheld
• Court Orders Minor Child Visitation in NJ Jail
• $4,000 Injury Award for Body Cavity Search
• Ohio's Rape Shield Law Doesn't Shield Alleged Victim's Diary
• Consent Judgment Entered to Improve Confinement Conditions at MO Jail
• Leavenworth Prison Officials Granted Qualified Immunity on Court Access Case
• Fla DOC Cannot Alter Concurrent Sentence
• Warden Denied Qualified Immunity in Guard's Race Discrimination Suit
• No Brady Violation in Prison Disciplinary Hearing; Videotape Inconclusive
• Mental Health Supervisor Granted Qualified Immunity in Prisoner's Sexual Assault
• Visitor Passing Through Metal Detector Partly Disrobed Not "Strip Search"
• Tenth Circuit: Kansas Prisoner's Exercise, Newspaper Ban Claims Valid
• Misdemeanor Conviction Can Be Treated as Felony Under USSG
• Celling Non-Smoker with Smoker Negligence, Not Constitutional Claim
• Parolees' Claims for Sexual Assault Dismissed as Untimely
• Additional Drug Tests Not Required to Satisfy Due Process
• $36,150 Award of Attorney Fees in Puerto Rico Prisoner's Death
• Indiana Prisoner's CAB Conviction for Tobacco Trafficking Supported by Evidence
• Use of Stun Gun, Four-Point Restraints Not Constitutional Violation
• Prison Warden Granted Qualified Immunity in Employee's Death
• Indiana Prisoner's First Amendment Religion Claim Dismissed as Frivolous
• Fla. Prisoners Have Liberty Interest to Remain in General Population
• Summary Judgment for Jail Guard Upheld; Punch, Injury De Minimis
• Liberty Interest in Ad-Seg Early Release Program
• Prisoner's Retaliation Claims Dismissed
• No Qualified Immunity for Prison Guard in Prisoner Shooting
• Dirty Cop's Racketeering Sentence Upheld
• Forcible Administration of Antipsychotic Medication Doesn't Violate Due Process
• South Dakota Prisoners' Dismissed Access to Courts Claims Partly Reversed
• Access Denied to Law Library; Claim Stated; Summary Judgment Vacated
• Environmental Tobacco Amendment Exposure Alone Doesn't Violate Eighth Amendment
• Negligence Unproven in Ohio Prisoner's Death Following Hernia Surgery
• DUI Guilty Pleas Don't Bar Blood Draw Suits
• Dismissal of Prisoner's Access to Courts, Due Process Claims Erroneous
• Nevada Prisoner's Dismissed Deliberate Indifference Claim on ETS Exposure Reversed
• Appeals Court Reduces $500,000 Police Brutality Award
• Seventh Circuit: Administration of Delousing Shampoo in Indiana Jail Constitutional
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Dismissal for Consideration Under McKune v. Lile
• Parole Board May Revoke Parole on Subsequent Drug Test if Positive
• Indiana Prisoner's Tobacco Trafficking Conviction Upheld; Habeas Corpus Denied
• New Jersey Prisoner Denied Right to Artificially Inseminate Wife
• Pulaski County Jail Ordered to Clean Up or Quit
• Oregon: Imprisonment Warrants Suspension of Child Support Payments
• Rape Suit Dismissal Summarily Affirmed
• WA S.Ct. Holds Prisoner Witnesses Should Not Appear in Court in Prison Clothes or Shackles
• Dismissal Reversed on Disciplinary Segregation Case Where Fact Issues Remained
• Georgia Student's Personal Injury Suit Against Guards Dismissed
• Prisoner's Claim of Censorship of Non-Obscene Materials Remanded
• Arbitrary Censorship and Abuse of Disabled Prisoners Unlawful
• Indiana Prisoners Win Censorship Suit on Communist Literature and Nude Photos
• Texas Jail Director's Conviction Upheld
• Qualified Immunity for Rockerfeller in Attica Prison Riot
• Michigan Prisoner Civil Suit for Sexual Abuse
• Judge Immune From § 1983 Action
• Two Postage Stamps Weekly Allows Access to Courts
• PA Legal Assistance Suit Remanded
• Kosher Diet and Jewish Beard Requirement States Claim
• District Court Enjoins Illinois Prison Regarding Deficient Health Care
• Iowa: Prior Sex Offenses Not Grounds For Prisoner's Continued Confinement
• TN Prisoner Libel Proof
• Arkansas Beating Suit Wrongly Dismissed When Court Won't Call Witnesses
• Prison Stabbing Violates Eight Amendment
• Washington Prisoner's Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea Denied
• Disenfranchisement of Felons Constitutional; Claim Frivolous
• $75,000 Award Upheld in Use of Carcinogense Blood Detection Agency
• Partial Amputation Defeats Summary Judgment
• NY Prisoner's Right to Practice Religion was Violated
• Kansas: Jail Time Must be Applied to Felony Sentence First
• Social Security Application Claims Estop Fired Jailer's ADA Claims
• Prisons Required to Provide Law Libraries or Other Legal Aid
• D.C. Female Arrestees File Tort Claims Over Illegal Strip Searches
• Publications Ban Unconstitutional
• Transfer to Mental Hospital without Due Process Unconstitutional
• Texas Sex Offender Counseling Provision Not Ex Post Facto
• SAMs Valid, Requiring Defense Attorneys' Affirmation Invalid
• Evidentiary Hearing Required for Legal Mail Rights
• State and Official Capacity Defendants Not "Persons" Under § 1983
• Public Sector Employee's § 1983 Equal Protection Claim Allowed Without Pleading Title VII Claim
• Nevada: Prisoners Eligible for Out-Of-State Jail Time
• New York: State Liable For Damages In Prisoner's Fall
• Pension Fund Garnished to Satisfy Criminal Restitution Order.
• Post-sentence Report Adequate Where Pre-sentence Report Unavailable
• New York: Nassau County Settles With Assaulted Prisoner For $98,500
• Retaliatory Transfer for Seeking Creation of Law Library Unconstitutional
• Prisoner's Complaint Dismissed; Administrative Exhaustion Untimely; Excessive Force Not Used
• Parole Board Officials Entitled to Absolute Immunity
• New York: State Liable In Prisoner Assault, Prisoner Awarded $250
• "Some Evidence" Exists Iowa Prisoner Engaged in Assault Rather than Fighting
• California-Based Prison Supplier Awarded $2,250,000 For Fraud, Unfair Competition
• IAD Not Violated; "Law of the Case" Controls
• Preliminary Screening Required Prior to Double Ceiling
• Sixth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity Denial; MDOC Director's Policy Challenged
• $1,960 Awarded in Washington Public Records Suit
• Prisoner's Suit Over Unsanitary Meals States Claims
• Massachusetts: Confinement In Disciplinary Unit Constitutional
• Prisoner's Damages from Civil Suit May Not Be Taken for Recovery of Incarceration
• Montana: No Liberty Interest in Assignment to Particular Prison
• Prison Doctor's Lack of Knowledge Does Not Constitute Deliberate Indifference
• New York State Prisoner Awarded $1,000 For Work Related Knife Injury
• Lost Magazine States Free Speech Claim; Dismissal Reversed in Part
• No Preliminary Inunction for Firing of Prisoner Law Clerks
• NY Property Recovery Procedures Require Notice of Procedure; Procedures May Violate Due Process
• California Lifer Parole Rescission Upheld On One of Five Grounds Alleged
• Eighth Circuit rules that BOP has discretion to place prisoners in IFRP
• Florida: Prisoner Raped In County Jail Awarded $65,950
• PA Prisoner Has No Right to "Idle Pay"
• No Deliberate Indifference to Medical, Denial of Access to Courts
• California: Parents Of Man Who Died In Custody Awarded $2,000,000
• Prisoner Appeals Damages Verdict in Failure to Protect Suit
• Sheriff's Mass Purchase of Newspapers to Suppress News Unconstitutional.
• Ohio: Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $641,858 Against Attorney
• Florida: County Prisoner Slipped On Wet Floor, Awarded $6,000
• Oregon Court of Appeals Grants Judicial Review of Parole Decision
• Sentence of Internet Usage Ban Requires Notice and Limitations.
• Washington DOC Pays $1,500 in Ice Slip and Fall
• Dismissal and QI Denied in Cross-Gender Pat Searches
• Massachusetts Prisoner Sufficiently Alleges Violations Of State Civil Rights Act
• Summary Judgment Of Rehabilitation Act Suit Precluded By Fact Issues
• Turner Standard Not Applicable To Attorneys
• Plaintiff States Claim Against Private Medical Providers In § 1983 Action
• Prisoner-to-Prisoner Mail Ban Upheld But Can Be Unconstitutional
• Prisoner Has No Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy In Cell
• Limit On Free Filings Upheld, Dismissal For Frivolousness, Nonprosecution Reversed
• Jail Employees Privacy Protection Suit Denied
• South Dakota Prison Conditions Unconstitutional
• Dismissal Of § 1983 Religious Name Change Claims Vacated
• Second Circuit Partly Reinstates Prisoner's §1983 Claims
• No Constitutional Right Created By State Jail Standards
• Fact Issues Preclude Summary Judgment Of Prisoner's Sixth Amendment Claim
• Ninth Circuit: Prisoner May Amend Complaint To Allege Deliberate Indifference
• Mootness Exception Discussed in Law Library Access Case
• Limits On Medical Malpractice Damages Violates Texas Constitution
• Washington Supreme Court Requires Proof of Recent Overt Act in Sexually Violent Predator Case
• Alabama DOC's Mail Accumulation Policy Unconstitutional, Denial Of Motion To Amend Erroneous
• Colorado DOC Miscalculates Parole Eligibility Date
• Presumed Damage Award Upheld in First Amendment Case
• Holding Prisoner Beyond Release Date Violates Due Process
• Transferred Prisoner States Claim As To Legal, Indigent Mail Policies
• Dismissal Of Prisoner's Damages Claim For Access To Courts Violations Reversed
• New Jersey DOC Must Clarify Disciplinary Hearing Record
• Disciplinary Findings Do Not Preclude Subsequent Factual Litigation; QI Denied
• Delay in Treating Broken Foot States Cause and Shows Deliberate Indifference
• Jail's Access To Courts Program, Visitation Policies Unconstitutional
• Prison May Not Open Identifiable Legal Mail Outside Prisoner's Presence
• Prisoner's Presence at Civil Trial May Be Ordered
• Prison Programs Receive Federal Funds Under Civil Rights Restoration Act Definition
• Washington Parole Officers Liable For Negligent Supervision
• Failure to Accommodate Blind Prisoner Violates ADA
• 9th Circuit Invalidates Prisoner-to-Prisoner Mail Ban
• Muslim Prisoners' Allegation Of Forced Pork Handling States Claim
• Removal Not Precluded By Single Eleventh Amendment Barred Claim
• Los Angeles County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Attorneys Not Entitled To Meet With Cooperating Witnesses
• Due Process Required In Florida Forfeiture Actions
• Marshalls Liable for Delay in Treating Detainee's Broken Arm
• Sanction Of Nearly $1 Million In Attorney Fees Upheld
• Discipline for Content of Outgoing Mail Reversed
• Tenth Circuit: Indigent Plaintiffs Not Responsible For Service
• Required DNA Submission Under Patriot Act Constitutional
• Social Security Benefit Suspension For Civilly Committed Upheld
• New York Prison Beard Ban Unconstitutional, Enforcement Enjoined
• Cause Of Action For Monetary Damages Available Under Montana Constitution
• Supreme Court Sets Standard for Stay of Injunctions
• Imposition Of Constructive Trust To Collect Pension Benefits Prohibited
• District Attorney Must Pay $50,001 Damages; Seized Property Illegally Held
• Summary Judgment to Jail Officials Reversed
• Iowa: Due Process Not Violated In Disciplinary Proceedings
• Ohio Affords Right To Be Represented In Parole Hearings
• Ban on "Communist Political Propaganda" Violates First Amendment
• No Punishment for Possession of Radical Religious Literature
• Colorado Prisoners Awarded $45,466 In Attorney Fees And Costs
• Oregon Prisons Ordered to Reduce Population to Design Capacity
• NY DOCS Policy Possibly Violates ADA Prohibition Against Disability Inquiry
• Plaintiffs Awarded Attorney Fees For Criminal Defense In § 1983 Action
• Work Release Removal May State Claim
• Prisoner Need Not Surrender Amenities to Proceed In Forma Pauperis
• Fact Issues Preclude Summary Judgment In Prisoner Rape Case
• Affirmative Action, Special Relationship Required For Government Liability
• Former Prisoner Paralegal's Entry Into BOP Upheld
• Publication, Postage Stamp Ban States Claim
• No Constitutional Right To Appointed Counsel In Post Conviction Proceedings
• Florida Statute Decreasing Gain-Time Award Unconstitutional
• General or Residual Personal Injury Statute Limitations Applies to § 1983 Cases
• Retaliation Claim Does Not Precede Exhaustion of State Administrative Remedies
• PLRA: Exhaustion Of Nonexistent Administrative Remedies Not Required
• Federal Prisoner's Retaliation Claims Survive Summary Judgment by John Dannenberg
• COA Denied; No Due Process Violation in Repeal of Credits
• § 1983 Accrual Date in Disciplinary Action Is Date Of State Annulment; QI Denied
• California Supreme Court Interprets Portions of Sexually Violent Predator Act
• Incarceration Alone Does not Provide Basis for Adoption
• Washington Public Disclosure Act: DOC Employee Evaluations Unavailable Absent Misconduct
• Oregon Seizure of Punitive Damages for Victim Fund Upheld
• Rule 12(b)(6) Dismissal Before Service of In Forma Pauperis Complaint Improper
• Arkansas Must Acknowledge Prisoner's Muslim Name
• United States Supreme Court: Laws Prohibiting Homosexuality Are Unconstitutional
• Federal Court Clarifies Texas Prisoners' Disciplinary Appeal Rights
• Idaho DOC/Employer not Liable for Negligently Supervising Probationer
• Indiana's Habitual Offender Rule Questioned by Seventh Circuit
• Qualified Immunity Denied In Use Of 5-Point Restraint
• Drug Addicted WA Prisoners not Entitled to Treatment
• Prevailing Party Entitled to Attorney Fees in Most Cases
• New Jersey Supreme Court Orders Parole, Halfway House Placement
• Prison Conditions Decree Extended
• Los Angeles County Policy Of Lump Sum § 1983 Settlements May Interfere With Right To Counsel
• Retroactive Withholding of Good Time Upheld
• Dismissal Denied for Delay of Dental Treatment
• Decision Enjoining New York DOC Beard Ban Vacated, Remanded
• Award of Nominal Damages Only Affirmed in Excessive Force Suit
• New York DOCS Sick Leave Policy Violates ADA
• Incarceration Alone Does not Provide Basis to Terminate Parental Rights
• Incentive Awards Disallowed, County Intervention Denied in Prison Riot Settlement
• Oklahoma Court Establishes Procedure for Recouping Costs of Incarceration
• 7th Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Raped Prisoner's Eighth Amendment Claims
• Washington: Sanctions For Insolent/Threatening Language In Grievances Constitutional
• Dismissal for Failure of Service Reversed; District Court Abused Discretion
• Theft of Property During Search by Police Officer Actionable
• Alcoholic WA Prisoners not Entitled to Individualized Treatment
• Prisoner's Dismissed § 1983 Complaint Reversed in Part
• Virginia Prisoner's § 1983 Action Over Prison Policies Dismissed
• New York DOCS's Rube Goldberg Mail Rules Struck Down
• No Due Process of BOP Central Monitoring System
• Court Has No Discretion To Postpone Automatic Stay Under PLRA
• Illinois: No Parental Immunity for Residential Child Care Institution
• Kentucky Juvenile Prisoner Was Properly Strip Searched for Probable Cause
• Alaska Superior Courts May Not Grant Furloughs Under Criminal Rule 35(b)
• Heightened Security Measures For Indicted Prison Gang Member Warranted
• Nondisclosure Of Government Records Not Justified By FOIA
• Claims Against California Youth Authority Valid, Class Certified
• Washington State Civil Commitment Statute Constitutional
• Plaintiffs' Summary Judgment Motion Denied In Strip Search Case
• Fact Issues Preclude Summary Judgment Of Iowa Guard's State, Federal Claims
• New York DOC Beard Ban Held Unconstitutional On Remand
• Prisoners Contempt Motion Requesting Compensatory Damages Not Precluded
• Federal Detainee May Pursue Bivens Action Against Private Prison Guards
• Habeas Corpus Appropriately Challenges 'Fact Or Duration' Of Confinement
• Involuntarily Transferring Prisoner to HIV Dormitory Violates Right to Privacy
• No Qualified Immunity For Prison Officials In Paralyzed Prisoner's Suit
• Kansas SVP Verdict Dismissed for Untimely Trial
• DC Detainees Strip Searched After Receiving Release Orders State Claim
• Physical Injury Required for All Prisoner Suits Seeking Compensatory and Punitive Damages by David Reutter
• Allegation Of Interference With Grievance Completion Precludes Summary Judgment
• Notice Required When Mail Withheld For Disciplinary Reasons
• Prisoner's Suit Over Second-Hand Smoke States Claims
• Deceased Michigan Prisoner's Estate States Eigth Amendment Claim
• PLRA Not Applicable In Habeas Cases
• 7th Circuit Reversed Directed Verdict on First Amendment Claims
• Dismissal Of Actions Before Issuance Of Summonses Improper
• Prisoner Fails To Show Retaliation, Deliberate Indifference
• Drug Program Removal Requires Due Process
• Massachusetts Arrestee Subjected to Unjustified Force
• Court Rules On JJDPA Suit Issues, State Compliance Plan Ordered
• Sleeping in Raw Sewage States Claim
• No Arraignment, Imprisonment For Civil Debt Raise Fact Issues
• South Carolina: Liberty Interest Not Implicated by Denial of Rehabilitation
• Washington DOC Pays $52,000 in Bookshelf Injury Resulting in Blindness
• No Due Process Violation for False Arrest on Valid Warrant
• Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130
• Supreme Court Discusses Standing to Sue
• Officials Not Qualifiedly Immune In Paralyzed Prisoner's Suit
• Federal Parole Officials Not Entitled To Absolute Immunity
• $24,000 Settlement Recommended for Disabled Los Angeles Probation Officer
• $55,503 Settlement for Barefoot California Prisoner
• $90,000 Settlement for Alabama Prisoners Raped by Jail Guards
• New York: Prisoner Raped In County Jail Awarded $250,000
• Administrative Remedy Exhaustion Rule Restricted
• Alaska Pays Victims of Prisoner-Orchestrated Mail Bomb $2.6 Million
• Maine Prisoner Subjected to Excessive Force Awarded $30,000
• California Settles Inadequate Psychiatric, Medical Care Suit for $1.5 Million
• No Heightened Pleading Standard for 1983 Actions
• Class Claims Must Be "Fairly Encompassed" By Named Plaintiff's Claims
• WI Prisoners may be Charged for Transport to Court Proceedings
• Iowa Cost Bond Rule Unconstitutional When Applied To Post-Conviction Petitions
• Florida Corrections Secretary Not Liable For Failing to Protect From Rape
• Washington DOC Pays $4 Million in Parolee's Rape of Seven Year Old
• Counsel Required before Misdemeanor Imprisonment
• Court Modifies Education Plan for Rikers Island Youth
• D.C. Prisoner's $125,000 Award for Medication Denial, Back Injury Upheld
• Dismissal of Prisoner Civil Rights Complaint Against State Sponsored Substance Abuse Program Affirmed
• Texas Woman Fired For Reporting Abuse Awarded $202,000
• Independent Evaluation Mandated For Federal Prisoner's Nunc Pro Tunc Housing Designation Request
• Muslim Prisoner Entitled to Prayer Oil; RLUIPA Held Constitutional
• No Equal Protection Violation For Sex/Non-Sex Offense Parole Periods
• Notice of Summary Judgment Requirements Mandatory for Pro Se Prisoners
• One Hundred Fifty Dollars Awarded For Federal Prisoner's Personal Property Loss
• $1,000 Paid for WA DOC Property Destruction
• $1,140 Paid in Car Crash by Sleeping WA Guard
• $1,200 Paid and Apology Given in WA Racial Discrimination Suit
• $1,500 Paid in WA Retaliation Suit
• $3,300 Paid in False Sexual Conduct Claim by WA DOC Officials
• $3,500 Paid for Injuries Sustained in WA Prison Riot
• District Court Reversed; Failure to Allow Amendment Abuse of Discretion
• $8,500 Paid in WA DOC Wrongful Warrant/Arrest Suit
• $11,000 Paid in Illegal WA DNA Testing
• $9,000 Paid in WA Retaliation Suit
• $10,000 Paid in WA Chaining to Fence and Beating Suit
• $25,000 Paid in WA Parolee Negligent Supervision suit
• $500 Paid in WA Work release Lost Property Claim
• Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners
• $200,000 Awarded In New York Prisoner Assaulted By Guard Suit
• New Mexico County Settles Sex Assault Claim for $40,000
• Forcing Disabled Prisoner to Work Violates Eighth Amendment
• $6,722 Paid in Improper Lien for WA Attorney Costs
• $51,050 Paid in WA Retaliation Claim
• $59,000 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Sexual Harassment Case
• $60,000 Awarded In New York Prisoner Assault Suit
• $6,798 Paid for Injuries Sustained in Washington Riot
• $60.00 Paid in Destroyed WA Prisoner's Property
• $62,000 Paid in WA DOC Cook's Sexual Harassment Suit
• $510.00 Awarded In Prisoner Property Loss Suit
• Delayed Sweat Lodge Construction Unconstitutional; Qualified Immunity Granted
• Denial of Handicapped Shower Implicates ADA/RA & §1983
• Drug Patch Discussed
• Fifth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Pugh v. Locke/Newman v. Alabama
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Refusal to Modify Ruiz Consent Decree
• Most of Ruiz Relief Terminated Under PLRA
• New Trial Granted in Strip Search of Detainee
• No Notice of Reconsideration is Abuse of Discretion
• OK Prisoner Has Right To File Civil Complaint To Enforce Property Rights
• Restraining Chair Beating Heads for Trial
• Termination of Prospective Relief Under PLRA Constitutional
• Texas Prison Officials Held in Contempt in Prison Conditions Case
• Washington Supreme Court Holds Sex Offender Treatment Files Confidential
• Arizona: Failure to Provide Hearing Aid States Claim Under ADA, RA
• California: Guard Hit by Contractor Awarded $405,242 for Knee Injury
• California Man Awarded $55,000 for False Arrest
• Colorado COA Reverses Dismissal Of Individual's State Law, § 1983 Claims
• Dismissal of HCV Claim Affirmed
• Texas: State Court Erred In Dismissing Prisoner's Federal Claims
• San Mateo, California Jail Strip Search Plaintiffs Win Class Certification
• Prisoner Claim of Medical Co-payment and Delay in Treatment for Aspirin Dismissed
• Administrative Hearing on Forced Medication Requires Due Process
• L.A. County Pays $46,752 for Hospitalization of Juvenile Injured During Arrest
• Supreme Court Orders Dismissal of Some Defendants in Pugh
• WA Prisoner Gets Major Infractions Expunged And Good Time Restored After Filing PRP
• $3,000 Tort Claim Awarded In Washington Employee Disability Suit
• $3,500 Paid in WA Guard's Sexual/Martial Harassment Suit
• $6,285,436 Awarded In Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit
• $7,500 Settlement To Victims Of Washington Parolee Scam In Tacoma, Washington
• $10,000 Paid in WA Unfair Labor Practice Charges
• $14,000 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington On Smoking Suit
• $26,467 Awarded In Washington Employee Disability Suit
• $27,500 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Employee Sexual Harassment Suit
• $30,000 Tort Claim Award In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit
• $40,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit
• $45,000 Awarded In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit
• $47,000 Settlement In Washington Employee Wrongful Termination Suit
• $49,500 Settlement In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit
• $75,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Sexual Assault Suit
• $100,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Rape Of A Child
• $231,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Sexual Assault Suit
• $250,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit
• $2,000 For 35 Days Unlawful Confinement by Washington DOC
• Alabama Jail Totality Of Conditions Suit
• CA Supreme Court Strikes Ban On Mail Between Prisoner And Parolee
• CA Supreme Court Strikes Down Prison Ban On Union Buttons
• CA Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Prisoner Union Meetings
• California State Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $2,500
• Civil Defendants Must Pay for Plaintiff's Deposition Copy
• Class Representative Must Have Same Interest as Class
• Costs of Deposition Copy Not Waivable
• Denial of PI Affirmed, But Claim Has "Colorable Merit"
• Jury Need Decide Superintendents Liability in GA Prisoner's Death
• Mailing Out Property Protects Property Interest
• NJ Prisoner Can Sue County for Rape by Guard; $258,000 Verdict Affirmed
• Pervasive Risk of Harm Violates Eight Amendment
• US Supreme Court Defines Standard For Consent Decree Modification
• WA DOC Can Provide Organ Transplants
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Protection for Plaintiffs in Ruiz Suit
• Class Certification Denied in Delay of Probable Cause Hearings Suit
• Waiver Issue Requires Determination by District Court
• WICC Not Federal Law
• $200 Awarded New York Prisoner for Fan Injury
• $350 Awarded New York Prisoner for Assault
• $210,000 Awarded Indiana Guard for Retaliation by Supervisors
• WA Prisoners' Conviction Reversed Due To Prosecutorial Misconduct And A Biased Juror
• No Attorney Fee Award After Timely Offer Of Settlement
• Alabama Segregation Mail Ban, Conditions, Unconstitutional
• Attorney Fees Awarded to Counsel That Withdrew Prior to Trial; Beating Damage Award Upheld
• BOP Regulation Barring Prisoner Reporters Constitutional; Ruling Later Vacated
• Collect Only Telephone Calls to Attorneys Denies Access to Counsel
• D.C. Prisoner Death Suit Verdict of $1,030,002 Excessive
• Prison Doctor, Administrators Not Indifferent; Prison Nurse Was
• PLN Nazi Guard Censorship Suit Remanded for Injunctive Relief
• Los Angeles County Prisoner Settles Shoulder Injury Claim For $10,000
• Order Requiring Utility To Disperse Third Party Material Unconstitutional
• Texas Appeals Court Upholds Epileptic Prisoner's $60,000 Award
• WA DOC Pays $102,000 to Wife Stabbed During Conjugal Visit
• Parole Claim Moot after Release from Supervision
• Due Process Required Before Prisoners' Wages Seized
• Female Staff Removed From CA Youth Living Units
• Florida Juvenile Detainee Awarded $100,000 for Failure to Protect
• 6th Circuit: § 1983 Claims Against County Must Connect Policy, Violation
• Alabama Appellate Court Upholds Civil Immunity of Witness Testimony at Parole Hearing
• Court Lists Alternatives for Prisoners Seeking In Forma Pauperis
• Third Circuit: PHS Subject to Successor Liability, Relation-Back Statute Inapplicable
• U.S. Supreme Court Defines Retroactivity
• Civilly Committed Sexually Violent Predator Not Entitled to Anders Appellate Counsel Rights
• D.C. Circuit Reverses U.S. Gulf War POWs' $959 Million+ Prisoner Abuse Award
• Injured Georgia Prisoner's Negligence Claim Survives, Others Fail
• Jail Insurance Agreements Subject to Discovery
• Having Won Compensatory Damages in State Court, Suit for Punitives Dismissed
• Mandatory Supervision in Private Corrections Facility Allowed in Texas
• Prison Superintendent's Demotion for Misconduct Upheld
• Sua Sponte Dismissal for Factual Frivolity Appropriate Only if Facts Alleged Are Clearly Baseless
• First Amendment Protects Prisoners' Negative Statements About Prisons
• Prison Not Liable for Cold Cell
• Delay in Treating Spinal Injury Survives Summary Judgment
• Private Industries Employee Liable for using Disciplinary Hearing to Secure Restitution
• RI Enjoined from Indiscriminate Strip Searches
• Supreme Court: Right Of Access Applies To California Preliminary Hearings
• Supreme Court Holds No Liberty Interest In Visitation
• Virginia Court Defines Strip Search
• $1,000 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Discrimination Suit
• $1,200 Paid in WA Prisoner's Retaliation Claim
• $7,500 Paid in Beating of WA Female Prisoner
• $7,500 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Sexual/Racial Discrimination Suit
• $15,612 Paid in WA DOC Employee's Hostile Work Environment Claim
• $20,000 Paid in WA Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit
• $25,000 Paid in WA DOC's Employees Sexual/Racial Harassment Suit
• $48,500 Paid In WA DOC Employee's Harassment Suit
• $50,000 Paid in WA DOC Employees Sexual Discrimination Suit
• $62,000 Paid In WA DOC Employee's Race/Gender Discrimination Suit
• $75,000 Paid in Washington DOC Employee's Sexual Harassment Suit
• $175,000 Paid in WA Guard's Second Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Suit
• $440,000 Paid in Pennsylvania Detainee's Suicide
• FL Prisoner Entitled to Evidence Production and to Be Present at Disciplinary Hearing
• Sanctions Upheld, New Trial Ordered Over Use of Plaintiffs Sexual History at Trial
• Disciplinary Conviction, Loss of Good Time Upheld
• Filing Fee for State Habeas Corpus Unconstitutional
• FL Prisoner's Review of Mandamus Denial Requires Writ of Certiorari
• IL DOC Director Must Exercise Discretion on Good Time Awards
• $7,701 Paid in WA DOC Employees Discrimination Claim
• $10,000 Settlement for WA Prisoner Raped by Guard
• $10,750 Paid In WA Visitor's Slip and Fall
• $35,000 Award In Indiana Prison Guard Gender Discrimination Suit
• California County Pays $400,000 For Mentally Ill Prisoner's Suicide
• California Prisoner Assaulted By Deputies Awarded $135,000
• Male Guards Violate Female Prisoners Right to Privacy
• Evidentiary Hearing Required Prior to Preliminary Injunction
• Guard's Employment Rights Trump Prisoners' Privacy Rights
• Illegal Police Action Cognizable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• Indigents Cannot be Denied Post-Conviction Transcripts or Appeals
• Intercepted Conversation of Jail Visitor Not Protected
• Qualified Immunity for Maryland Officials Requiring Jewish Prisoner to Clean Cell on Sabbath
• Qualified Immunity for Sex Offender Cavity Searches
• Seventh Circuit Orders Disciplinary Hearing Due Process, Attorney Access, Legal Materials Returned
• Texas: Fifth Circuit Reinstates Epileptic Prisoner's Federal, State Claims
• Seventh Circuit Upholds RLUIPA as Constitutional Under Spending, Establishment Clauses
• $124,500 Paid in WA Guard's Harassment Suit
• Warm, Sanitary Condition Required in Cells; Fla. Jail Regulations Fail to Create Liberty Interest; Short Denial of Court Access Permissible
• WA Civil Servant Cannot Sue Under Contract Law Relevant to Employment
• Anonymous Jury, Failure to Disclose, Approved in Latin Kings' Trial
• Attorney Fee Awards Determined on Case Facts
• Attorney/Client Privileged Waived When Conversation Knowingly Recorded; Interstate Commerce Proven With De Minimus Effect
• Administrative Exhaustion Not Required Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• Jail Conditions Case Remanded for Determination of "Available" Administrative Remedies
• Judicial and Good Faith Immunity Available under § 1983
• Mailbox Rule Applies to Florida Grievance Procedure
• New York Prisoner Awarded $579,000 For Untreated Knee Injury
• No Subpoenas for Indigent Litigants
• Nurse Denied, Sheriff Granted, Qualified Immunity on Prisoner's Stroke
• Ohio Court Of Appeals Awards Injured Prisoner $100,000
• Florida Prisoner's Have Right to Bring Civil Actions
• New York Prisoner's Due Process Right's Violated At Disciplinary Hearing
• NJ Prisoner's Child Support Suspension Motion Inactive Until Release
• Notice of Rules Required Before Infraction
• Personal Capacity Suits Not Barred by 11th Amendment
• Polygraph for Accused Required After Informant Passed
• Prisoner Made Goods Must be Labeled for Interstate Transport
• Prisoners Entitled to Legal Research Access or Legal Assistance Program, But Not Both
• Prisoner's Transfer Enjoined Until Hearing to Determine Motivation
• Short-Term Sentence Extension Without Final Parole Revocation Hearing Unconstitutional
• Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel Requires Initiation of Formal Criminal Proceedings; Strapping Violent Arrestee to Bed Constitutional
• CA Supervisors Liable for Indemnifying Deputies from Punitive Damages
• WA DOC Settles Ferry and Fall Suit For $60,000
• $5,000 Paid in Wrongful WA Probation Warrant and Arrest
• $7,000 Paid in WA Prisoner's Suicide
• $1,400 Recovery Obtained in Fraudulent WA Money Transfer
• $3,500 Paid in Obstruction to Resolve Detainer and Denial of Notary By WA DOC
• $27,000 For Washington Prisoner's 2 1/2 Years Of Unlawful Imprisonment
• $35,000 For 14 Months Of Unlawful Imprisonment
• $2,000 For Erroneous Washington Parole Drug Test Result
• $1,882.80 For Falsely Labeling Prisoner As "Sex Offender"
• $50,000 For 8 Months Of Unlawful Imprisonment by Washington DOC
• $144,134 Paid in Male WA Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit
• AZ Prisoner's Denial of Transfer to Release Center by Changing His Sex-Offense Treatment Rating Sati
• DE FOIA's Citizens-Only Clause Declared Unconstitutional
• $7,000 For 20 Days Of Unlawful Imprisonment
• Alaska: 1997 Tort Reform Legislation Facially Constitutional
• Attorney-Client Privilege Breached
• Dispute Over Timely Filing Of § 2255 Motion Requires Evidentiary Hearing
• Elevated Charges, No Lab Analysis Does Not Violate Due Process
• Environmental, Sanitary Problems Violate Due Process
• Statute Requiring Remittance Of Forfeited Bond Violates Texas Constitution
• Written Statements Not A Substitute For Live Testimony
• Florida Jail Guard's Discrimination, Due Process Claims Dismissed
• $45,000 Settlement In Washington Parolee Rape Suit
• $47,500 Settlement In Washington Parolee Rape & Assault Suit
• $225,000 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Parolee Wrongful Death Suit
• Abstract Advocacy of Violence Protected Speech; Gang Conviction Reversed
• Alabama Prison Conditions Unconstitutional
• Dismissal for Failure to Exhaust Remedies Vacated
• No Liberty Interest in Virginia Jail Work Release
• California Prisoner's Death From Untreated Tonsilitis Results In $725,000 Settlement
• Correspondence Regulation Must be Reasonable and Necessary to Advancement of Purpose of Imprisonment
• Fifth Circuits Upholds Pugh v. Loch Injunction
• Florida: Federal Court Awards Jail Builder $2,300,677 In Contract Action
• Florida: Assaulted Escambia County Prisoner Awarded $1,000,000
• Florida Good Time Statute Ruled Ex Post Facto
• Former Prisoner's Cancer Death "Deeply Regrettable" But Not Constitutional Claim
• Mailroom Employee's Actions Not Due Process Violation
• New York: Malpractice Suit Over Guard's Death Settles For $2,500,000
• No Liberty Interest in Interstate Prison Transfer
• Oregon DSU Conditions Unconstitutional
• Prison Officials Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Interfering With Mail
• Prisoner Regarded as Having Impairment Entitled to ADA and RA Protection
• Washington: Jail Suicide Results In $150,000 Award
• Indiana Arrestee Strip Searches Unconstitutional
• Prisoners Have Right to Informed Consent and to Refuse Medical Treatment
• Private Prison State Actor for Liability Purposes
• Punitive Damages Cannot be Imposed Against Municipality
• Request at Trial Seeking Funds for DNA Expert Too Late; BOP Guard Convicted of Rape
• Dismissal with Prejudice Vacated; Plaintiff Ordered to Replead
• CA Prison Supervisors Not Entitled to Pay Raise Identical to that of Subordinates
• Saginaw County Jail Practices Unconstitutional
• Second Circuit Addresses Time Claim Accrues
• State Cannot Seize § 1983 Award to Satisfy Incarceration Costs
• State Law No Immunity for Attorney Fee Awards
• Supreme Court Holds Retaliation Claim Requires "But For" Test
• US Supreme Court Held Prisoners And Mental Patients Have Due Process Right To Be Protected
• US Supreme Court Held That Officials Are Not Qualifiedly Immune From Injunctive And Declaratory Reliefli
• Illinois Prisoner States Claim Against Prison Doctors
• Iowa: Due Process Not Violated In Disciplinary Proceedings
• Nevada: Imprisonment Is Affirmative Defense To Felony Nonsupport
• Right-To-Sue Letter Not Required For ADEA Claims
• Second Circuit Grants Plaintiff IFP Status
• US Supreme Court Held That Statutes Can Be Challenged Before Enforcement
• Overcrowding, Bad Prison Conditions Enjoined
• Prisoner Conviction Upheld For Constructive Possession Of Weapon In Cell
• Washington: Arrest For Tape Recording Police Unconstitutional, Police Liable
• Sixth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment Against Injured Prisoner
• Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Bivens Action Against Federal Agents
• $1,500 Paid in Beating By WA Guards
• $3,500 Paid in Obstruction to Resolve Detainer and Denial of Notary By WA DOC
• $12,500 Paid in WA Retaliation Claim By Guard
• $29,000 Attorney Fees and Costs Award in Procedural Due Process Suit and Failure to Provide Kosher Meals
• Former Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit Against CCA Dismissed
• $32,500 Awarded to Citizens for Louisiana Prisoner's Escape
• $217,500 Paid in WA DOC Sexual Harassment Claim
• Brother Sentenced in Attempted Escape of Federal Prisoner
• Conspiracy to Retaliate Against Jailhouse Lawyer Claim Stated; Equal Protection Claim Stated for Lifer Discrimination
• $31,125 Paid in WA Prison Nurse's Supervisory Harassment and Libel Suit
• Doctors Can Be Held Liable in Heat Death of Obese Mental Patient
• Second Circuit Discusses Establishment of Law for Qualified Immunity Purposes
• Dismissed §1983 Claim Reversed; Amendment Should Have Been Allowed
• District Court Reversed; Warden's Defamation Suit Ordered Dismissed
• Mentally Ill PA Prisoner Forced to Accept Medical Treatment to Prevent Death
• Muslim Prisoners Awarded $9,000 for Religious Suppression
• New York District Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to Sheriff
• Passing Through Metal Detector Partly Disrobed Not "Strip Search"
• Jail Closed Due To Living Conditions, Failure To Comply
• No Summary Judgment in Strip Search Suit While Discovery Underway
• Disciplinary Charges Immaterial to Criminal Trial for Same Incident
• Prisoner's Second Complaint Frivolous, Appeal Not, on Claim Preclusion
• Punishment Over Correspondence Violates First and Fourteenth Amendment, Damages Appropriate
• Seven-Day Bread Diet States Eighth Amendment Claim; Dismissal Vacated
• Summary Judgment on Religious Exercise Affirmed in Part and Reversed in Part
• Transfer Of Prisoners' Property To Sheriff Illegal
• W.VA Prisoner Forced to Receive Medical Treatment to Prevent Death, But Have Right to Refuse Treatment When Death is Inevitable
• Policy Requiring Court Order For Law Library Access Unconstitutional
• AEDPA Time Limitations Not Tolled by Motion to Reopen Appeal
• City Liable For Police Rape, $300,000 In Damages Awarded
• Criminal Contempt Requires Criminal Procedure Rights
• Double Bunking, Mail and Visitation Rules, Searches Constitutional
• Illegal Search Precludes Policeman's Qualified Immunity; Affirms Plaintiff's Summary Judgment
• Injunctive Relief Granted For Pregnant NJ Jail Prisoners
• Massachusetts Prisoner Files Law Suit For Being Beaten By Prison Guards
• No Retroactive Suspension Of Worker Compensation In AZ
• Psychological Coercion Not Legal Component Of Involuntary Servitude
• Punishment for Religious Fasting States Claim
• Supreme Court Issues Use Of Force Standard In Riot Cases
• Several Necessary Components Of Involuntary Servitude
• Sixth Circuit Permits Bivens action Against BOP for IAD Violation
• $5,040 Awarded in Federal Prison Stabbing
• $24,000 Paid in WA Disability Termination Suit
• Anti-Picketing Ordinance Unconstitutional; Anti-Noise Ordinance Not Vague or Overbroad
• Arrestee Stated §1983 Claim Against Coroner; Heightened Pleading Standard Overruled
• Protesters' Sentences, Probation Conditions, Upheld; Special Assessments Reversed
• Protesters' Sentences, Probation Conditions, Upheld; Special Assessments Reversed
• Ban on Public Speaking While Masked Held Unconstitutional
• COA Denied; Stun Belt Claim Barred by Teague v. Lane
• § 1983 Complaint Not Frivolous, Stated Claim, Can Be Amended
• Gotti's Pretrial Detention Without Bail Warranted, PLRA Question Moot
• Missouri Prisoner Awarded $16,000 In § 1983 Use-Of-Force Action
• New York Prisoner Awarded $295,000 For Knee, Ankle Injury
• Daughters Of Woman Killed By Furloughed Indiana Prisoner Settle For $900,000
• BOP Work Release Appeal Dismissed When Defendant Still on Bail
• Federal Court Reaches Merits of Michigan Disciplinary Habeas
• Prisoner's Disciplinary Conviction for Possession of Unauthorized Medication Affirmed
• Prisoner's Dismissed § 1983 Assault Claim Against TransCor America Reinstated
• Reduced Likelihood of Parole Does Not constitute a Penalty
• Supreme Court Addresses Mail, Good-Time, Legal Aid, Disciplinary Issues
• Kansas Prisoner's Sexually Motivated Behavior In Custody Leads To Sex Offender Classification
• Parolee Sex Offender Classification Without Conviction Requires Heightened Procedural Safeguards
• Monetary Sanctions Against DOC Commissioner Violates Alabama Constitution
• Parole Review Challenge Cognizable under Federal Habeas Statute
• Virginia Supreme Court Resolves Administrative Exhaustion Issues in VDOC Sexual Assault Suit
• ADOC Director's Educational Background Ordered Disclosed in Medical Suit
• California Prisoner Wins PI For Liver Transplant Evaluations
• Unconstitutional to Hold Wisconsin Prisoner Beyond Mandatory Release Date
• Some Evidence Required In "Some Evidence" Standard by Bob Williams
• Ninth Circuit: Excessive Use of Force in Cell Extraction Defeats Qualified Immunity by John Dannenberg
• 1,300 Days in Segregation Atypical Under Sandin
• 2nd Circuit Approves Inspection of Outgoing Business Mail
• 5th Circuit Upholds Sexually Explicit Publication Ban
• $35,000 Paid in WA Jail Illegal Strip Search
• Attorney Fee Award Under § 1988 Not Recoverable from Nonparty
• Attorney Fees Awarded in Long-Running Jail Class Action Suit
• California: County Prisoner Injured Knee In Fall, Awarded $96,000
• Canadian Crime Victim Settles Halfway House Suit for $215,000
• Case Remanded for Expungement of Seg Record and Damages Hearing
• Confessions Made in Therapy Protected Under 5th Amendment
• Constitutional Issue Not Required for Attorney Fees Award
• Contact Visits/Presence at Shakedown Not Required
• Court Orders Minimum Jail Staffing at Harris County (TX) Jail
• Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Needs Actionable
• Dismissal of Assault Claim Affirmed
• Dismissal, Summary Judgment Against Prisoner's Medical Claims Affirmed
• Wisconsin Prisoner's ADA Claim Proceeds; Counsel Appointed
• Private Corporations Subject to Florida's Public Records Act
• Florida Sex Offenders Must Pay for Court Order Treatment
• Habeas Corpus Sole Remedy For Speedier Release
• Prisoner Convicted of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
• Only $1.00 in Nominal Damages Despite Multiple Illegal Acts
• Injunction Against California DOC Precluded By PLRA, Turner
• Judgment Vacated in Aikens v. Lash
• Lay Advocate Case Affirmed in Part
• Police Officers' Names Not Exempt Under WA's Open Records Act
• Prisoner Entitled to Lay Advocate in Disciplinary Transfer
• Prisoners' Motion and Petition Granted, Judgment Vacated
• Warden's Order Forbidding Letters to Court Questioned
• Montana S.Ct. Rules on Attorney Malpractice
• U. S. Marshals Need Not Transport State Prisoners to Court
• Retaliation for Prisoner's Complaint is Unconstitutional
• Double Bunking Not Allowed In NJ Jail
• Kansas Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction on In-Cell Book Cap
• Eleventh Circuit Defines Privacy Act Elements
• $7,516.95 Awarded For 89 Days of False Imprisonment
• Absurdity Exception Applied to PLRA Attorney Fee Cap in Pre-incarceration Claim
• Ad Seg for Death-Eligible Detainee Is Unconstitutional
• Dismissal, Strike in Prisoner's §1983 Suit Partly Reversed
• Qualified Immunity May Not Be Pled For the First Time in a Motion For Reconsideration
• OH Prison Guards Liable for Destroying Prisoner's TV
• Certified Court Records Not Hearsay
• Alaska Prisoners' Disciplinary Hearing Rights
• IL Guard's Challenge to Her Dismissal Held Untimely
• CA Prisoner Properly Convicted of Conspiracy to Furnish Controlled Substance to a Prisoner
• PA Pre-Trial Detainee's Transfer to State Prison Held Unconstitutional
• Political-Party Discrimination Rampant in Puerto Rico; Damage Award Upheld
• SD Conviction for Spitting on Prison Guard Affirmed
• WA State Owes No Duty to Ensure That Foster Kids Don't Harm the General Public
• L.A. County Probation Department Employee Awarded $95,000 for Discriminatory Forced Retirement
• Massachusetts Prisoners' Chemical Toilet Claim Proceed to Trial for Damages
• South Dakota Juvenile Detention Center's Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional
• Rules Modeled on Ten Commandments Violate Establishment Clause; Sheriff Denied Qualified Immunity
• Iowa Supreme Court Holds Prison Sex Offender Screening Process Constitutional
• Rooker-Feldman Doctrine Bars Federal Review of Michigan Indigent Filing Fees Statute As Applied by Matthew Clarke
• Michigan Doctor's Termination of Prisoner's Suicide Watch Upheld
• PLRA Exhaustion-of-Remedies Requirement Applies to Private Prison
• No Immunity for Denying Transsexual Prisoner Treatment under Unconstitutional Policy
• Dismissal with Prejudice Proper For Financial Misrepresentation
• Eighth Circuit Upholds Judgment Against CMS For Delayed Dental Care
• Colorado: City Pays $240,000 to Victims of Serial Rapist
• CO Prisoners Need Not Obtain Post-Conviction Relief Before Filing Malpractice Suit Against Trial Lawyers
• $100,000 Settlement Recommended For County's Contract Breach
• $201,000 Settlement in Death of California Prisoner with Hepatitis C
• Former PHS Employee Awarded $200,000 for Retaliation, Age Discrimination
• Massachusetts: City Potentially Liable For Officer's Negligence
• 9-11 Detainees' Suit Survives Government's Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke
• New Mexico: $50,000 Settlement For False Arrest, Unconstitutional Strip Search
• CCA Settles Wrongful Death Suit in Texas For $60,000
• WA Restitution Statue Amendments Retroactive
• WA Prisoner Gets Major Infraction Dismissed After Filing PRP
• Texas Prison Guards Who Murdered a Convict Sent to Federal Prison
• Silence can Constitute "Waiver" of Witness at Disciplinary Hearings
• Public Defender not Actor Under Color of State Law for Withdrawing from Appeal
• Costs Improperly Denied to Prevailing Prisoner
• Retaliatory Keep-Lock for Assisting Prisoner with Grievance Defeats Dismissal Motion
• Private Medical Services Skirmish Over INS Contract
• Property Destruction and Retaliation Claims Reversed
• Prisoner Murder Conviction Reversed to Consider Hallucination Defense
• OK to Feed Hunger striking Illinois Prisoner
• Failure to Protect Federal Informant's Wife Not Actionable
• Escape Begins When Prisoner Departs Custody
• New York Prisoner Receives 25 to Life for Throwing Urine/Feces on Guard
• Violence as a Condition of Confinement Violates Eighth Amendment
• Female Only Guard Posts Approved
• $500 Award in Prisoner Medical Neglect Claim
• $500 Award in Failure to Protect NY Prisoner from Assault
• $200 Awarded To Prisoner Wrongfully Held On Keeplock Status
• $200 Awarded To NY Prisoner in Slip and Fall Suit
• Canadian Court Awards Female Prisoner $10,000 For Illegal Search
• $180 Award in Prisoner Excessive Keeplock Confinement Suit
• $135 Award in Prisoner Wrongful Confinement Suit
• $1 Award Suit By NY Jail Prisoner Assaulted By Prison Guard
• Class Action Allowed in County Jail Strip Search Cases
• $194.50 Awarded To Prisoner in Loss of Property Suit
• University of Texas Medical Branch Not Subject to Federal Suit for Not Diagnosing Cancer
• MI Jail Not Liable for Heroin Addict's Suicide
• Jail Has No Duty to Warn of MRSA
• $106,500 Awarded to Whistle Blowing FL Jail Nurse
• 9th Circuit Reversed SJ for Non-Exhaustion
• $380 Awarded for fall from NYDCS Transport Van
• FBI Not Liable for Wrongful Incarceration of Federal Prisoner for Eight Years
• Release of Police Personnel Files Not Due Process Violation
• Prisoner Suicide Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Settled for Deliberate Indifference
• Prison Employees Clearing Security Constitutes Paid Work Time
• Montana State Prisoner Not Entitled to Disability And Rehabilitation Benefits While Incarcerated
• Ga. County Not Liable for Sheriff's Policies
• State Appointment and Compensation of Attorneys in Federal Action Upheld
• $10,000 Awarded In New York Prisoner Work Injury Suit
• $4,500 Awarded In New York Prisoner Assault Suit
• District Court Adopts Prison Official's Plan To Reduce Violence
• California Habeas Corpus Proper Remedy to Challenge Work Assignment Restriction, But not to Award Back Pay
• Prisoner Denied Workers' Compensation for Injury In State Community Job
• NY Prisoner Awarded $75 for Fall From Bunk
• WA Early Release Credits No Substitute for Good Time Lost for Disciplinary Reasons
• California: "Mailbox Rule" Extended to Civil Complaints Against Public Entity by John E Dannenberg
• Incarceration Term alone Insufficient to Terminate Florida Prisoner's Parental Rights
• New Wrongful Death Trial Prompts $600,000 Settlement; Judge Gave Faulty Jury Instructions, Finds Excessive Force
• California Sex-Offender Registration Requirement Held "Not Punishment" by John Dannenberg
• $276,163 Award of Costs and Fees in Iowa Juvenile Detention Case
• Parole Rule Ex Post Facto That Changes Revocation Standard
• Prison Psychologist Not Liable for Failing to Treat Suicidal, Feces Eating Prisoner
• NE Prisoner May Intervene in Child's Name Change Proceeding
• NY DOC Website Posting Not Defamatory
• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Of Prison Teacher Taken Hostage Settled for $1.3 Million
• State Seizes Child Of Sex Offender Father/Drug Abuser Mother
• BOP Early Release Withdrawal Arbitrary And Capricious; Release Ordered
• Pilot Light Burn Nets NY Prisoner $225
• $98,500 Settlement In Jail Negligence Suit-Prisoner Beating
• Excessive Force Against Detainee By Police Upheld
• Muslim Head Scarf Lawsuit Dismissed After Prison Policy Change
• No Supervisory Liability for Forwarding Complaints about Conditions to Others
• NY Prisoner Awarded $150 for Wrongful SHU Placement
• Texas Prisoners Still Have Limited Right to Appear in Civil Cases
• WA Agencies Liable For Fees & Penalties To Parties Who Prevail Against Them In PDA Cases
• FL Cops Sic Dog On Suspect; Court Remits Damage Award
• Prisoner's Records Request Tolls Statue of Limitations
• NY Prisoner Awarded $350 After Being Assaulted By His Cell Mate
• WA Reasonable Doubt Instruction Re-Defined in Prison Escape
• FL Country Club Settles For $475,000 With Golf Cart Driver
• $98,500 Settlement in Jail Negligence Suit for Prisoner Beating
• Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Tort Claim Act Notice Requirement by Matthew Clarke
• Failure to Notify Warrants New Parole Hearing for Washington Prisoner
• Federal Motions for Attorney Fees Must be Filed Within 14 Days of Disposition of Post-Trial Motions
• Dismissal of Minnesota Sex Offender's Search and Seizure Claim Upheld
• IL Guards' Single Instance of Indifference to Prisoner's Medical Needs Not Unconstitutional
• IL Guards May Withhold Showers and Meals Until Prisoner Complies With Prison Rules
• MO Prisoner's 1983 Action to Correct Parole Record Dismissed as Frivolous
• NCDOC Discriminates Against Female Guards
• NY Mental Patient Liable For Cost of Treatment Even Though She Is Without the Ability to Pay
• SD Prisoner's 1983 Action Dismissed for Not Moving to Add Parties Within the Allotted Time
• WA Conviction of Possession of a Controlled Substance Affirmed
• WA Guards Enjoined From Opening Legal Mail Outside Prisoners' Presence
• WA Jail Time for Consecutive Sentences Cannot Apply to Both Sentences
• WA Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Interrogation Without a Lawyer or Miranda Warnings
• Federal Parole Condition Denying Parolee Contact with His Minor Daughter Upheld
• Negligence Insufficient to Make Prison Officials Liable
• Kentucky: Women Sexually Harassed By Jail Officials Awarded $230,000 Each
• Illinois Prisoners Win Ex Post Facto Good Time Claim
• Alaska: 1991Tort Reform Legislation Facially Constitutional
• Supreme Court Sets Summary, Judgment Standard of Proof
• No Presentence Entitlement to NJ Prison Commutation Credit
• Prisoner Telephone Calls In County Jail Can Be Recorded
• California Guard Charged with Excessive Force in County Prisoner Death
• Federal Restitution Order Upheld by Different Sentencing Court
• Eye Damage Cause by TB Medication Suit Dismissed for Failure to Exhaust
• Washington: $260,000 to Family of Woman Killed By Escaped Prisoner
• Disabled Prisoner Claim Not Actionable Under Federal Civil Rights Action
• No Unconstitutional Deprivation for County Jail Overcrowding
• Seizure of Prisoner's Pretrial Discovery Materials Upheld
• Preemptive Prisoner Assault Not Justified As Self Defense
• Prisoner Has No Right to Medication Accommodation by Bob Williams
• Final Settlement Approved In Indiana Strip Search Suit
• Sixth Circuit Dismisses Tennessee Jail Officials' Qualified Immunity Request
• Tenth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Utah Prisoner's Conditions Claim
• Third Circuit Upholds Forced Feeding of Pennsylvania Prisoner
• Kansas Federal Court Upholds In-Cell Book Restriction, But Continues Injunction
• Washington's Early Release Credit System Unconstitutional Because It Discriminates Against Poor People by David C Fathi
• Illinois Jail Prisoner Beaten By Gang Members Awarded $775,000
• No Liberty Interest in Washington Extended Family Visits
• Wisconsin Prisoner Starved As Punishment Awarded $1.25 Million by Michael Rigby
• 7th Circuit Holds $60,000 Illinois Strip Search Award Not Excessive
• $334,432 Award for Woman Raped In Georgia Jail
• Alabama Prisoner Assaulted By Guard Awarded $100
• Florida Prison Visitor Awarded $43,000 for Slip and Fall
• Missouri Attaches Prisoner's Award Against CMS, 8th Cir Remands
• New Jersey Juvenile Raped By Guards Settles For $500,000
• New York Prisoner Assaulted By Guards Awarded $300
• New York Prisoner Injured In Fall From Bunk Awarded $75
• Prisoner Crippled In Texas Jail Settles For $2.25 Million
• WI Prisoner Unconstitutionally Denied Correspondence with Sister-In-Law
• Combined Shiite and Sunni Religious Services Upheld
• Private Vendor Must Comply With Florida's Public Records Act
• Sixth Circuit Remands Bazetta, Yet Again
• Illinois Man Awarded $750,000 for 15 Days Wrongful Imprisonment
• Commercial Speech Protection Extends to Sender & Recipient
• Dismissal for Want of Jurisdiction is Judgment With Prejudice in Texas by Matthew Clarke
• Unsentenced Convicted Prisoners Subjected to Sandin v. Conner
• Ohio Prisoner Awarded $90.50 For Lost Property, Filing Fee
• Pennsylvania Prisoner Allowed Untimely Appeal Of Disciplinary Decision
• Washington Prisoner Prevails In Alleged Failure To Register As Sex Offender
• Denial Of Disability Benefits For Intent to Flee Questioned
• Denial of Vegan Diet Meets PLRA's Physical Injury Requirement
• Michigan Prisoner Wearing Leg Irons During Jury Trial Harmless Error
• No Forfeiture of Good Time for Frivolous Habeas in Texas by Matthew Clarke
• Prisoner Guilty Of Introduction Of Marijuana Into County Jail
• Ohio Prison Liable For Loss Of Prisoner Property
• Actual Innocence Required in Washington Criminal Malpractice Actions
• Prisoner Civil Rights Claim For Harassment, Retaliation, Feces in Food And Excessive Force Denied
• Searching Vehicle Of Prison Visitor Suspected Of Illegal Drug Possession Upheld
• Selective BOP Prosecution Based On Race Unproven
• Random Searches Of Pennsylvania Prison Visitors' Vehicles Held Constitutional
• $641,000 Settlement In Beating Death Of Alabama Jail Prisoner
• Assaulted New York Jail Prisoner Awarded $330,000
• Estate of Murdered Tennessee Prisoner Awarded $75,000
• Federal Prisoner's Estate Awarded $78,000 for Suicide
• No Due Process Violation For Termination Of Incarcerated Father's Parental Rights
• Missing Finger Tips Cost Washington DOC $2,500
• New York Prisoner Awarded $6,000 For Hernia
• New York Prisoner Awarded $12,500 For Inadequate Ulcer Treatment
• New York Prisoner Awarded $125,000 for Slip and Fall Injury
• New York Prisoner Awarded $164 For Improper Housing Assignment
• New York Prisoner Injured On Fence Awarded $15,000
• Pennsylvania Prisoner Awarded $5,000 for Crushed Finger
• Washington Prisoner Awarded $16,695 For Back Injury
• Prison Assault Conviction Reversed Due to Faulty Jury Instruction
• Fourth Circuit Vacates Maryland Beating Verdict
• Court Approves Continued Pennsylvania Prisoner's Segregation Beyond 21 Years
• District Court Erred in Dismissing Suit for Indigent Prisoner's Failure to Pay Filing Fees
• Delaware Medical Contractor's Policies Deliberately Indifferent
• Misdemeanor Conviction for Protesting on Jail Property Constitutional
• Sex Offender Can Be Compelled to Admit Crimes for Entry to Prison Program
• Secretary Error Allows for Late California Tort Claim
• Texas Diabetic Prisoner Blacks Out, Guards Not Deliberately Indifferent
• Deceased PA Prisoner's Medical Records Disclosable
• FL Prisoner's Suit Against Prison Health Care Providers Timely Filed
• Indigent NY Prisoner's Action Commenced When Clerk Received Pleadings
• Montana Juvenile Prisoners' Files Disclosable for Purposes of Litigation
• NY Mentally Jail Ill Prisoner Beaten By Guard Wins $500,000
• Ohio Prisoner-Medical-Co-Pay Law Retroactive
• PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case
• Washington Juvenile Dependency Records Not Subject To Disclosure Under PDA
• New York AIDS Patient Jailed in Unsanitary Conditions Wins $1,300,000
• Fourth Circuit Discusses Standard of Review in Prisoner Assault Cases
• GA Prisoners Seeking to Appeal the Denial of a Motion to Intervene Must Apply for Interlocutory Review
• NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983
• MI Prisoner's § 1983 Action Dismissed for Claiming Only Emotional Injury
• WA Guard's Denial of Out-of-Cell Exercise to Prisoner for 105 Days States 8th Amendment Claim
• IL DOC is Not a Joint Public Employer
• Washington DOC Exonerated in Negligent Supervision Case
• Federal Probation Officers Can't Order Probationers to Drug Treatment
• TX Private Prison Guard Can't Sue Under § 1983 For Bogus Employment Termination
• Arkansas Jailers Not Responsible for Prisoner's Beating
• OH DORC Liable for Property Damage Done by Prisoners
• BOP Must Disclose Part of Investigation Manual
• IL Prisoner Fails to Show Unreasonable Application of Federal Law on Habeas Review
• OH Prisoner Wins $50 in Personal Injury Suit
• WA State Properly Filed Civil Commitment Petition Two Days Before Prisoner's Prison Release Date
• Guard's Interference With Arizona Prisoner's Receipt of Prescribed Special Diet May Violate 8th Amendment
• Guard Beating Nets $18,000 for Florida Jail Prisoner
• PA Long-Arm Statute Reaches Out-of-State Civil Rights Violations in TransCor Suit
• Child Visitation Permitted; Receipt of Non Publisher Publications Banned
• Court Adopts Definitions of Tape Recordings
• Clerk Not Entitled to Interest on Principal in Fund
• Default Entered Against Guards for Failing to Answer Summons Served by Prisoner
• District Judge Orders Measures to Ease Overcrowding
• Ex-Prisoners' are not a Protected Class
• Independent Operator Not Necessary for Tape Recorded Deposition
• Liability for Sheriff's Hiring Decisions
• No Due Process Hearing Needed In Prison Transfer
• Non-Stenographic Depositions May Not Require Independent Operator
• Party in Civil Rights Case Not Entitled to Witness Fees, But Non-Parties Are
• Paying Taxes Not Entitlement to Vote
• Qualified Immunity Not Applicable to Private Defendants
• Prisoners Union Cannot Hold Meetings at a State Prison
• State Law Creates Liberty Interest
• Stay of Action Must be Sought to Exhaust Administrative Remedies
• WA County Jails "Good Time" Policy Constitutional
• Attorney/Client Privilege Voided by Including Third Persons in Conversation
• New Trial Ordered Over Guard's Negligence In Texas Jail Prisoner's Suicide
• WA Parole Board Must Adhere to Its Own Procedures
• Broadcast Company Denied Special Access to Jail
• Counsel Cannot Direct Witness Not to Answer Questions
• Court Grants New Trial to Uneducated Pro Se Litigant
• Fla. Mandamus Petition Challenging DR Must be Filed Within 30 Days of Grievance Denial
• No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings
• No Visitation Type Restriction for Possession of Marijuana
• Tape Recorded Depositions' Intent: Cost Efficiency
• Tape Recorded Depositions Useful to Prisoners
• Telephonic Depositions Useful to Prisoners
• Visitor has Right to Due Process Hearing Before Termination of Visit Privileges
• Writ Deemed Filed When Handed to Prison Officials
• Injunction and Contempt Sanction Issued Against Disciplinary Proceedings Due Process Violations
• Pre-Trial Detainees Must Pay Cost of Expert Testimony
• Retaliatory Harassment and Transfer of Law Clerk Nets $2,100 Award
• Security Threat Must be Shown to Transfer NY Prisoner Elected as Representative
• State Prisoner Transfer To Federal Prison Constitutional
• Washington Court's Authority to Order Community Custody Limited
• Offer of Judgment Must Include Attorney Fees
• California Prisoner Wins Ban on Dungeons and Dragons; Attorney Fees Awarded
• Pennsylvania Prisoner Not Required to File Grievance Before Suing Where Prison Regulations Preclude the Grievance
• Dismissal of Complaint Seeking Vegetarian Diet and Religious Beads Reversed
• Nebraska Prisoner Not in Private Prison Denied Standing to Challenge State Private Prison Contracting Act
• Kansas Prisoner Not Allowed to Attend Disciplinary Hearing States Habeas Claim
• TX Transsexual Prisoner's Lawsuit Seeking Hormone Therapy Dismissed
• Federal Prisoner's Retaliation and Pain Suit Reinstated
• Dead Illinois Prisoner's Representative Filed Suit Too Late
• Kansas Parolee-Supervision-Fee Upheld
• New York Prisoner's Interference-With-Legal-Mail Claim Improperly Dismissed
• Constitutional Violation Found by State Court Doesn't Create Collateral Estoppel in Federal Action
• New Jersey Prison Doctors Pay Over $5k for Concealing Documents
• Indiana Publication Ban Struck Down
• No Absolute Immunity for Illegal Wiretap; Qualified Immunity Standard Issued
• Private Possession of Obscene Material Not a Crime
• MO Ad-Seg Regulations Create Liberty Interest
• No Immunity for Retaliatory Work Release Discipline
• Release-Dismissal Agreements Bars Further Law Suits
• Standard Set for Violation of Free Exercise Clause
• Washington Appeals Court Reverses SJ on Negligent Supervision Claim
• FBI Mob Murder Claim Filed Too Late
• Prison Disciplinary Action Does Not Bar Later Criminal Proceedings
• $50,171 for Indiana False Arrest and 30 Hours Confinement
• Arkansas Guards Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Rape of Female Prisoner
• Arkansas Jailers Not Responsible for Prisoner's Beating
• Chileans Allowed to Sue for Wrongful Death in U.S. 26 Years After Family Member was Slain
• CT Guard Denied Sovereign Immunity for Harassing Prisoner
• CA Officials Immune from False Arrest Suits
• CA Prisoner's Allegation of Several Months Delay in Treating His Kidney Stones States 8th Amendment
• Inevitable Arrest Precludes Downward Departure Sentence for Escape
• Florida Sexual Predators Act Upheld
• MN Prison Medical Consent Decree Still Active
• Missouri DNA Profiling Program Expanded
• Missouri Mental Health Records Must Be Disclosed
• NY Public Defenders' Pay Kept Low
• Texas Prisoner's Rights Not Violated by Not Allowing Him to Represent Himself at Trial for Tattooing
• Ex California Female Guards Subjected to Sexual Harassment, Retaliation
• Washington Sex Offender Release & Supervision Statute Explained
• CT Prisoner Wins $5,500 in Suit for Damages Sustained in Transport Van Accident, Affirmed on Appeal
• Washington Guard Fails to Establish Employer Retaliation
• Michigan Law Bars Tort Claims If Intoxication Causes 50% Or More Responsibility On Injured Party.
• Amended Complaint Timely Under Prison Mailbox Rule
• Suitable Residence Parole Condition Rational in NY
• New York: $600 For 60 Days Wrongful Confinement In Segregation
• Missouri Prisoner's Allegation that Prison Doctor Ignored His Constant Complaints of Pain May State 8th Amendment Claim
• No Summary Judgment On Disciplinary Diet Claim
• Individual Class Action Settlement Notice Not Required
• Illinois Residential Picketing Statute Unconstitutional
• Segregation Conditions at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Not Unconstitutional
• Indiana Law Prevents Prisoners From Direct Access to Personal Medical Records
• Deposition Testimony Admissible in Beating Trial
• Denial of Class Certification Reversed
• New York Prisoner's Disciplinary Sanctions Vacated
• $125,000 Awarded in Illinois Prisoner's Rape; Jury Instruction Explaining Directed Verdict Harmless
• Escape Triggers Texas Statute of Limitations for Civil Case Filing
• Qualified Immunity Denied to Prison Pharmacist That Refused to Fill Prisoner's Prescriptions
• Eighth Circuit Refuses to Stay Mandate in Doe v. Miller Pending Certiorari
• Expulsion from Sex Offender Treatment Program Implicates Liberty Interest by Bob Williams
• Counsel Appointed to Brief Questions of PLRA Total Exhaustion and Sandin Confinement Conditions for
• $380 Awarded for Fall from NYDOCS Transport Van
• Pennsylvania Criminal Restitution Debt Not Dischargeable in Bankruptcy Action
• Kansas Strip-Search Suit Subject to Three-Year Statute of Limitation
• $60,000 Paid in Failure Florida Jail Prisoner to Protect Claim
• $50,000 Paid in Texas Improper Housing Classification/Assault
• Regret Expression Issued for Improper Arrest
• $95,000 Award in Excessive Force on Quadriplegic
• $27,000 Paid in Florida Jail Prisoner's Sexual Harassment by Guard
• $39,000 Awarded in Florida Jail Prisoner's Slip and Fall
• Florida Prisoner's Respiratory Injury Nets $112,000
• $150,000 Paid in Guard's Assault of Florida Jail Prisoner
• $30,000 Paid for Broadcasting Florida Jail Strip-Search
• $4,000 Paid for Retaliation Claim
• Burned Foot Nets $9,000 for Florida Jail Prisoner
• Prisoner Found Negligent, Ordered to Pay $40,000 in Attorney Fees
• $600,000 Verdict in Excessive Force Case to Ohio Jail Prisoner
• $50.00 Awarded in Due Process Violation
• $34,000 Paid in Texas Prisoners' Retaliation Claim
• $100,000 Awarded in Dental Negligence
• $1,000 Awarded in Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim
• $5,500 Awarded in Connecticut Transport Accident
• Indiana DOC Employee's 4th Amendment Rights Not Violated by Mandatory Psych Evaluation
• New York Guard's Appeal Dismissed for Lack of Hypothetical Assumption
• New York Prisoners Get Credit for Jail Time Spent in Other States
• Wisconsin Prisoner's Interference-With-Mail Suit Mooted by Policy Change
• Philadelphia Settles Negligent Supervision Suit for $3.5 Million by Michael Rigby
• Job Discrimination Due to Disability from Hepatitis-C Treatment Violates California Worker's Rights
• Contract Doctor Negligently Liable As Agent Of State DOC
• $1 Verdict in BOP Retaliation Case
• $1,660,000 Verdict for False Arrest
• $70,000 Verdict in Georgia Prisoner's Assault by Guards
• $105,000 Verdict in Michigan Illegal Imprisonment
• $225,000 Settlement in Rape by Idaho Prison Guard
• $145,000 Verdict in Retaliatory Transfer Case
• Unreasonable Search Claim Survives Summary Judgment
• One Meal Per Day May Not Be Adequate For Kentucky State Prisoner
• Summary Judgment For Free Exercise Of Religion Upheld: Untimely Appeal Dismissed
• Criminal History Trumps Reporter Liability For Denial Of Parole
• Tenth Circuit Reverses Disciplinary Convictions For Pursuing Post-conviction Relief
• Oklahoma Prisoner's Federal Civil Rights Complaint For Alleged Rapes Denied
• $1 Awarded To Utah Prisoner After Untimely Appeal Fails
• $900,000 Settlement In Eugene, Oregon Police Sexual Assault Civil Rights Case
• $221,000 Settlement For 8 Year Old Jailed In Alleged New Mexico School Misconduct
• $250,500 Verdict in Illinois Retaliation Claim
• $303,113 Verdict in Negligence Failure to Train Arizona Worker Case
• 8th Circuit Remands Damages Seizure for Reconsideration under Hankins v. Finnel
• Alaska Supreme Court Reverses SJ, Orders Continuance to Prisoner
• Documents Supporting SJ Are Judicial Documents and Disclosable
• Fed BOP Can Declare State Prison a Place of Fed Incarceration
• Texas Jury Verdict Finds Civil Rights Violations but Awards $0 for Assault
• Kansas Prisoner Convicted of Sodomy Entitled to DNA Testing
• MA Mental Health Patient Wins Over $1.5 M for Beating by Hospital Staff
• Minnesota Sex Predator Not Entitled to Jury Trial before Being Civilly Committed
• Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Mail Rule Challenges
• NY Jail Must Release Suicide Reports
• NJ Prisoner's § 1983 Action Against Parole Board and Its Agents Dismissed as Incognizable
• Oregon Prisoners Confined For Mental Illness Causing Sexual Deviancy Entitled to Adequate Treatment
• Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Race/Exposure Claims
• TN Newspaper Entitled to Full Attorney Fees in Actions to Compel Disclosure of Public Records
• WI DOC Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Holding Prisoner Past His Release Date
• WI Mother's Incarceration Not Enough to Terminate Her Parental Rights
• Qualified Immunity Upheld on Supermax Mental Illness Aggravation
• Michigan Court Requires Total Administrative Exhaustion of All Claims
• Attack on White Supremacist Prisoner States Claim
• Class Certification Discussed
• Class Certification Explained
• Discovery of Absent Class Members Not Allowed
• Total Exhaustion Required Under PLRA
• Supreme Court Bans Drug Testing of Pregnant Women
• Supreme Court Strikes Down CSC Ban on Welfare Suits
• WI Transfer to CCA Prison Upheld
• Police Not Liable For Ban on Attorney Calls
• Shower Fall May Implicate 8th Amendment
• Leave to Amend Denied in NY Retaliation Suit
• Defense Verdict in Illinois Brutality, Cold Case Upheld
• Requesting Party May Be Required to Pay Discovery Copying Costs
• Police Investigative Records Ordered Disclosed in Suit
• Failure to Timely Object Waives Discovery Objection
• Interrogatory Limit Increases
• Expert Witness Can Change Opinion At Any Time
• Attorney Client Privilege Must Be Assented in Timely Manner
• Numerosity Supports Class Certification
• Class Certified in Customs Strip Search Suit
• Deponents Must Explain Changes to Testimony
• Mental Exam Barred in Discrimination Suit
• Class Numerosity Satisfied With 40 or More Members
• Rule 68 Offers Not Allowed in Class Actions
• Class Certification Granted in Disparate Impact Case
• NY Court Certifies Class Action of Pay Searched Minorities
• Rule 68 Offer May Conflict With Class Action Rule
• Suit Can Be Settled Before Class is Certified
• Class Certified in CT Syringe Exchange Search Suit
• Class Action With 30-40 Members Certified
• 14 Deputies Who Kill Person in Courtroom Not Entitled to Judicial Immunity
• Police Rape Plaintiff Allowed to Sue Anonymously
• Sex Offender Treatment Records Not Subject to Discovery
• Police Misconduct Reports Must be Disclosed in Discovery
• Family Court Judge Immune From Suit
• CA Peer Review Records Not Privileged in Jail Death Suit
• Time Limit for Service Extended in Immigration Suit
• Supreme Court Holds Damage Awards to be Reviewed De Novo
• Failure to Treat Mild Paid Doesn't State Claim
• Court Denies Defendant Attorney Fees in Prisoner Death Case
• No Municipal Liability for Police Beating
• Brutality Case Against Kansas Jail Dismissed
• No Liability in Scalding Attack on Seg Prisoner
• Delaware Force Suit Dismissed
• Stun Gun Claim Properly Exhausted
• Suit over Door Injury Medical Co-Pay Dismissed
• Jail Crowding Alone Not Unconstitutional
• Courts Can Enforce Stipulated Settlements
• Suicide Suits Must be Filed by Decedent's Estate
• Native American Religious Restrictions Upheld
• $282,500 Awarded in NY False Arrest and Beating Suit
• BOP Denial of Bone Marrow Transplant Questioned
• Complaint Must State Defendant's Capacity When Sued
• Alabama Jail Not Liable for Suicide
• Restrictions on Voodoo Practices Upheld
• Court Dismisses Dental, Diet and TB Suit
• Court Dismisses Kansas Beating Suit
• Five Hour Delay in Treating Beaten Arrestee Okay
• Sheriff Not Liable in Prisoner Attack
• Administrative Exhaustion for Kidney Transplant Habeas
• No Immunity for Beating Delaware Prisoner
• Beating Claim Exhausted When Defendants' Don't Respond
• Investigators Retaliation Claim Set for Trial
• No Federal Claim Where Wife Took Prisoner's Social Security Funds
• Alabama Jail Still not Liable for Suicides
• No New Trial in NY Beating Suit that Plaintiff Lost
• Brutality Claim Set for Trial
• No Reconsideration of Summary Dismissal
• Law Library Denial Didn't Prevent Habeas Filing
• Individual Prison Officials Not Liable Under FLSA
• District of Columbia Sex Offender Registration Unconstitutional
• Suit Over NY Protective Custody Conditions Dismissed
• Exhaustion Required for Retaliatory Transfer Claim
• Some Damages Allowed in Visiting Suit
• Tight Handcuffs State Claim
• Detention in Underwear Upheld
• Parole Board Can Consider Dismissed Sex Offenders
• ADA Claim Dismissed for Non Exhaustion
• County and Private Health Company Liable for Retaliatory Firings
• BOP Can Perform Autopsy Over Executed Prisoner's Religious Objection
• Black Supervisors Liable for Title VII Harassment
• No Habeas Relief for Prisoner Restrained During Criminal Trial
• Hispanic Guard States Discrimination Claim
• Failure to Protect Claim Fails
• SD Prison Officials Not Liable for Suicide
• Not Allowing Prisoner to View Disciplinary Video Upheld
• Jail Denial of Asthma Inhaler Upheld
• No Counsel for Asthmatic Forced to do Field Work
• Forcible Drugging of IL Prisoner Upheld
• Partial Disrobing Qualifies as Strip Search
• BOP Prisoner Bystander Hurt in Gang Fight States FTCA Claim
• $41,000 Jury Verdict for Pepper Sprayed CT Motorist
• Pro Se Litigants Must be Informed of S.J. Consequences
• Attorney Fee Rates Determined by Judicial District
• Police Surveillance Consent Decree Modified
• Second Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Snitch Jacketing Claim
• Probation Revoked Despite Lack of Mental Health Treatment
• No Liberty Interest in NY Parole Laws
• CA Attorney General May be Sanctioned for Lying in Prison Case
• Stripping Detainees Naked for Hours States Claim
• Police Not Liable for Killing Bystander During Chase
• Confession Not Linked to Tasering
• School Officials May Be Liable for Teacher Choking Student
• County May be Liable for Hogtying Death of Arrestee
• Consent Decree Modification Discussed
• Complaint Against Police Survives Motion to Dismiss
• Suit Dismissed as Discovery Sanction
• Sexually Intrusive Public Pat Search Violates Constitution
• Parole Condition Banning Pornography Too Vague
• Prior Disciplinary Actions against Police Inadmissible
• Retaliation Claim Doesn't Require Exhaustion
• Delay in Kidney Dialysis Not Serious Medical Need
• Police Immune in Pepper Spraying Death
• Jail Not Liable in Suicide Case
• Ill Fitting Jail Clothes Claim Dismissed; Beating Claim Remanded
• No Judicial Immunity for Expelling Person from Court Grounds
• Black Prison Guards Discrimination Suit Dismissed
• Back Injury Treatment Suit Dismissed
• Lack of Interpreter at Some Hearings Upheld
• Police Not Liable for Arrestees Post Surgery Injury
• $282,500 Awarded to Elderly Arrestee for Tight Handcuffs
• Town Enjoined from Banning Games
• Jail Liable for Distress Caused by Hostage Training
• NY SHU Conditions Case Dismissed Under Physical Injury Rule
• Texas Rioting Infraction Upheld
• Virginia Grooming Rules Upheld
• Class Properly Certified in House Demolition Case
• Voluntary Cessation of Practice Does Not Moot Suit
• CMS Doctor Not Liable for Delaying Bone Graft
• Removal of Disruptive Pro Se Plaintiff during Cross Examination Upheld
• Courts Can Enforce Settlements
• Delay in Processing Administrative Claims Okay
• Medical Claim Requires Administrative Exhaustion
• Designation as Terrorist Organization Requires Due Process
• Minor Injury Suit Against Police Dismissed
• Nominal Damages Verdict Against Nevada Police Upheld
• Restrained Juvenile Prisoner Settles Injury Claim For $1,000
• Alabama Prisoners Injured By Unhealthy Living Conditions Settle For $53,000
• Georgia $892,138 Settlement For Stroke/Brain Damage Caused By Cops
• Attorney Awarded $55,976.19 For Limited Success In Class Action Lawsuit
• New York Court Awards $33,000 For Saw-Related Hand Injury
• New York Prisoner Assaulted In City Jail Awarded $920,000
• New York Prisoner Awarded $70,423 for Fractured Femur in Football Fall
• Ohio Prisoner Assaulted By Militant Group Awarded $70,000
• Appeals Courts Have Wide Discretion in Class Certification Appeals
• White Police Man's Discrimination Suit Dismissed
• Retaliatory Transfer Suit Dismissed
• Arkansas Field Death Suit Dismissed
• BOP Hernia Suit Dismissed for Non Exhaustion
• Ohio Prison Officials get Qualified Immunity in Guard Strip Searches
• Mississippi Cancer Death Suit Dismissed
• Unfiled Lawsuit Protected Speech
• Court Permission Must Be Sought for Party to Proceed Anonymously
• Prisoner Bears Burden of Proving Mailbox Claim
• District Court Vacates KS Jury Verdict of $500,000 in Jail Beating
• Qualified Immunity for Body Cavity Search of Prison Guard
• Attorney-Client Privilege Doesn't Protect All Discovery
• BOP Work Injuries Not Cognizable Under FTCA
• NY Prisoners May Have Liberty Interest in Work Release
• Court Upholds Kicking Handcuffed Prisoner on Ground
• Perp Walk Suit States Claim
• 11th Amendment Bars Prison Guard's FLSA Suit for Unpaid Work
• PLRA Three Strikes Statute Held Unconstitutional
• Pro Se Parole Suit for Damages Dismissed
• No Liberty Interest in Security Classification
• Class of Disabled Medicaid Recipients Decertified
• Door Slamming Suit Dismissed
• § 1983 Or Bivens Required When Suing Post Office For Lost Property
• Previous Convictions And Serious Difficulty Controlling One's Actions Sufficient In SVP Determinatio
• Detention While Awaiting Re-sentencing Is Still Term Of Imprisonment Under IAD
• Ninth Circuit Orders Reconsideration Of Victim Presence At Entire Trial Under CVRA
• $2.4 Million Awarded In District of Columbia Jail Suicide
• Altercation Suit Brought By Prisoner Backfires; $250,000 Awarded to Guard
• $26,000 Awarded In Washington Jail Suicide Suit
• $678,478 Awarded In Federal Prisoner's Death From Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer
• Death Row Prisoner Awarded One Dollar For Lung Damage
• SVP'S Have No Right To Counsel During Evaluation
• California Prisoner Shot In Leg and Denied Crutches Awarded $75,002
• Massachusetts Prisoner Beaten By Guards Awarded $21,000
• Murdered Illinois Prisoner's Estate Awarded $942,364 For Wrongful Death
• New York Prisoner Awarded $60,000 For Fall, Back Injury
• New York Jail Prisoner Awarded $190,000 For Guard-Inflicted Facial Injuries
• Wrongfully Convicted New York Man Denied Compensation Based on Improperly Verified Claim
• $250,000 Settlement When Police Beat California Man to Death Over Misdemeanor Arrest
• Washington District Court Awards $195,000 For False Arrest, Emotional Distress
• White Texas Prisoner Assaulted By African-American Cellmate Awarded $90,000
• Contract Rabbi Acting In Ecclesiastical Nature
• Proof of Jewish Heritage May Violate Equal Protection
• Private Transportation Company Owes No Legal Duty To Escapee's Victim's Family
• Administrative Remedies Exhausted Even If Untimely
• Retaliation Claims Must Be Based On Constitutional Rights
• Attorney's Must Have Express Authorization To Enter Into Settlement Agreements
• Claims May Be Found Within Content Of Complaint
• Conflict of Law Analysis Required in Multi State FTCA Litigation
• $167,500 Awarded For Failure To Treat Fatal Colon Cancer in California Prisoner
• $183,000 Awarded To California Deputy District Attorney Attacked During Parole Hearing
• Oregon Architects Not Liable For Design Negligence In Detainee Suicide
• Former Florida Guard Awarded $49,000 Despite Summary Judgment Against Her
• Former Federal Prisoner Complaint Barred Against Federal Agency
• Cost of Prosecuting Prisoner Crimes In Pennsylvania Prisons Must Be Paid By State
• Time Frame to Re-Apply for California Rehabilitation Certificate Begins on Denial Date
• Mentally Disturbed Prisoner Capable Of Own Litigation For Method Of Execution
• Tight Handcuffs, Violent Police Car Ride State Claim
• Consent Decree Requires More Than Best Efforts
• Suit Challenging WI Civil Commitment Conditions Dismissed
• AL Control Unit Ban on Publications Not Moot Or Ripe
• Private Medical Company Not Municipality Subject to Punitive Damages
• Jail Doctor Given Qualified Immunity For Involuntarily Catheterizing Prisoner
• Injured Jail Prisoner Denied Crutches, Lower Cell States Claim
• Law Library Claims Must Be Brought Under § 1983
• Parole Condition Barring Contact With Religious Sect Upheld
• Police Chief Approval of Report Exonerating Brutal Cops is Municipal Policy
• WI Mental Health Records Ordered Disclosed
• Threats for Filing Suit Actionable
• Sex Offender's Suit Over Conditions and Attack Dismissed
• 11th Amendment Bars Damages Under Rehabilitation Act
• AEDPA Applies to Disciplinary Habeas Petitions
• Family Lacks Standing to Sue over Prisoner Murder
• Racial Discrimination Claim in IL Civil Commitment Must Be Brought under Habeas
• Court Orders Sentence Credit for Time in Federal Custody
• School Case Mooted During Appeal
• Involuntary Appointment of Lawyers to do Arbitration Upheld
• Firing of Maryland Muslim Chaplain Upheld
• Ten-Day Limit to Appeal Denial of Class Certification
• Forcibly Drugged Death Row Prisoner Granted Permanent Stay of Execution
• Reporter Sues CMS for Defamation
• Plaintiff Entitled to Choose Venue for Suit
• PLRA Filing Fees Prioritized on Prisoner Debt List
• NY Jail Finger Injury Suit Dismissed
• Filing Fee Refund Period Discussed
• Single Wrongful Police Search Enough to Assert Policy
• Second Circuit Explains Interlocutory Class Certification Appeals
• Qualified Immunity for Prison Psychiatrist Who Fails to Protect Prisoner
• Private Contractors Bound by State Consent Decree
• Slip and Fall Injury Claim Dismissed
• No Right to International Transfer to UK Prison
• Non-Profits Denied Right to Intervene in Mental Disability Case
• Defendant Drugged for Capital Trial
• New Suit Requires PLRA Exhaustion
• Qualified Immunity Claims Should Be Resolved First
• Forcible Police Detention States Claim
• Involuntary Drugging of Criminal Defendant Upheld
• Court Orders Leg Shackled for Criminal Defendant
• Denial of Colostomy Surgery Due to Cost is a Serious Medical Need
• Motion to Compel Discovery Denied for Not Conferring With Counsel
• Transportation Injury Suit Dismissed
• Class of Disabled Riders Certified
• Defendant Loses Forfeiture Challenge Despite Lack of Notice
• VA Muslim Prisoner's Suit Over Retaliation, Clergy, Diet Dismissed
• DC Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over Virginia DOC Officials
• Guard Loses Gender Discrimination Suit
• Suit Over Virginia DOC Drug Testing Practices Dismissed
• BOP Denial of Knee Surgery Upheld
• Class of Disabled Children Certified to Avoid Mootness
• PLRA Filing Fees Don't Apply to Immigration Detainees
• D.C. Limitations Tolled for First Incarcertation
• Limits on Free Legal Supplies in Virginia Upheld
• Nashville Jail Crowding Injunction Terminated
• No Contempt for KS Jail Sheriff
• Fact Questions Over Exhaustion Preclude Dismissal
• Prejudice Required for Courtroom Shackling Claim
• Snitch's Assault Claim Dismissed
• Deposition of Juvenile Prisoner Rape Victim Postponed Until Release
• Prisoner Legal Aide's Firing Upheld for Violating Prison Rules
• Sheriff Not Liable for Deputy Abusing Arrestee
• Disability Not Required for Disability Discrimination Student Plaintiffs
• Jury Entitled to Hear of Plaintiff's Medical Condition in False Arrest Case
• Jail Not Liable for Arrestee's Cocaine Overdose Death
• Delay of Treatment for Spinal Injury Suit Dismissed
• One Week Connecticut Lockdown Conditions Upheld
• Title VII Suits Limited to EEOC Charges
• Jail Prisoner's Shooting Suit Estopped by Fruad Conviction from Incident
• Louisiana Jail Policy Banning Abortions Upheld
• Ninth Circuit Upholds Prosecutor Denying Detainee Phone Access
• RFRA Does Not Require Religious School to Recognize Union
• Retroactive Federal DNA Testing for Parolees Upheld
• Court Denies Defendant Transfer to Jail Closer to Counsel
• Notice Implies Consent to BOP Jail Phone Recordings
• Court Authorizes Use of Stun Belt on Criminal Defendant
• International Treaties Cannot Be Enforced By Individuals
• Court Can Appoint Amicus in Pro Se Death Penalty Case
• Police Union Allowed to Intervene in U.S. Brutality Suit
• No Prejudice in 45 Uniformed Guards Presence at Murder Trial of Guard
• WA City Liable for Jail Doctor's Negligence
• $1,226,625 Verdict in Wrongful Death of Prisoner on Jail Outing
• $1,500,000 Verdict in Half-Way Houses' Failure to Warn
• $1.45 Million Settlement in Mentally Ill Alabama Jail Prisoner's Death
• $150,000 Verdict in Failure to Train Suit for Withdrawal Death of CT Jail Prisoner
• $163,900 Settlement in Illegal Shackling of Chicago Jail Prisoner
• Order Limiting Defendant from Contacting Class Members Should be Narrow
• Export Report Struck for Failing to Set Basis for Opinion
• Protective Orders Must Be Narrow, Judicial Proceedings Inherently Public
• Evidence Disclosed to Experts is Discoverable
• Delay of HIV Medication Claim Dismissed
• Federal Injunctions Against State Agencies Must be Narrow
• Police Beating Requiring Spleen Removal Actionable
• No Policy Needed to Support Municipal Liability Under ADA/RA
• No Suit Dismissal for Not Answering Deposition Questions
• Eventual HCV Diagnosis Fails to State Claim
• Village Failure to Investigate Police Abuse May Create Liability
• Habeas Required to Challenge Abuse Parole Arrest
• Administrative Exhaustion Required for Title VII Claims
• Felony Murder Convict Can't Sue Police for Shooting Him
• Free Speech Protects Right to Hire, Consult with Counsel
• CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ
• MA DOC Refuses to Process Civil Rights Grievances
• Multiple Prisoner Plaintiffs Can Split Filing Fee
• BOP Prisoners Bunk Injury Dismissed Under FTCA
• Court Upholds Maryland DOC Staff Grooming Rules
• State Court Proceedings Limit Federal Injunctive Suits
• Forbidding Prison Nurse From Leaving Work States False Imprisonment
• Exhaustion May Not Be Available Due to Transfer After Assault
• $685,002 Verdict For Family of Child Killed with Police Radio
• Report Not Admissible in TN Jail Suicide Suit
• Student Strip Search Upheld Due To Vulgar Leaflet
• Hearing Officer Not Required to Identify Favorable Witnesses
• Ex Post Facto Parole Claim Can Be Brought Under § 1983
• Censorship of Music Tape Upheld
• Wrongful Arrest Claim Supports Municipal Liability
• No Right to Prompt Return to State Prison
• HCQIA No Bar to Discovery of Peer Review Reports
• Police Racial Discrimination Class Action Certified
• Pre Forfeiture Seizure of DUI Vehicles Illegal
• Second Circuit Skirts Qualified Immunity Analysis
• Mailbox Rule Only Applies to Use of Prison Mail System
• No Supervisory Liability for Ignoring Back Pain Complaint Letter
• Child Visitors Clothing Removal Upheld
• No Immunity for Cop Who Shot Arrestee in Holding Cell
• Inability to Work Suit Dismissed
• Resisting Arrest Doesn't Bar Excessive Force Suit against Police
• Suit Over Seizure of IRA Refund Check Dismissed
• Nevada Smoking Suit Dismissed
• New Jersey Parole Suit Dismissed
• Legal Mail Suit Dismissed, Administrative Exhaustion is Affirmative Defense
• Oklahoma DOC Grievance System Passes Muster
• Jury Verdicts Explained
• Suit Dismissed for Failing to Pay Initial Filing Fee
• Private Medical Transport Company Not Liable for Police Actions
• Adequate Expert Reports Can Be Compelled
• IFRP Claim Not Exhausted
• Policy of Separating Domestic Violence Victims from Kids Enjoined
• Grievance and Harassment Complaint Must be Filed to Exhaust
• Target Shooting Not Protected Free Speech
• Class Certified in FL Medicaid Challenge
• Grievance Deadlines Bar NY Brutality Suit
• Proactive Sheriff Not Liable for Assault in Overcrowded Jail
• Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Suit For Execution Protocol Absent Stating Alternatives
• Abuse of Discretion Applied to PLRA Frivolous Dismissals
• EEOC Delay Not Responsibility of Plaintiff
• Kansas Jail Retaliates Against Nurse Whistleblower
• No Supervisory Liability for Forwarding Complaint to Investigator
• Court Enjoins Transfer of BOP Prisoners to Virginia DOC under RFRA
• ADA/RA Suits Require Proof of Intentional Discrimination
• Kentucky Jail Guards Liable for Beating Prisoner to Death
• Denial of HIV Treatment Suit against BOP, CCA Dismissed
• Prosecutor, Daughter Immune for Trying to Elicit Jailhouse Confession
• Administrative Exhaustion Required in Jail Assault Case
• No Protective Order for Municipal Financial Records
• Lawyers Must be Allowed Access to Indigent Interrogatees
• Biased Hearing Officer Spoils Changes against Muslim Prisoner Who Circulates Petition
• Denial of Feet Treatment, Paralegal Education, Visiting Suit Dismissed
• Imprisonment Precludes Prisoner's False Arrest Suit
• ADA Requires Exhaustion of Employee Claims
• CCA Employees Can Be Sued Under Bivens For Retaliation, Court Access Issues
• Failure to Treat Mental Illness Not Actionable in NY Case
• Juvenile Curfew Law Struck Down
• Trial Court Abuses Discretion in Dismissed Suit over Filing Fee Payment
• Preliminary Injunction Denied in Virginia Lethal Injection Challenge
• Court Rejects Mental Patient's Toilet Deprivation Suit
• Strip Search of Juvenile Prisoner Upheld
• Rhode Island Guard Pay Reduction Law Upheld
• No Media Filming of Missouri Execution Allowed
• Psychotropic Medication Claim Requires Expert Testimony
• Court Upholds North Dakota Prisoner's Forced Drugging
• Florida Lethal Injection Challenge Rejected
• Expert Witness Qualifications Discussed
• Mistake of Law Excuses Lack of Administrative Exhaustion
• Informal Grievance Exhaustion Satisfies PLRA
• Attorney Fees Available for Nursing Home Settlement Monitoring
• Denial of Disciplinary Witnesses Upheld
• No Liability For Pennsylvania Prisoner Held Six Months Past Release Date
• No Qualified Immunity for Holding WI Prisoner Past Release Date
• Delousing Shampoo Process Upheld
• No Right to Wrongful Release Time Credit
• Numerous Evidentiary Rulings in Illinois Police Abuse Suit
• Feres Doctrine Bar Military Prisoners FTCA Claim
• BOP Prisoner Granted PI for Release Placement
• BOP Prisoner Wins Habeas in Work Release Challenge
• Sex Offender Treatment for Release Claim Rejected
• Alabama County Commission Responsible for Jail Conditions
• Damages for Racial Discrimination Claim Upheld, Explained
• Challenge to D.C. Parole Practices Rejected
• No Immunity for Beating Brain Injured MD Prisoner
• Damages Reduced in CT Police Failure to Protect from Police Case
• BOP Ordered to Review Work Release Application
• Exhaustion Defense Not Waived by 22 Month Delay
• Court Rejects Attempted Suicide Claim by Indiana Jail Prisoner
• Parties Involvement Must Be Shown in Vascular Care Suit
• Back Injury Misdiagnosis Okay
• No One Liable in Jail Prisoner's Mysterious Death
• IG Complaints Can Constitute Exhaustion
• Written Statements Supports Disciplinary Sanctions
• Jail Delay in Treating Injured Hand Okay
• No Liability for Assault of Miami Jail Prisoner
• Administrative Exhaustion Tolls Statute of Limitations
• BOP Detainer Suit Dismissed
• No Police or Hospital Liability for Catheterizing Motorist for Drug Test
• ADA Group Home Suit Not Moot
• Cause Shown in Disciplinary Procedural Default
• New BOP Work Release Policy Upheld
• Virginia Jail Housing Fee Upheld
• Settlement Requires Trial Over Attorney Fees
• No Sentencing Guidelines Departure for Heart Transplant
• Federal DNA Sample Parole Condition Upheld
• Defendants Can Amend Answer to Raise Administrative Exhaustion Defense
• Arrestees' Kansas Jail Conditions Suit Dismissed
• Prisoner's Denial of Court Access for Divorce Defined, Confuses Court
• Firing of Deputy Warden Based on Political Affiliation Upheld
• South Dakota Juvenile Strip Searches Enjoined
• Court Rejects Challenge to West Virginia Parole Denial
• Medical Staff Records Subject to Disclosure
• Failure to Exhaust Differs from Failure to State Claim under PLRA
• Ninth Circuit Defines Arrest
• Arrestee Overdose Suit Dismissed for Lack of Injury
• Class Certification Criteria Recited
• New York Jail Strip Search Upheld
• Court Denies Leave to Add Parties to Medical Suit
• Pennsylvania Jail Suit for Failure to Treat Broken Jaw Dismissed
• New Jersey Jail Conditions Suit Goes Forward
• Telephone User Has Standing to Sue Over Poor Service
• Seven Hour Deposition Limit
• Title VII Requires Class Wide Administrative Change for Certification
• Gay New York Prison Guard Sues over Harassment
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Firing of Whistleblowing Guard
• Religious Immunization Exemption Statute in Arkansas Voided
• Court Bars Expert Testimony in Police Brutality Suit
• Title VII Claims Subject to Equitable Tolling
• Non Exhaustion Dismissals without Prejudice
• Court Upholds Firing of Probationary Cop for Affair With Captain
• No Liability for Untreated Cancer Death Claim
• Vanity Plates Are Not Protected Speech
• City Liable for Jay Walker Being Shot 14 Times by Cop
• Timeliness of Administrative Exhaustion Claim Needs to be Presented in Grievances
• PHS Avoids Liability in Maine Prison Suicide
• No Liability for Medical Neglect Death of Mental Patient
• Damage Awards to 22 Minority Cops Upheld
• Court Upholds Firing of Racist NY Cop
• Wackenhut is a State Actor for Section 1983 Liability
• Removal of Children From Domestic Violence Victims Enjoined
• Guards Refusal to Protect MD Prisoner Upheld
• Client-Client Meeting Notes Not Privileged
• Going Barefoot Not Protected Speech
• Administrative Exhaustion Required for Title VII Claims
• Okay to Hold Sexually Violent Predator in Jail for Trial
• Sheriff Not Liable for Hiring Brutal Jail Guards
• Kentucky Sex Offender Classification Upheld
• Class Certified Despite Disagreement Among Plaintiffs
• Supreme Court Clarifies Limitations on Removed State Law Claims
• Jail Not Liable for Understaffing That Results in Suicide
• Loss of Time a Compensable Damage
• AIDS Death Complaint Dismissed After Three Amendments
• Beating, Tasering Claim Withstands Summary Judgment
• Pro Se Complaints Broadly Construed
• Delay in Appealing Grievance Denial Bars Suit
• Important Application of Qualified Immunity to Supervisory Liability Claims
• City Not Liable in Police Shooting
• Consent Decree Deadlines Extended Due to Attorney Conduct
• ADA Suit by Alcoholic Work Release Residents Dismissed
• Alcoholism is a Disability
• Administrative Exhaustion Required Despite No Response to Grievance
• Supervisors Not Liable for Retaliatory Assault
• Default Denied Where Defendant Ignores Complaint
• NY Ban on Internet Materials Upheld
• Grievance Response Required Before Suit Filed
• Attempted Rape by Cop States Claim
• FCC Radio License Can Unconstitutional
• Attorney Fees Allowed in Defending Decree from Attack
• Hearing Officer Immune in Barring Witness Questioning
• Defendant Sanctioned for Late Production of Discovery
• Color Blind Bus Driver Not Disabled Under ADA
• Police Not Liable for Suicide of Released Arrestee
• $50,000 Award in Michigan Jail Beating Suit
• $95,000 Settlement in Guards Dropping Prisoner Suit
• Undisclosed Settlement in Arizona Mistaken Identity Arrest
• $3,115,000 Settlement in Negligent Release of Paranoid Schizophrenic Prisoner
• PA Female Lt. Awarded $37,234 in Faulty Sex Termination
• $35,000 Settlement in Maine Jail Strip-Search Case
• Disciplinary Rule Description Rather than Title Controls
• Federal Law Requiring Felons Submit DNA Sample Constitutional
• New York Prisoner's Prior Convictions for Sex Offenses Are Sufficient for Level 3 Classification
• NY Prisoners Entitled to Assistant to Help Prepare Their Defenses in Tier 3 Disciplinary Hearings
• NY Sex-Offender Properly Classified as Risk Level II Where Risk Assessment Points Place Him in That
• NY Sex Offender's Risk Level 3 Classification Based on Credible Information, Thus Affirmed
• Total Exhaustion Rule Should Apply Separately to Each Plaintiff
• Sovereign Immunity Not Waived by Federal Extradition Act
• WA Plea Agreement Based on Incorrect Offender Score Vacated
• DC Circuit Awards Fees in CIA FOIA Suit
• $2,000,000 Jury Verdict in Negligence Suit in Hospital for Failure to Protect
• $2,000,000 Settlement in California Excessive Force Prison Shooting
• $2,350,000 Settlement in Florida Jail Prisoner's Restraint Chair Death
• $30,000 Settlement in NY Jail Beating Case
• $40,000 Jury Award for Texas Jail Beating that Left Soccer Star Quadriplegic
• Dead GA Prisoner's Family Dismissed in Federal Court, Allowed to Refile in State Court Without Paying Costs
• Tight Handcuffs Suit Dismissed
• TN Prisoner Not Entitled by State PRA to Free Inspection of Records Kept Outside of Prison
• Jail Segregation Ban on Collect Calls Upheld
• PLRA Doesn't Apply to Released Prisoners, Delay in Seizure Medication Okay
• Arrestee Strip Search Upheld in Maryland
• Kentucky Pschiatrist Gets Qualified Immunity in Forced Medication Suit
• IL Civil Commitment Law Upheld
• GA Prisoner Gets 5 Years Fed Time for Mailing Threatening Letter to Judge
• Fed. Parolee's Waiver of Right to Counsel at Revocation Hearing Must be Knowing and Voluntary under the Circumstances
• Work Privilege Discussed
• FBI Must Take Reasonable Steps to Locate Information on Records Requested Under FOIA
• NY Sex Offender's Risk Level Three Classification Affirmed
• CA Prisoner's Mental Health Records Exempt From Disclosure
• TN DNA Collection Statute Held Constitutional
• TN Prisoner States Medical Malpractice Claim Re: Failure to Provide Remedial Surgery
• WA Sex-Offender Gets New Civil Commitment Trial With Court Appointed Witness
• WI Parole Board's Labeling Necrophiliac a Sex Offender Doesn't Violate the U.S. Constitution
• WA Prisoners Who Assault Guards Knowing That They're Guards are Guilty of Custodial Assault
• No Immunity for Police in Tight Handcuffs Suit
• State Court Habeas for Spinal Treatment Bars Federal Suit
• Jail Confiscation of Personal Bible Upheld
• Shackling Criminal Defendant Upheld
• Injunction in PA Re-Arrest Class Action Reversed
• Court Rejects Cold Cell BOP Suit
• Jail Immune in Alcohol Withdrawal Death
• No Liability for Attack on Prisoner Collaborator
• Prisoner Legal Advisor's Transfer Upheld
• Police Force Claim Not Barred by Heck
• Segregation Excuses Failure to File Amended Complaint
• Class Certification Can Be Bifurcated for Liability and Damages
• Prisoner Suit Filed When Mailed to Court
• Private Juvenile Sex Offender School Not a State Actor
• Exposure to Smoke, Retaliatory Discipline and Dish Washing Claims Dismissed
• Administrative Exhaustion Required in Beating Claim
• PLRA Filing Fee Requirement Upheld
• No Immunity For Cop Who Sprays Woman With Pepper Spray in Patrol Car
• Federal Court Generally Can't Enjoin State Court Proceedings
• Dental Infection Imminent Physical Injury Under PLRA
• Class Representatives Have Standing to Enforce Settlements
• Mentally Ill Prisoner's Dehydration Death Disputed
• Attorney Sanction for Failure to Comply with Pretrial Orders Upheld
• Notice to Class Inadequate, Collusion Between Parties Voids Settlement
• Preliminary Injunction Insufficient for Prevailing Party Status
• No Hiring Liability for Brutal Arkansas Jail Guards
• Female Guard Supervision of Naked Male Prisoners Upheld
• Leg Brace during Criminal Trial is Harmless Error
• Minor Plaintiff's FTCA Claims Not Tolled
• No Liability for Death of Arrestee Who Caused Police Car Crash
• Discovery Materials Presumptively Public
• Plaintiff Must Prove Liberty Interest in Avoiding Segregation
• BOP Work Release Policy Preliminary Enjoined
• Punishment for Refusing Polygraph Upheld
• No Filing Fee Waiver of Appeals in Three Strikes Cases
• Damages Awarded for Denial of Voting Rights
• BOP Refusal to Credit State Sentence as Concurrent Upheld
• No Qualified Immunity for Arbitrarily Pepper Spraying Prisoner
• PLRA Governs Motion to Disclose Grand Jury Records
• Appeal Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Consent Decree Modifications
• Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Enforce Settlement
• Fifth Circuit Discusses Title VII Class Certification
• Prisoner Attacker Can't Be Sued Under § 1983, Guard Can
• Plaintiffs May Opt Out of Esmor Brutality Class Action
• Kansas Court Access Claim Dismissed for Lack of Injury
• No Stay of Discovery for Pro Se Plaintiff
• Pro Se Prisoner Ordered to Produce Court Access Claim Discovery
• No Counsel Appointed in PLRA Filing Fee Suit
• City Not Liable for Police Acting on Unenforceable Arrest Order
• No Immunity for California Cops Leaving Mentally Ill Man in Vegetative State
• Work Release Lacks Standing to Challenge BOP Policy
• Title VII Claim Against NY Jail by Employee Proceeds
• Pennsylvania Parole Whistleblower Suit Dismissed
• No Qualified Immunity Despite Lack of Case Law for False Arrest
• Cop Suing Under Title VII for Discrimination Entitled to Discovery
• Lack of Indigent Defense in Oregon Suit Dismissed As Moot
• Size Only One Factor in Class Certification
• Guard Union Suit Over Staffing, Overcrowding Dismissed
• No Municipal Liability for Police Neck Breaking
• Lack of Investigations of Police Misconduct Make City Liable
• Legislation Supplies Notice On Its Own
• Dividing Muslim Services into Groups Upheld
• PLRA Doesn't Apply to Immigration Habeas Petition
• Police Liable for Hob Tying Death of Arrestee
• Change in BOP Work Release Policy Warrants New Sentence
• Michigan Jail Not Liable for Suicide
• Indiana Prisoner Raped By Staff Ordered to Amend Complaint
• Kicking Suspect for Drugs Illegal
• Defendant Denial Reinforces Need for Injunction
• No Qualified Immunity for Suicide of Utah Prisoner
• No Opportunity to Earn Good Time Claim Dismissed
• Continuing Rehabilitation Act Claims Require Exhaustion
• Police Beating Award Reduced
• Class of Over Detained, Strip Searched DC Prisoners Certified
• Product Liability Suit by Prisoner Welder Dismissed
• Parole Retaliation Suit Dismissed
• No Termination of Rikers Island Conditions Injunction
• Grievance Must Name All Parties to Be Sued
• No Jurisdiction for Claim of Rape in Indian Jail
• Court Refuses to Drug Defendant for Trial
• Guard's Sentence Enhanced for Beating Disabled Prisoner
• Federal Parolee Can Challenge Forced Medication Release Condition
• Defendant Drugged for Federal Murder Trial
• Trial in Prison Clothes Harmless Error
• PLRA Doesn't Require Exhaustion of Non Prison Remedies
• Ohio Religious Grievance Process Doesn't Exhaust Claim
• Prison Officials Must Offer Evidence to Support Denial of Sukkot Booths
• Judge, not Magistrate Must Make Decision to Drug Criminal Defendant
• False Charges against Staff Not Unconstitutional
• Virginia Jail Fees Upheld
• Indiana Handcuff Injury Suit Dismissed
• Okay to Deprive Arrestees of Food and Water for Short Time
• Destruction of Prisoner's Medical Records Violates 8th Amendment
• Class Claims' Mootness Determined by When Certification is Sought
• Nebraska Sheriff Liable for Jail Suicide
• Defendants Bear Burden of Proving Non Exhaustion
• Court Refuses to Stay BOP Good Time Order Pending Appeal
• Supreme Court Defines Disabled Under ADA
• Court Certifies Class Challenging Denial of treatment to Mental Patients
• Work Release Prisoners Subject to PLRA Exhaustion Requirement
• Grievance Must Name Defendants, Complaint Must Specify Exhaustion
• Limitations Period Tolled During Exhaustion Process
• Visiting Denial to Colorado Sex Offender Who Refuses Treatment Upheld
• Prison Officials Cannot Refuse to Process Grievances
• Pennsylvania Sex Offender Parole Denial Suit States Some Claims
• 79 Day Indiana Death Row Lockdown Upheld
• Jail Staff Not Liable for Violating No Contact Order
• Court Upholds Strip Search, Nudity During Urine Test
• Psychologist Who Prepares Parole Report Gets Judicial Immunity from Suit
• IFRP Exempt from Privacy Act
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Damages in Strip Search Suit
• Submission of Form Doesn't Violate Religious Beliefs
• Legal Mail Use Required to Invoke Mail Box Rule
• District Court Cannot Set Pleading Standards above FRCP 8
• No One Liable in Jail Suicide of 16 Year Old
• No Immunity for Prosecutors Who Conspire to Assault Prisoner
• No Remedy for Mexican Doctor Kidnapped, Tortured by DEA
• Indiana Guard States Retaliation Claim
• Challenge to BOP Denial of Pre Sentence Reports Must Be Brought As Civil Suit
• Suit Dismissed for Failing to Timely Exhaust
• Delaware DOC Denial of Medical Diet Suit Proceeds
• Black FBI Agent Beaten by Police States Claim
• After 34 Years, Alabama Complies With Mental Health Order
• Court Denies Jail Staff Motion to Dismiss in Death Suit
• Sentence Requiring Defendant to Wear Sign in Public Upheld
• Resentencing Required After BOP Changes Work Release Rule
• No Law Library Required When Defendant Has Standby Counsel
• County Liable for Miscalculating Detainees Sentence
• General Compensatory Damages Upheld by 11th Circuit
• IG Complaints Alone Don't Exhaust NY Jail Complaints
• Los Angeles Lump Sum Settlement Policy Enjoined
• Change in BOP Work Release Policy Upheld
• Court Orders New Trial on Damages Only in Excessive Force Case
• Name Calling Suit Dismissed
• Disabled Prisoner's Handcuffing Suit Proceeds to trial Under RA
• Suit by Mentally Ill NY Jail Prisoners Dismissed
• BOP Work Release Injunction Vacated as Moot
• Preliminary Injunction Granted in BOP Work Release Suit
• RLUIPA Found Unconstitutional by Sixth Circuit
• Expert Witness Rate for Discovery Reduced
• Employers Entitled to Discovery on Plaintiffs Mental State
• ADA, RA Include Private Cause of Action
• Filing Amended Complaint Allows Defendants to Raise Waived Defense
• Court Orders Disclosure of Discovery Materials to Media
• Michigan District Court Discusses Administrative Exhaustion
• No Federal Court Jurisdiction Over Article 78 Claim
• Mental Health Arrests Okay
• No Liability in Jail Prisoner's Medical Neglect Death
• No Immunity in Kansas Jail Suicide
• BOP Proper Defendant in Work Release Change Suit under APA
• Challenge to BOP Law Enforcement Notification Law Dismissed
• Jail Liable for Guard's Rape of Female Prisoner
• Exhaustion is an Affirmative Defense under PLRA
• Court Can Raise Exhaustion Issues Sua Sponte
• No One Liable for Prisoner Assault
• Retaliatory Discipline Claims Dismissed, Conditions Claims Remain
• EEOC Complaint Exhausts Title VII Claim
• First Amendment Injuries are Irreparable for PI Purposes
• Municipality May Be Liable Even Absent Employee Liability
• Third Circuit Rejects Implied Class Certification
• FBI Waived Timeliness Defense by Not Raising It in Administrative Proceedings
• EEOC Complaint Must Allege Scope of Later Litigation
• 12 Day Delay Between Arrest, First Court Appearance Illegal
• Forced Prayers in Drug Treatment Program May Violate Establishment Clause
• Police Beating Suit Not Barred By Heck
• Failure to Exhaust Dismissals Count as PLRA Strike
• Challenge to Prison Library Purge Properly Exhausted
• District Court Erred in Appointing Court Monitor
• Snitch Jacketing Dismissed for Failing to Exhaust
• Punishment of Mentally Ill Prisoner Upheld
• Monitored Jail Phone Calls Admissible Evidence
• Al Qaida Prisoners Time Magazine Censorship Upheld
• Prisoner Charged With Perjury Over Statements to INS Officials
• Confiscation of Prisoner Author's Book on Anarchy States Claim
• No Qualified Immunity for Mental Hospital Strip Searches
• ADEA Claims Must be Properly Exhausted
• No Heck Bar to Disciplinary Challenge Not Involving Good Time
• No Total Exhaustion Rule for Michigan District Court
• Immigration Detention Class Certified
• Challenges to Illinois Civil Commitment Treatment Dismissed
• Al-Qaida Member Lacks Standing to Challenge Special Administrative Measures
• NY Police Immune for Taking Disabled Woman to Hospital
• Lack of Counsel for NJ Child Support Contempt Cases Upheld
• No Remedy for Contractor Suit Against Unicor
• Understaffed Jail Not Liable for Suicide
• FRCP 4 (e) Governs Service on Prison, Jail Employees
• No Qualified Immunity for Firing Jail Medical Director Over Trial Testimony
• First Circuit Dismisses Massachusetts Detainee's Challenge of Government Imposed SAMS
• Georgia Appeals Court Upholds $600,000 Judgment Against CMS
• Texas Supreme Court Remands Prison Applicant's Disability Discrimination Claim
• Dismissal of $100,000 Verdict Inappropriate For Errors On Delaware Prisoner's Affidavit Of Poverty
• Michigan County Settles Suicide Suit For $150,000
• Judge Revises Previous Order Based On Special Master Report
• Gay Massachusetts Jailer Awarded $623,600 For Hostile Work Environment
• New York Prisoner Awarded $279,583 For Work-Related Arm Fracture
• Quadriplegic Texas Prisoner Injured In Police Van Settles For $750,000
• U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates Violence Against Women Act
• WA Gift Subscription Ban Settled for $443.46
• Sixth Circuit Allows § 1983 Challenge to Ohio Parole Procedures
• Raped Texas Prisoner's Federal Claim Overturned, $367,916 Damage Award Reduced
• Sexually Explicit Speech Protected if not Obscene
• New York Prisoner Awarded $350,000 For Work-Related Fractures
• Meningitis Death In Racine County, Wisconsin, Jail Settles For $383,000
• Mail Censorship Claims State Claim
• Right to Privacy Survives Death under FOIA
• Defendants Held in Contempt in Trademark Suit
• Class of Homeless Children Seeking Education Certified
• New Exhaustion Not Required for Enforcement of IDEA Remedy
• Pennsylvania DOC Rule Denying Sex Offenders Visits with Minors Upheld
• No Disclosure of Informants Records
• Challenge to Maryland's Lethal Injection Procedure Allowed
• 9/11 Immigration Detainee Challenges Denial of Counsel, Religious Diet
• NY Prisoner Suit Dismissed for Failing to Exhaust
• Prisoner Can Block Repayment of Social Security Payments in Court
• BOP Prisoner Can Sue Cornell Run Jail in Rhode Island under § 1983
• North Dakota Ad Seg Placement Upheld
• Jail Failure to Treat Psoriasis Upheld
• Tight Handcuffs on Arrestee Violates Fourth Amendment
• No Authority for ADA to Prohibit Fee for Disabled Parking Placards
• Police Retaliation Against Expert Witness States Claim
• Mentally Ill WI Prisoner Sues over Control Unit Conditions
• BOP Ordered to Consider Work Release Placement
• Prisoner Cannot be Class Representative and File Industrial Suit Over Same Claims
• Second Circuit Discusses Damages for Loss of Liberty, Mental and Emotional Injury
• Class Certified in Suit by Georgia Foster Children
• Government Agent Authorizes Drug Deals Behind Bars
• Rule 68 Offers Applicable to Class Actions
• No Damages for Three Year Visiting Denial
• Class Can be Certified Despite Fact Differences
• Eighth Circuit Requires Total Exhaustion Before Suit Filed
• No Modification of Mental Hospital Consent Decree
• Seventh Circuit Discusses Injury in Court Access Suits
• Toe Nail Fungus Not a Serious Medical Need
• BOP Prisoner Suit Dismissed for Failing to Exhaust
• BOP Prison Phone Suit Wrongly Dismissed
• Court Denies Certification to Class of Involuntarily Operated On Mental Patients
• Court Vacates Default Judgments
• Court Enjoins BOP Prisoner Transfers from Work Release
• BOP Prisoners Habeas Hepatitis Suit Dismissed
• Seventh Circuit Applies PLRA to IL Civil Commitment Prisoners with Pending Charges
• No Liability for Heart Attack Death of MI Jail Detainee
• FTCA Doesn't Apply to BOP Surgeon Contractor
• Four Year Statute of Limitations for All Post 1990 Federal Laws
• Wolff Applies to Jail Prisoner Disciplinary Hearings
• Administrative Exhaustion Defense Waived by BOP
• Muslim Halal Diet Suit Against Kansas DOC Dismissed
• No Qualified Immunity to Virginia DOC Officials in Smoking Suit
• Burden of Proof in Retaliatory Transfer Suit Discussed
• Harassment and Verbal Abuse by Guards Legal under 8th Amendment
• Suit Waiver Not Valid Due to Lack of Counsel
• Continuing Violation of Federal Law Not Required for Consent Decree Jurisdiction
• Releasing Disabled Prisoner into Cold Weather Upheld
• Court Rules on Consolidated Suits against CMS in New Jersey
• Medical Defendant Must be Served Personally
• Voting Rights Act Doesn't Apply to NY Prisoners/Parolees
• California District Court Adopts Total Exhaustion
• Pointing Gun at Five Week Old Baby Unconstitutional
• Housing Rival Gang Members Together May Violate Constitution
• Indigent Prisoners Required to Pay PLRA Filing Fees
• Georgia False Arrest Suit Dismissed
• Georgia Detainee's Excessive Force Suit Dismissed
• No Claim for Guard Ordering Prisoner to Touch his Penis
• Strip Search of Female Jail Prisoner in View of Male Guard Upheld
• RLUIPA and RFRA Substantial Burden Defined
• Seizure of State Court Settlement Damages by MO DOC Upheld by Federal Courts
• Sheriff Not Liable for Slip and Fall in Showers
• No Dismissal of Visiting Denial Suit by Gang Founder
• State Court Ruling on Good Time Calculating Creates Liberty Interest
• Retaliation by NY Jail Guards Not Barred by PLRA
• NY Food Load Suit Dismissal Reversed Under RLUIPA
• Confiscation of Prisoner Property Upheld
• ADA Injunctions Allowed Under 11th Amendment
• Expert Witness Not Disqualified Based on Confidential Relationship with Plaintiff
• No Reconsideration of Jail Cancer Misdiagnosis
• No Counsel Appointed in Police Beating Suit
• Assault Victims Statements Must Be Evaluated at Disciplinary Hearing
• $27,501 Award to Beaten Maryland Prison Visitor
• No Immunity for Jail Guards Who Beat Diabetic Prisoner
• Change in BOP Work Release Policy Upheld in New York
• No Summary Judgment in NJ Control Unit Retaliation Case
• TN Chancery Court Must Award Reasonable, Rather Than All, Costs and Fees to Winner in Public Records
• Qualified Immunity for Mental Hospital Officials Holding Patient in Segregation
• District Court Committee Injunction Against Prolific Filer is Judicial
• Jury Finds CT Prisoner Denied Disciplinary Due Process
• Pro Se Sewage Exposure Claim Dismissed
• Release of DNA Evidence Must Be Brought As Habeas
• 11th Amendment Bars Consent Decree Enforcement
• Doctor Employed by Private Medical Company's Firing Upheld
• Exhaustion Required in Title VII Suits
• Guard Firing for Advising Coworker to Get Counsel Upheld
• Individual Defense Win Precludes Municipal Liability
• Informant Statement Enough for Disciplinary Conviction
• Jail Rape Claim Fails for Lack of Notice to Jailers
• Tight Handcuffs, Exposure to Heat in Police Car Actionable
• Plaintiff's Failure to Protect Claim Dismissed
• Contractor Suit against Union Chills Speech
• Prior Evidence of Brutality Admissible in Police Trial
• Preliminary Injunction Issued, Class Certified in NY Jail Strip Searches
• Immediate Appeal Allowed of Class Certification Ruling
• Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Blind Prisoner's Failure to Protect Suit
• No Right to Have Crimes by Guards Investigated or Prosecuted
• Court Describes Different Class Action Notifications
• Challenge to Legal Supplies Indigent Rule Dismissed
• North Carolina Jail Liable for Brain Injury
• Hernia Suit Dismissed for Lack of Injury
• $825,000 Attorney Fee Award in Maine Strip-Search Settlement
• $75,000 Nominal Damage Award Improper; Reduced to $1.00
• 9th Circuit Vacates Marshal's District-Wide Shackling Policy
• 10th Circuit Reverses Sua Sponte Medical Claim Dismissal
• WA Prisoner Properly Removed from Court
• OH Prisoner's Criminal Retaliation Conviction Reversed
• AZ Prisoner's 1983 Action against Judge and Prosecutor Barred By Absolute Immunity
• GA Prisoner's Conviction of Distributing Obscene Material in Movie Theater Reversed
• Eighth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Phone Rate Challenge
• Statutory Authority Lacking for Lien in Florida Prisoners' Gain Time Loss Challenge
• Denial of Interest May Violate Due Process
• BOP Prisoner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim in Guard Murder Rejected
• No Absolute Immunity for Parole Officials
• BOP Substance Abuse/Early Release Regulation Violates APA
• Failure to Provide Medical Records Waives Florida's Medical Malpractice Pre-Suit Requirements
• Cash Only Bail Violates Ohio Constitution
• Parole Revocation Hearing Required by 18 U.S.C. § 4214(c)
• Florida Parole Commission Cannot Substitute Its Factual Findings for Hearing Examiners
• California Jail/Prison Credits May Not be Limited Based Upon Convictions for Which Punishment was St by John Dannenberg
• RLUIPA Kouplock Injunction Reversed; Deference to Prison Officials Required by David Reutter
• Second Circuit Discusses Contempt Sanctions
• Transfer of Hawaii Prisoners to CCA Prison in Oklahoma Upheld
• Fourth Circuit Demands Particularized Right Under Qualified Immunity
• Georgia DNA Testing Statute Upheld
• Pro Se Suit against CMS and Aramark Dismissed
• D.C. Venue Improper in BOP Fine Punishment Suit
• Idaho Shaving Rule Infraction Against Prisoner with Brain Problem Vacated
• Attorney Fees Awarded in NY Police Brutality Suit
• California Religious Grooming, Muslim Sabbath Rule Enjoined, Good Time Restored
• Circumstantial Evidence Supports Disciplinary Drug Conviction
• Wisconsin Religious Work Release Contract May Violate Constitution
• Tenth Circuit Affirms Suicide Verdict in Trentadue Case
• Prison Officials May Require Visitors to Submit to Vehicle Searches
• Supreme Court Held Car Towing Hearing Delay Okay
• Third Circuit Embraces Administrative Exhaustion Procedural Default
• Wyoming Federal Court Defers Termination Of Consent Decree, Allows Discovery
• $90,000 Awarded to Massachusetts Prisoner for Inadequate Medical Care After Beating
• Police Denied Qualified Immunity for Fabricated Evidence
• Iowa Sex Offender Residency Restrictions Are Constitutional
• § 1983 Seeking Post Trial DNA Evidence Not Heck Barred
• $54,000 Attorney Fees Awarded in Indiana Disability Discrimination Suit
• 7th Circuit Reverses SJ Retaliatory Transfer Claims
• Montana Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Injunctive Action
• West Virginia Prisoner's Claiming Physical or Sexual Abuse Exempt from Administrative Exhaustion Req
• Force Feeding of Washington Prisoner Upheld
• A Look Inside Washington's Prison Phone Bidding System
• Continuing Claim Doctrine Applies to Deductions from Military Pay for Incarceration Costs
• No Medical Co-Pay for Indigent Illinois Prisoners
• NY Prisoner Gets § 1983 Claim Reopened on Newly Discovered Evidence
• PLRA's Exhaustion Requirement Contains Procedural Default Component
• Michigan 16-Year-Old Properly Jailed and Expelled from School
• Louisiana Prison Rule Banning "Rumors" on Internet Unconstitutional
• Service on Prisoner by Certified Mail Not Presumptively Adequate
• Pennsylvania PLRA Unconstitutional; Obscenity Ban Upheld
• First Circuit Affirms Massachusetts Guard's Sentence in Prisoner Beating
• California Lifers Must File Parole Habeas Petitions in County of Commitment
• TN Jailers Held Liable in Slip-And-Fall Case
• Tenth Circuit Affirms Summary Dismissal of In-Cell Book Limit
• Tenth Circuit Upholds Guards' Convictions for Prisoner Beating; Remands for Sentencing
• Fed Prisoner's Standard Range Sentence for Escape Affirmed
• Fed Prisoner's Five Years in Segregation During Murder Investigation Not Unconstitutional
• $275,000 Awarded to Washington Prisoner For Negligent Medical Care After Falling In Jail
• Published Opinions Are Protected Rhetorical Hyperbole And Thus Non-Actionable
• $40,000 Assessed Against WA DOC For Failure To Release Contract Medical Provider's Records
• $100,000 Awarded Hospital Guard Injured In Escape
• Oklahoma Escape Conviction Reversed for Jail Trusty
• Correctional Institution's Security Concerns Can Override Rights To Free Speech, Political Expression
• Settlement Reached In Indiana Juvenile Conditions Of Confinement Action
• Years Later, $95,000 Attorney Fees Paid in Essex County Jail Conditions Suit
• $35,000 Verdict in District of Columbia Slip and Fall
• No Indemnification to Insurance Company from Killer
• No Absolute Immunity for Prison Disciplinary Board Members
• $500,000 Awarded Kansas Citizen For 25 Days False Imprisonment
• Second Circuit: Bank Larceny Not Qualifying Federal Offense For Probationer's DNA Collection
• California Lifer Parole Denial Reversed Absent Evidence of Current Dangerousness
• $49,500 Awarded To Florida Prisoner For Unconstitutional Removal Of Gain Time Credits
• No Right To Halal Meat for Washington State Prisoner If Kosher Fits Religious Needs
• Civil Rights Act Ensures Prisoner's Chance To Prove Allegations Of Abuse
• Crawford Inapplicable to Washington Sentence Modification Hearings; Good Cause Must be Established for Hearsay Admission
• New York "Son of Sam Law" Applies To Prisoner's Military Retirement Pay
• Washington Banishment Order Vacated
• MI Detainees' Five Days in Seg Without Privileges Doesn't Violate Due Process Clause; Damages Verdic
• Lawsuit Challenging BOP's Reporter/Writer Pay Ban Regulation Remanded to District Court by David Reutter
• TN Prisoner's Photos Destroyed; § 1983 Relief May Lie
• Substantial Compliance with Administrative Remedy Rules Satisfies PLRA Despite Prisoner's Procedural
• Trial Court Lacks Authority to Deny Washington Earned Credits
• Third Circuit Invalidates BOP's 2005 CCC Regs.
• Qualified Immunity Reversed on Massachusetts Chemical Toilet Claim
• Prisoner's Civil Suit Filed When Given to Prison Officials in Texas by Matthew Clarke
• 2nd Circuit Orders Reconsideration of Non-Exhaustion Defense
• Ninth Circuit Rejects Prisoner's Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege
• Chicago Jail Social Worker Punched In Face; Suspended For Speaking Out; Awarded $300,000
• Maryland Guard's Sexual Harassment Suit Settled For $250,000
• Nebraska Administrative Remedies Must Be Fully Exhausted Or Dismissal Required
• States Duty To Protect Prisoners Is Limited To Reasonably Foreseeable Risks
• Summary Judgment Dismissal Not Proper For Factual Disputes: Conspiracy Not Arbitrational Subject
• Public Right To Judicial Proceedings Outweighs Private Parties' Confidentiality Agreements
• Children Have No Right to Protection from Abuse by State
• Washington Sex Offender Parole Violated for Possessing "The Blue Lagoon" DVD
• ADEA Exhaustion Not Jurisdictional
• Firing Whistleblowing Cop Unconstitutional
• Disciplinary Appeal Based on Same Facts May Exhaust Beating Claims Too
• Administrative Exhaustion in Medical Neglect Claims Discussed
• Ohio Prison Officials Not Liable for TB Exposure
• Inconsistent Jury Verdict on Qualified Immunity Requires New Trial
• Jail Clothing Change Process Not a Strip Search
• Unconfirmed NJ Parole Board Members Do Not Deny Due Process
• D.C. Court Upholds BOP Work Release Policy Change
• Title VII Plaintiff Can Rely on EEO Statements for Exhaustion Purposes
• Police Must Produce Informant Used to Justify Drug Raid
• Cover Up of Police Misconduct May Violate Court Access Rights
• Searches of West Virginia Prisoners Leaving Exercise Yard Upheld
• Prisoner Loses Dental Suit Against PHS
• Exposed Toilet in Maine Jail Upheld
• Class-wide Injunctions Rarely Appropriate in Individual Suits
• Color Blindness is Major Life Activity Under ADA
• Prison Officials Failure to Respond to Grievance Must be Raised in Lower Court
• Catheterizing Motorist for Urine Sample Suit Dismissed
• Beating Noisy Arkansas Prisoner Unjustified
• Texas Failure to Protect, Retaliation Claims Dismissed
• No City Liability for Policeman's Sexual Assault, Strip Search of Minor
• Post Incarceration Proposed Residence Doesn't Establish Diversity in Forfeiture Action
• Third Circuit Terminates Prison Paralegal Clinic Injunction
• No Estoppel for Failing to File EEO Notice
• No Liability for Arrestee Who Chokes to Death on Vomit While Wearing Spit Mask
• Class Settlement No Bar to Federal Parolee's Damages Suit
• Illinois Jail's Bail Bond Fees Upheld
• Arkansas Medicaid Injunction Upheld
• Moving Case off Active Docket Not a Dismissal
• BOP Skin, Retaliation Suit Dismissed
• Connecticut Guards Firing for Motorcycle Gang Membership Denied PI
• Loss of Sentence Reduction for Positive Drug Test Upheld
• Punitive Damages of 31 to 1 Upheld in Abortion Access Suit
• Supreme Court Rejects Time Limit Notices by Judges
• No Court Access Claim for Loss of Legal Papers
• Legal Mail and Attorney Call Claims Subject to PLRA
• Prison Officials Must Follow Own Grievance Procedures
• Discipline for Staff Misconduct Grievance Upheld
• No Liberty Interest in Good Time Not Yet Accrued
• Supreme Court: Involuntary Medication of Criminal Defendants Should be Rare
• BOP Enjoined in Transferring Prisoners from Work Release
• Michigan Statute Denying Appointed Counsel to Indigent Criminals Enjoined
• City Liable for Tolerating Police Brutality
• New York City Settles Guards' Assault On Prisoner For $9,900
• SICK ON THE INSIDE: Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague
• District of Columbia is "Suable Entity" Under 42 U.S.C. §1983
• 133 Prisoners Killed in Dominican Republic Prison Fire
• $1,500 Paid in False WA DOC Disciplinary Action
• Sexual Predation Rampant At FMC-Carswell; Another Employee Convicted
• California Guards Assigned Word Puzzles
• Welcome to Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row
• Abusive deposition tactics frustrate the truth-finding process in litigation. What are the proper limits of these objections?
• From the Editor by Paul Wright
• No Liberty Interest in Sex Offender Classification
• New York Disciplinary Procedures Violate Due Process, Prisoner Awarded $750
• El Paso County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Federal Deportation Detainees Stage Sit-In to Protest Delayed Hearings
• Raped Prisoner's § 1983 Suit States Claim
• Arkansas Must Acknowledge Prisoner's Muslim Name
• Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Sues Spinoff
• Virginia Prison Warden's Defamation Suit Survives Dismissal Motion
• Supreme Court Sets Standard in Establishment Clause Suits
• FTCA Does Not Apply to Prisoner's Property Mailed Outside Prison
• No Witness Protection Program for Famous Author Informant
• Palestinian Prisoners and International Law
• Obstructing Murder Investigation May Implicate Court Access
• No Immunity for School Official Taping Second Grader's Head to Tree
• Florida Public Records Exemption must be Stated with Specifity; Costs Awarded for Unlawful Refusal to Comply
• Errors in § 1983 Dismissal, Reasonableness for Indigent Mail Policy Unproven
• Qualified Immunity Denied In Pretrial Detainee's 3-Year Segregation Without Due Process
• Sexual Predator Statute Cannot Be Challenged in Habeas Corpus Proceeding
• Summary Judgment Reversed on Former Prisoner's Gender Dysphoria Claim
• Slow, Incompetent Investigation Causing Over Detention Not Deliberate Indifference
• Double Celling Unconstitutional
• $975,000 Paid in Michigan Guards Wrongful Discharge Suit
• Court Has Duty to Appoint Counsel in Appropriate Civil Cases
• Summary Judgment Against Prisoner Affirmed in Mail and Money Claim
• Summary Judgment Denied in Court Access Retaliation Claim
• BOP Must Follow its own Rules
• Prisoners Have Right to Impartial Hearing Officer and to be Informed of Adverse Evidence in Disciplinary Hearings
• California Federal Court Awards Falsely Arrested/Imprisoned Man $850,000
• No Summary Judgment on NY Failure to Protect Claim
• $450,000 Award Against CMS, County In Death of Illinois Jail Prisoner
• United States Supreme Court Rules That Federal Prisoners May Seek Damages Under the Federal Tort Claims Act for Personal Injuries
• Injunction Issued in Church Sleeping Space for Homeless
• Ohio Court Certifies Guard Gender Discrimination Class Action
• Jewish Prisoner Entitled to Kosher Diet
• BOP Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Good Time
• Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter (p 1)
• Denial of Medical Care by Police to Force Confession Illegal
• City Liable for Retaliation Against Cop Whistleblower and Code of Silence
• Supreme Court Holds Private Parties Cannot Litigate Title VIII Disparate Impact Claims
• Seminal Prison Brutality Case
• Punishment for Rude Outgoing Letter Struck Down
• Trial Required for Fatal Head Injury
• No Chain of Custody Required for Urine Samples
• Muslim Literature Ruling Affirmed
• Retaliation for Cooperating with State IG Illegal
• Dothan, AL Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Ban on Muslim Literature Struck Down
• BOP Ban on Religious Headbands Upheld
• Alcoholics Anonymous Parole Requirement Violates Establishment Clause
• Beating States Claim
• $12,000 Award Against Jail Guard who Witnessed Police Beating and Did Nothing
• Suspension of Social Security Benefits for Prisoners Upheld
• Abuse by Female Guard States Claim
• Legal Mail Marking Requirement Upheld
• Ban on Gay Publications Upheld
• Forcing Prisoner to Do Work He is Incapable of Performing Violates 8th Amendment
• Race Discrimination in Seg Placement and Parole Denial States Claim
• Grievance Retaliation Unconstitutional
• MI Disciplinary Hearing Officers Entitled to Judicial Immunity
• Sex Offenders Have No Right to Treatment
• Denial of Visits Based on Race States Claim
• OH Jail Injunction Affirmed
• Visitation Denial Based on Race States Claim
• Elimination of Boxing Program for Racial Bias States Claim
• Punishment for Publishing Newsletter Unconstitutional
• Lucas County, OH Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Punishment for Legal Activities States Claim
• Ban on Sharing Literature in Seg Unit Questioned
• IL Jail Conditions Suit States Claim
• BOP Ad-Seg Conditions on Political Prisoner Limited
• No Right to Operate Business or Buy Cheap Food
• AL Jail Injunction Affirmed
• Retaliatory Transfer Standard Explained
• Failure to File Disciplinary Rules with Correct Agency Does Not Violate Due Process
• Censorship of Religious Mail Reversed
• WA Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Release
• Jail Ban on Hardcover Books Struck Down
• Transfer for Law Library Access
• PI Granted to Allow Visits
• Court Denies Appointment of Counsel in Medical Case
• Counsel Appointed in Conditions Suit
• AL Jail Fined for Violating Population Cap
• Disciplinary Hearings Require Disclosure of Evidence
• BOP Liable under State Law for Failure to Protect
• Class Certification Confers Subject Matter Jurisdiction
• Jail Newspaper Ban Unconstitutional
• Denial of Witnesses in Pee-Shy Urine Case Reversed
• Paraplegic States Claim over Ad-Seg Conditions
• Prisoners Have Property Interest in their Money
• Louisiana Jail Sanctioned with Contempt, Fines and Attorney Fees
• Too Low Attorney Fee Award in Jail Beating Vacated
• BOP Good Time Credit Pro-Rated for Disciplinary Loss
• Contracting Tuberculosis in Prison States Claim
• Denial of Paper Enjoined
• BOP Pays $7,000 in Pork Handling Suit
• Don't Sue Agreement Enforced in Jail Fire
• County Liable for Attorney Fees in Jail Contempt Sanction
• Informant Statements Require Reliability Finding in Record
• $4,226 Awarded in Missouri Filthy Cell Suit
• Property Interest in Trust Fund Money
• Kentucky Jail Officials Held in Contempt for Overcrowding
• Segregation Prisoners Entitled to Exercise and Showers
• Contempt for Disciplinary Hearing Injunction Violations Upheld
• Jail Has Duty to Provide Legal Material
• $4,226 Awarded in Filthy Cell Suit
• Confidential Informants Require Credibility Finding
• Transexual Case Remanded for Trial
• $680 in Damages Awarded for Ad-Seg Placement
• Warden Liable for $25,000 Damage Award in Mail Censorship Suit
• Prison Officials Liable for Holding Prisoner Past Release Date
• Injunction, Damages in Prison Rape Affirmed
• Blood for Good Time Creates Liberty Interest
• Censorship of Critical Report Struck Down
• Trial Required in Jail Beating
• Forced Psychotropic Drugging Verdict of $17,000 Affirmed
• Retaliation for Prisoner's Inability to Work Violates 8th Amendment
• Random Tear Gassing Claim Not Estopped; Rule Banning Discovery by Pro Se Litigants Voided
• Rectal Probe Searches Require Reasonable Suspicion
• Right to Impartial Disciplinary Hearing Officers
• Prison Guard Convicted of Filing False Disciplinary Reports
• Retaliatory Transfer, Arm Smashing by Guards, Denial of Care State Claim
• Grievance Retaliation Unlawful
• FL Jail Pays $500,000 in Medical Neglect Suit
• Right to Be Jailhouse Lawyer Discussed
• Juveniles Enjoined from Placement in Adult Jails
• MO Jury Awards $781,000 in BOP Suicide
• Restitution Allowed in Prison Killing
• Jury Interrogatories Reviewed for Plain Error
• Racial Violence Against White Prisoners Condoned
• Due Process Required for Disciplinary Segregation
• Retaliation Claims Have Three Part Test
• Retaliatory Transfer Illegal
• Transexualism is a Serious Medical Need
• Drug Infraction Not Moot Upon Release
• $7,000 Award in MD Jail Strip Search; Fees Remanded
• Puerto Rican Prisons' Attempt to Evade Injunction Denied by Court
• Change in Infraction Level Requires Due Process in Wisconsin
• BOP Ordered to Provide Kosher Diet
• Prevailing Party in Disciplinary Suit Awarded Fees
• Indiana Prison Conditions Cruel and Unusual
• Due Process Violated by Property Confiscation
• Immunity for Shooting Escaping Prisoners
• Puerto Rican Prison Officials in Contempt of Overcrowding Order
• Disciplinary Hearing Officer Cannot Be Related to Infracting Guard
• Puerto Rican Jail Ordered Closed
• Retaliation for Filing Grievances Violates First Amendment
• Right to Interpreter and Witnesses at NY Disciplinary Hearings
• Change in FL Good Time System violates Ex Post Facto
• Right to Elective Abortions
• Puerto Rican Prison System Unconstitutional
• No Qualified Immunity for Rectal Searches
• No Qualified Immunity for Failing to Protect Jail Prisoner
• Confiscation of Legal Papers States Claim
• No Subpoena Required to Record Prison Phone Calls
• Damages Awarded in NY Urine Test Suit
• Confidential Informant Statements Reviewed by Court In Camera
• Political Beliefs Merit Control Unit Placement
• No Qualified Immunity in Prison Murder
• Impartial Hearing Officer Required in Disciplinary Hearing
• Attorney Fee Award Increased in Conditions Case
• Overcrowding Must Cause Harm to Be Actionable
• NM Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity for Not Releasing Prisoner
• Mail Between Prisoner and Former Prison Employee Allowed
• Prisoners Can't Represent Each Other in Court
• No Attorney Fees for Prisoner Paralegal
• Religious Headgear Ban Upheld
• Okay to Withhold Water from Prisoner Who Refuses to Work
• Prison Ordered Closed
• Statutory Forfeiture of Prison Cash Upheld
• Prevailing Pro Se Prisoners Entitled to Costs, But Not Fees
• Right to Attorney Contact Visits
• Prisoners Retain Some Right to Bodily Privacy
• Strip Searches for Misdemeanor Arrestees Illegal
• Equitable Tolling Applies to AEDPA
• Right to Prison Abortions Unclear
• Jail Denial of Mattress States Claim, Okay to Strip Search Violent Arrestees
• Vegetarian Diet Required for Seventh Day Adventist
• Unsanitary Food, Contaminated Water State Claim
• Court Approves Draconian Seg Conditions
• Prison Chaplains Limited in Authority
• Cost Bills Must Be Opposed in Timely Manner
• Prisoner Can't be Forced to Work Beyond Physical Means, Handle Items Forbidden by Faith
• Attorney Fees Awarded in Legal Mail Suit
• Disciplinary Finding Must Give Evidence Relied On
• Okay to Stamp Mail as Originating in Jail
• No Right to Interest Bearing Accounts
• Court Questions Prison Administrative Remedies
• Leg Amputation Requires Trial
• Infliction of Fear with Tasers Unconstitutional
• Charges Alone Don't Justify Ad-Seg for Detainees
• Attorney Fees Awarded in OK Jail Suit
• Prisoner Has Right to Keep Infraction Report Before Hearing
• Denial of Newspaper and Medical Care States Claim
• Out of State Counsel Entitled to Full Fees, Costs
• Prisoners Have Right to Confidential Meetings with Counsel
• Prisoners Have No Right to Give Legal Assistance
• Jury Instructions on Eighth Amendment Claim
• Special Master Authority Limited
• Fire Hosing Prisoners Damage Award Affirmed
• Prisoners Win Conditions Suit
• Catalyst Theory Allows Fees in Strip Search Suit
• Transferred Prisoners Entitled to Sending States Good Time Credits and Benefits
• Prosecutors Immune for Seizing Arrestees Prosthetic Leg
• PI Granted to Disclose Records Under PAMII
• Postage Stamp Ban Permissible
• No Right to Breastfeed
• Ad-Seg Phone Limit Upheld
• Stamp Ban, Mail Denial in Segregation Upheld
• Prisoners Have Right to Pay for Photocopies
• Marion Lockdown Upheld, BOP Must Follow Own Rules
• Exclusion of Sex Offenders from Work Release Upheld
• No Right to Typewriter
• Mandatory AIDS Testing Upheld
• Section 2241 Proper Remedy for BOP Disciplinary Hearings
• Damage Award in Denial of Clothes and Bedding Affirmed
• Sleeping on Floor Violates Due Process Rights of Detainee
• Ban on Documentary Evidence in Disciplinary Hearings Struck Down
• Probation Officers Entitled to Absolute Immunity when Performing Court Function
• Prisoner Ordered Transferred to Escape Warden's Death Threats
• Ban on Hardcover Books Unconstitutional
• Denial of Visits Upheld
• Medical Co-Pay Challenge Dismissed, Denial of Medication & Surgery Remanded
• Prisoner Strip Searches Upheld
• Overcrowding Conditions State Claim
• Women Prisoners Not Entitled to Work Release
• Right to Complain Clearly Established
• Paralegal Ban Denies Effective Assistance of Counsel
• Protective Custody Conditions Suit Remanded
• Collect Call Phone System Doesn't Violate Right to Court Access
• Disparate Treatment of PC Prisoners, Denial of Exercise States Claim
• No Right to Smoke
• Ban on Disciplinary Hearing Witnesses Struck Down
• Forcing Prisoner to Do Work He is Incapable of Performing Violates 8th Amendment
• No Right to Family Visits
• Suspicionless Car Searches of Prison Visitors Upheld
• State Liable for Attorney Fees in Beating Suit
• U.S. Liable to Victim for Failing to Treat Psychotic Prisoner
• Urine Testing for Drugs Upheld
• No Right to Personal Nude Photos
• Retaliatory Strip Searches State Claim
• No Right to Radio
• No Right to UNICOR Employment
• No Right to Funeral Furlough
• Opening Legal Mail Unconstitutional
• Restitution Allowed At Prison Disciplinary Hearing
• Damage Award for Strip Celled Utah Jail Detainee Affirmed
• South Carolina Jail Prisoner Awarded $2,000 In Mediation For Work-Related Injury
• Legal/Media Mail and Attorney Visits Protected
• Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Exposure to Cold, Elements and Denial of Religious Activities States Claim
• Prisoner Has Right to call Disciplinary Witnesses
• Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Notice of Complaint Deficiencies before Dismissal
• Due Process for Control Unit Placement
• No Right to Grievance Procedure, Confidential Media Mail
• Female Guards Can Observe Naked Male Prisoners
• California Jail Strip Search States Claim
• IL Jail Strip Search Damage Awards Affirmed
• Denial of Religious Services in Segregation States Claim
• ID Jail Strip Searches Illegal
• Punishment for Prisoner with Medical Reason not to Shave States Claim
• Wicca Is a Religion
• No Right to Artificial Insemination
• Rectal Search Requires Reasonable Suspicion
• Jail Vermin States Claim
• Appointment of Counsel in 7th Circuit Discussed
• Denial of Clothes Upheld
• Houston v. Lack Tolls Statute of Limitations
• IL Jail Detainee's Conditions and Retaliation Suit States Claim
• Jail Strip Search Damage Award Upheld
• No Right to Clergyman of Choice
• 12 Years in Segregation May Violate 8th Amendment
• Jail Transfer of Pretrial Detainee May Violate Right to Counsel
• Single Case of Food Poisoning Okay
• Virginia Jail Strip Searches Illegal
• Sheriff Liable for Guard Hiring in Suicide
• Prisoners Have Right to Marry
• Jail Detainee Has Right of Court Access
• NE Jail Liable for Strip Searches
• Case Can't Be Dismissed Because Prisoner Doesn't Appear in Courtroom
• Suit Dismissal for Failure to Appear Improper
• Snitch-jacketing States Retaliation Claim
• MS Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Confidential Informant Testimony Must Be Reliable
• Prisoner Entitled to Staff Assistance at Disciplinary Hearing
• EMIT Test Result Supports Infraction
• Religious Name Changes Allowed
• State Not Liable for Death of Guards
• TX Jail Liable for Strip Searches
• Retaliation for Use of Grievance System Unconstitutional
• Damage Award Upheld in Vaginal Search
• CO Jail Strip Searches Illegal
• Jim Crow Segregation Laws Illegal
• Overcrowding Ills Described
• NJ Death Row Prisoners Entitled to Court Access
• WA Disciplinary Hearings Exempt from APA
• NJ Jail Held in Contempt
• $22,500 Awarded, Due Process Required for Forced Drugging
• Informants Require Reliability Evaluation
• Attorney Fees Deposited in Escrow Due to Defendant Intransigence
• Due Process Required when Porn Censored
• Atlanta Jail Conditions Unconstitutional
• Prisoner Entitled to Possess Disciplinary Reports before Hearing
• Medication Verdict Vacated over Witness, Nominal Damages
• Due Process Not Required when Mail with Criminal Plans Seized
• Prison Officials Liable for Lack of Mental Health Care
• Unconstitutional to Punish Prisoner for Court Access
• Louisiana Seg Conditions Unconstitutional
• Liberty Interests for PC Prisoners Discussed
• Guard Attack Suit Wrongly Dismissed at Spears Hearing
• RI Jail Liable for Attorney Fees
• Destruction of Court Papers States Claim
• Prisoners in Protective Custody Entitled to Law Library Access
• Single EMIT Test Result Enough To Convict WA Prisoners
• Jail Detainees Have Right to Meet with Counsel
• KS Statute Allowing Blood Samples for DNA Databank Upheld
• Prison Rules Require Adequate Notice, Supervisor Liable in Disciplinary Appeals
• Legal Aid Lawyers Entitled to Fees in Jail Conditions Suit
• Boxcar Cells Unconstitutional
• Warden Liable for Inhumane Seg Conditions/Placement
• Second Hand Smoke Exposure States Claim
• Qualified Immunity for Urine Samples in Presence of Parole Officer
• No Right to Medical Care beyond that Given by Prison
• CO Medical Co-Pay Fee Overturned, Plaintiffs Awarded Atty Fees
• $210,000 Awarded in Tennessee Jail Heat Stroke Death
• Retaliatory Transfer States Claim
• Governor Held in Contempt in RI Crowding Suit
• City Liable when Informant Killed
• Jail Ban on Publications and Exercise Enjoined
• BOP Media Access Rule Upheld
• No Right to Copies of Cases when Law Library Access Available
• Prisoner Organizers Transferred for Safety from Staff
• Late Notice of Appeal Allowed when Prison Officials Don't Provide Paper
• Individual Capacity Claims Can Be Inferred From Complaint
• District Court Awards Attorney Fees on Forced Medication Claim
• Section 1983 Proper to Escape Guard Threats
• Retaliatory Beatings Violate First Amendment, Damages Awarded
• Damages and Attorney Fees Awarded in Forced Medication Suit
• $75,000 Awarded to Prisoner for Inadequate Medical Care
• Guards Liable for Failing to Protect Snitch
• Sixth Circuit Orders Reconsideration of Attorney Fees Claim in Drug Testing Case
• Fourteenth Amendment Claims Not Exempt from Physical Injury Requirement
• Prison Strip Search Policy Reasonable, Tasers Okay
• Class Action Suit Doesn't Affect Individual Damage Suits
• Dismissed Retaliation Claim Reversed
• GA Detainee Awarded $50,000 in Damages, Plus Fees, Over Jail Conditions
• "Three Strikes" Rule's "Imminent Danger" Exception Applies at Filing Time
• State Law Claim Review Standard in Federal Action
• Fifth Circuit Affirms, Remits TDCJ Employee's Damages Award
• Ten Years in Segregation Unconstitutional
• Sixth Circuit Finds No Deliberate Indifference in Prison Employee's Death
• NY Prisoner Awarded Damages in Disciplinary Hearing Suit
• Prison and CMS Liable for Prisoner's Asthma Death
• Fifth Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment in Sheriff's Property Liability Case
• Prison Doctors Denied Summary Judgment on Deliberate Indifference Claim
• Prison Officials Denied Qualified Immunity in Strip Search of Visitor
• FL Good Time Change Violates Ex Post Facto
• Segregation for Complaining about Jail Conditions Struck Down
• Prisons Have Affirmative Duty to Protect Prisoners from Rape
• Denial of Disciplinary Nearing Witnesses Illegal; $250 Damages Awarded
• Infraction Finding Must State Evidence Relied On
• Effective Assistance of Counsel Not a Right in Civil Litigation
• Damages in Disciplinary Hearing Case Upheld
• Summary Judgment Denial Reversed, Mail Restrictions Okayed
• Qualified Immunity Defense Waived in Jail Suit
• Injunction Entered on Jail Isolation Cell
• Guard Liable for Snitchjacketing
• Shi'ite Prisoner's Complaint States §1983 Claim Against DOCS' Sunni Imams
• Censorship of Photos States §1983 Claim
• No Immunity for 10 Day Cell Confinement
• Texas Attorney-Client Interference Damage and Fee Award Upheld
• Police Not Properly Served Despite Government Employee Saying So
• Judicial Immunity Does Not Bar Injunctive Relief or Attorney Fees
• Black Voters' Disenfranchisement Claims Dismissed
• Eighth Circuit Reverses South Dakota Prison Conditions Decision on Double Celling
• Prisoner Not Covered by Fair Labor Standards Act
• Prison Disciplinary Conviction on Unidentified Informant's Testimony Okay
• Seventh Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Prisoner's Retaliation Claim
• Prison Superintendents Not Dismissed from Female Prisoner's Sexual Assault Claim
• U.S. Fourth Circuit Upholds Censorship of Prisoner Magazine
• Harassment in Cell Searches Not Permitted
• Denial of Religious Publications States a Claim
• Summary Judgment Inappropriate in Arizona Religion Case
• Seventh Circuit Reverses Habeas Corpus Filed on Habitual Rules Violation
• Nominal Damage Relief Does Not Warrant Attorney Fee Award
• Sixth Circuit Reverses Jury in Retaliation Case, Verdict Was Unreasonable
• E.R. Doctor Not "State Actor"; Prison Guards Liable for Assault
• Administrative Exhaustion Not Required Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• Attorney Fee Awards Determined on Case Facts
• Clemency Proceedings Require Only Rudimentary Due Process
• PLRA Controls Hourly Rate of Attorney Fees
• Ban on Interprison Travel for Religious Services Overturned
• Sixth Circuit Orders New Trial in Prisoner's Medical Care Complaint
• Denial of Continuance on Summary Judgment Proper, Summary Judgment Improper
• Prisoners Have Right to Correspond and Marry
• Tenth Circuit Reverses Dismissal on Prison Visitation Case
• Federal Death Penalty Held Unconstitutional
• Divided Tenth Circuit Panel Reverses Jail Prisoner's Dismissed Claims
• Retaliation Claim Legitimate, Res Judicata Claim Not
• Prisoners' Rights to Correspond and Marry Upheld
• Seventh Circuit Requires Notice of Summary Judgment
• Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Prisoner's Retaliation Claim
• Prisoners Have No Absolute Right to Visits
• Driver's License Examiner Denied Qualified Immunity in Prisoner's Sexual Assault
• Muslim Prisoners' Right to Jumu'ah Denied
• Officers' Convictions Upheld, One Case Reversed for Sixth Amendment Violation
• Intercepted Conversation of Jail Visitor Not Protected
• Fourth Circuit Affirms No Privacy Right in Cell Searches
• Tenth Circuit Affirms Total Exhaustion Rule
• Sixth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Prison Rape Case
• Tennessee Disenfranchisement Law Upheld
• Seventh Circuit Discusses Res Judicata and Collateral Estoppel
• Parents of Jail Suicide Victim Have Familial Association Right
• Supreme Court: No Right to Counsel or Cross Examination in Disciplinary Hearings
• Qualified Immunity Denial Upheld, Punishment Requires "Some Evidence"
• Permanent Injury Not Required to State Excessive Force Claim
• IFP Complaint Not Dismissible Sua Sponte for Failure to State a Claim
• Attorney Fees Allowed Under § 1988 in State Court Suits
• Prisoners Have Right to Notice of Rules
• Work Release Prisoners Are Employees Under Fair Labor Standards Act
• Reasons for Refusing to Call Witnesses Need Not Be Documented
• New York Jail Good Time Statute Held Constitutional
• Damages Denied, Surgery Ordered in Prisoner Medical Claim
• Exculpatory DNA Evidence Insufficient for New Trial
• $3500 Punitive Damage Award Upheld for Dropping Shackled Prisoner
• Denial of Physical Therapy States Claim Under 42 U.S.C. §1983
• Under "Compelling Circumstances" Government Must Issue Subpoenas for Free
• Texas Sheriff's Use of Force Files Are Public Information
• Due Process Clause Not Implicated by Guard's Negligence
• FBI Can Use Prisoners' Phone Calls for Any Lawful Purpose
• No Supervisor Liability in Excessive Force Case
• Supreme Court Holds No Special Access to Prisoners for Media
• Prison Mattress Manufacturer Denied PI
• Beard Length Restriction Upheld, Prior Ruling Reversed
• Attorney Fee Award, 30 Day Punitive Isolation Limit Upheld
• Common Area Contraband Disciplinary Conviction Upheld
• New York County Could Be Liable for Jail Strip Searches
• Sworn Beating Complaint Defeats Summary Judgment
• Dismissed Medical Claims Reversed by Federal Tenth Circuit
• Prisoners Have No Liberty Interest in Prison Housing Assignment
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Failure to Protect Claim
• Beating Damages Award Upheld, Case Remanded for Further Damages Consideration
• Second Circuit Cites Factors for Appointing Counsel for Indigent Litigants
• Punitive Damages Can Be Awarded in § 1983 Claim
• HIV+ Plaintiff Can Be Anonymous in Needle Exchange Police Harassment Suit
• Suit for Retaliatory Discipline Dismissed
• Ad-Seg for Eleven Months Without Review States Due Process Claim
• Sixth Circuit Applies Publisher-Only Rule to Publications
• Summary Judgment Cannot Be Granted Solely on Failure to Respond
• Oregon Court Permanently Enjoins Outgoing Mail Ban
• Expert Witness Fees Not Recoverable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1988
• Prison Ban on Writing Religious Leaders Invalidated, Muslim Magazine Allowed
• Work Release Prisoners Employees for FLSA Purposes
• Sender of Mail Entitled to Due Process Protections
• Fifth Circuit Upholds Sexually Explicit Publication Ban
• Eighth Circuit Upholds Outgoing Mail Ban
• Ninth Circuit Invalidates Sexually Explicit Photograph/Publication Ban
• Publisher-Only Rule May Be Invalid as to Authors
• PI Granted on Refusal to Deliver Prisoner's Mail Due to Name Change
• Particulars to Be Considered in Indigent Prisoner's Request for Counsel
• Attorney Fee Award in Illinois Medical Suit
• Ninth Circuit Assesses Double Costs, Fees, and Damages Against Montana Prison Officials
• Oregon Court Denies PI Against Outgoing Mail Ban
• Publisher and Prisoner Entitled to Due Process
• Eighth Circuit Upholds Seizure of Incoming Mail Without Notice
• Racial Discrimination Case Reversed and Remanded for Damages
• Different Standards for Incoming/Outgoing Mail Censorship
• Michigan Sex Offender Registration Enjoined
• Ninth Circuit Discusses Common Law Mailbox Rule
• Eighth Circuit Approves Sexually Explicit Reading Rooms
• Prisoner Had Standing to Enforce Consent Decree
• Ban on Writing Minors Without Parental Consent Invalidated
• Prisoners Have No Right to Face-to-Face Media Interviews
• Nude Photograph Case Was Not Frivolous
• Fourth Circuit Upholds "Special Mail" Label Rule
• Reimbursement of Prison Guard's Legal Expenses Denied Despite Verdict
• Oregon Court Invalidates Civil Committee's Treatment Plan
• Second Circuit Approves Inspection of Outgoing Business Mail
• Attorney Fee Award in New Jersey Jail Case
• Summary Judgment Precluded in Beating, Qualified Immunity for Hearing Officer
• Law Library Must Provide Paper to Indigent Prisoners
• Jail Official Gets Immunity for Delaying Prisone'rs Release for One Day
• Limitations on Indigent Mail Reasonable, Paroled Prisoner's Interest Moot
• Procedure Required for Sending/Receiving Sealed Media Mail
• Washington DOC Pays $4,000 in Parking Lot Slip and Fall
• Washington DOC Pays $1,500 to Settle Legal Mail/Discipline Suit
• Washington DOC Pays $1,200 in Retaliation Suit
• Washington DOC Recreation Injury Suit Settled for $9,500
• Ohio Prisoner Mail Censorship Rule Violates Due Process
• Washington DOC Pays $5,500 for Faulty Stairs
• Qualified Immunity Granted in Mail Inspection Case
• Supreme Court Discusses § 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status
• Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Segregation Mail Ban
• No Punishment for Possessing Inflammatory Papers, $1,000 Jury Award Upheld
• Washington DOC Pays $1,063.49 to Settle Slip and Fall
• Threat at Disciplinary Hearing Raises Due Process Issue
• Seventh Circuit Upholds BOP Nude Photograph Ban
• Washington DOC Pays $50,000 to Injured Contractor
• Washington DOC Pays $2,500 to Settle Disabled Discrimination Suit
• Tape Recorded Deposition Discretionary
• Prison Officials Must Support Mail Policy With Evidence
• Washington DOC Settles Ferry Fall Suit for $60,000
• Escaped Prisoner Has Limited Expectation of Privacy
• Washington DOC Pays $4,500 in Kitchen Hose Explosion
• Dismissal of Retaliation Claim Reversed
• New York Prison Censorship Rules Invalidated
• Third Circuit Upholds "Publisher Only" Rule
• Indiana Prison Overcrowded with Inadequate Medical Care
• Tenth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Juvenile Mail Censorship
• Ninth Circuit Upholds Washington Legal Mail Inspection Rule
• Washington DOC Pays $5,750 in Bunk Fall Case
• Georgia Prison Censorship Rules Violate Procunier Standard
• Court Ordered Interception of Mail Requires Notice & Hearing
• Washington DOC Pays $60,000 in Prisoner Work Injury
• Prisoner Burned Washington DOC Paid $4,500
• Limited Law Library Time, Postage, Not Denial of Access
• $23,000 Washington DOC Negligence Baseball Field Maintenance Settlement
• Evidence From Tape-Recorded Conversation Not Admissible
• No Legal Malpractice Claim Without Post-Conviction Relief
• Washington DOC Pays $1,700 in Faulty Kettle Claim
• $32,500 Paid in WA Bus Crash Injury Suit
• Trial Court Must Make Fact Findings Before Ordering Stun Belt
• Summary Judgment Denied to Jail Guards Who Killed Mentally Ill Prisoner
• Qualified Immunity Ends Lawsuit by Juvenile Raped by Staff
• Iowa Prisoner Has No Right to Blood Samples Disposed of According to Religious Beliefs
• Washington DOC Pays $156 for Losing Court Tape
• Texas District Court Awards $174,020 in Attorney Fees in Prisoner Beating Case
• Washington DOC pays $1,000 to Settle Work Suit
• Washington DOC Pays $1,750 in Soapy Shower Slip and Fall
• Washington DOC Pays $15,000 for Scaffolding Injury
• Washington DOC Pays $78,150 in Bus Slip and Fall
• District Court Reversed in Christian Identity Case
• Pennsylvania Prisoner Has Right to Diversity Jurisdiction to Ensure Access to Courts
• Washington DOC Pays $80,000 in Guard Slip and Fall
• New Jersey Ad-Seg Prisoners Have No Right to Education
• Oklahoma Prisoner Has Right to File Civil Complaint to Enforce Property Rights
• Washington Prisoner Has Right to Due Process at Disciplinary Hearing
• Federal Court Holds PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Applies After Release
• Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity Denied on Deliberate Indifference Claim
• DOCS Denied Summary Judgment on Mail, Retaliation, and Prison Conditions
• Ohio Supreme Court Finds Sex Offender Labeling Without Hearing Constitutional
• Stun Gunning & Straitjacketing Prisoner Okay
• Summary Judgment on Wrongful Arrest Reversed
• Michigan Use of Food Loaf Violates Prisoners' Due Process Rights
• Prisoners Not Entitled to Minimum Wages
• Motion to Quash Subpeona of DNA Sample Denied
• Magistrate Judge Can Investigate Frivolity of Complaint
• Maryland Son of Sam Statute Violates First Amendment
• Washington Pays $90,000 in Roof Collapse
• Loss of Good Time Credits Without Notice Warrants Habeas Relief
• Sixth Circuit Rules Tennessee Prisoner Has Liberty Interest in Parole
• Washington DOC Settles Retaliation Suit for $815
• Wisconsin Court Access and Conditions Claims Remanded
• Washington DOC Pays $10,810 in Wheelchair Discrimination Suit
• District of Columbia Challenges Census Bureau Enumerating Prisoners as Residents of Virginia
• Good Faith Defense Analyzed Under Objective and Subjective Factors; $210,000 Jail Conditions Verdict
• Eighth Amendment Conditions of Confinement Claim Must Show Deliberate Indifference
• 2nd Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Incoming Mail Censorship
• South Dakota Prisons' Conditions of Confinement Are Unconstitutional
• U.S. Citizen Labeled Enemy Combatant Has Detention Examined Under Prison "Some Evidence" Standard.
• Negligent Public Defender Defense Against Dirty Los Angeles Cops Nets Falsely Convicted Man $6.5 Million; Court Vacates Verdict Million; Court Vacates Verdict by John Dannenberg
• Delaware Life Sentence = 45 years; Ruling May Affect 200 Prisoners; Court Reverses Self After Prosecutors Whine
• Race Discrimination in Hobby-craft Privileges Unconstitutional
• Dismissed Suits by Prisoners Liable for Filing Fees Under §1915(g)
• Physical, Mental Suffering Resulting from Extra Duty States Claim
• Prisoner Presence at Disciplinary Hearing During Favorable Testimony Constitutionally Required
• Pretrial Detainees, Unsentenced Prisoners Entitled To Stay At Local Jail
• Ban on Staff Witnesses in Disciplinary Hearings Unconstitutional
• Denial of Mail and Phone Privileges Unreasonable Disciplinary Measures
• US Supreme Court Holds Forced Drugging of Mentally Ill Prisoner Not Unconstitutional
• Religious Retaliatory Transfers Unconstitutional
• Supreme Court Defines "Obscenity"
• Maryland Prisoner Awarded $750 for Book Confiscation, Wrongful Segregation
• Fifth Circuit Holds Conditions in Texas Prisons Unconstitutional
• Virginia Jail Acted Under Color Of State Law For § 1983 Purposes
• Minnesota Prison's Indigent, Legal Mail Policies Constitutional
• Confiscation of Social Security Benefits Actionable Under Rehabilitation Act
• County Prosecutors Acting Outside Their Authority Lose Absolute Immunity
• Order Closing Missouri's Platte County Jail Affirmed on Appeal
• Pro Se Complaints Held to Less Stringent Standards
• Supreme Court Restricts RICO Act's Application Against Protestors
• Inspection of Outgoing Legal Mail Upheld
• $200,000 Paid for Georgia Prisoner's Improper Detainment
• Third Circuit Holds Right to Jumu'ah Services Outweighs Security Concerns
• Chain of Custody Defect Doesn't Void Drug Test
• Indigent Mental Patients Court Access Rights Upheld
• CA Guard Granted Qualified Immunity for Shooting Prisoner in Yard Fight
• $204,472 Paid in WA Sexual Harassment Suit
• S.Ct. Holds Prison Officials Cannot Censor Court Pleadings
• $10,000 Florida Jury Award for Injunction and Confinement by False Claim
• Washington Prisoner Awarded $125 for Failure to Timely Respond to Public Records Request
• DNA Collection From Prisoner Constitutional
• Jail Policies Regarding HIV Infected Prisoner Unconstitutional
• New York: Witness Testimony Issues Violated Due Process
• Excessive Account Deductions May State First Amendment Claim
• Broken Chain of Custody not Basis for Habeas Corpus Relief
• Habeas Prevents Transfer for Medical Reasons
• Connecticut: Suit Over Prisoner's Suicide Settles for $450,000
• Georgia: Sheriff, Jail Personnel Not Liable in Prisoner's Suicide
• Missouri Supreme Court Allows Actual Innocence Claims in Death Penalty Habeas
• Utah: $490,000 Verdict for Untreated Hypertension, Vision Loss, Renal Failure
• Wrongful Death, Arrest of New Mexico Epileptic Settles For $1,250,000
• Iowa Jail Employee's Whistleblower Jury Award Reduced to $258,027 by Matthew Clarke
• Limits on Prisoner Legal Mail and Photocopy Expenses Affirmed
• $60,000 Tort Claim Settlement In Washington Employee Discrimination Suit
• WA Mail Theft Whistleblower's Emotional Distress Award Vacated
• $35,000 Verdict Upheld in North Carolina Fire Hosing, Gassing, and Beatings; Supervisors Liable
• Buddhist Prisoner Retaliated Against; District Court Abused Discretion, Reversed
• BOP Liable for Medical Neglect under State Tort Law
• Expert Testimony Fails to Prove Subjective Mental Intent of Psychiatrist
• Georgia Jury Awards $15,000 for Illegal Strip Search
• Former Jail Prisoner's §1983 Complaint Reversed to Add Damages
• Deputy Not Sheriff, Liable for Assault, Attorney Fees
• "Absurd" California Child Visiting Regulation Survives Challenge - For The Moment by John Dannenberg
• No Fourteenth Amendment Violation Resulting From Losses During Cell Search
• Washington Prisoner Has Right to Counsel in Racial Discrimination Suit
• No Permanent Injury Requirement in Excessive Use of Force Claim
• $4.1 Million Settlement Approved in Deadly Ohio Riot Litigation
• Sex Offender Registration Modified
• $7,500 Paid to Washington DOC Employee for Negligent Investigation, Defamation, and Invasion of Privacy
• United States District Court Rules Alabama Department of Corrections Violates Prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment Rights with Its Segregation Policies
• Fifth Circuit Refuses to Hear Appeal of Attorneys' Fees Order
• Raped Georgia Prisoner Awarded $300,000 Against Jailer, City
• Fact Issues Regarding Alternative New York Grievance Procedure Precludes Summary Judgment
• Lifesaving Medical Treatment Mandated for IA Prisoner Despite Refusal
• Deliberate Indifference to Strong Likelihood that Prisoner Will Commit Suicide Implicates Eighth Amendment
• Washington State Prison Nurse's Wrongful Termination Claim Survives Summary Judgment
• Eleventh Circuit Overturns Order Prohibiting Access To Hearings, Documents
• Remitted Damages Award Upheld in Excessive Force Claim
• The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Judgment and $25,000 Award Against Prison Guard For Injuries Prisoner Received When Stabbed
• Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments Protect Against Excessive Use of Force
• KY Guards Found Liable in Denial of Medical Care.
• $3,500 Paid in Obstruction to Resolve Detainer and Denial of Notary By WA DOC
• $1,500 For Illegally Extending Term of Community Supervision
• Detainees Entitled To Contact Visits, To Be Present During Shakedowns
• New York Department of Corrections Sued Over Systemic Rape of Women Prisoners by Ava Azizi
• Right to Assist Other Prisoners Includes Right to Possess Pleadings
• San Quentin's AC Unit Conditions Unconstitutional, Tear Gas, Restraints, no Exercise Enjoined
• Retaliation Suit Wrongly Dismissed
• Summary Judgment Granted to Virginia Jail Officials in Pretrial Detainee's Death
• Texas Jailhouse Lawyer Prohibition Unconstitutional
• Denial Of Time Extension, Dismissal Of Claim Ruled Abuse Of Discretion
• Illinois Prisoner Entitled to $5 Per Diem Against Fine; Court Has No Authority to Withhold Corrections Wages
• Oklahoma Attorney General's Opinion Overrides Prison Officials; Court's Jurisdiction to Continue Until Assurance Violation Will Cease
• Coerced Participation in Religious Substance Abuse Program Unconstitutional; Prison Officials Granted Qualified Immunity
• Pre-Release Recession of Parole Allowed if Parole Not a Right
• Sua Sponte Dismissal of Disciplinary Challenge Reversed; Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Right to Be Heard
• Jury Awards $136,501 to Handicapped Michigan Prisoner Sent to Virginia Prison
• New York Appeals Court Upholds Prisoner's Disciplinary for 9-11 Comment
• California Attorney Richard Dangler Sanctioned for "Shameful, Frivolous" Prisoner Appeals; Resigns by John E Dannenberg
• Soverign Immunity Bars Prisoners ADA Damage Claim
• Isolated Incident of Legal Mail Tampering and Access to Deputy Sheriff not Clear Right for Injunctive Relief
• Placing Pre-Trial Detainees in Segregation Requires Due Process
• BOP IFRP Program Upheld
• Retaliatory Transfer Illegal; No Right to Operate Business
• Denial of Injunction Against Federal Guard's Sexual Harassment/Retaliation Reversed
• Disagreement on Medical Treatment Fails to State Constitutional Violation; Summary Judgment Granted Defendants
• $130,000 Settlement in Former Prison Employee Harassment Suit
• CO Warden Improperly Denied Summary Judgment Because She Had No Control Over Civil Rights Violators
• Louisiana Sheriff Sues Parish For Revenue Generated From Jail Operation by Bob Williams
• Participation in Internal Affairs Investigation Doesn't Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion
• No Right to Free Photocopies
• Prison Magazine Censorship Reversed
• Summary Judgment Precluded in Beating, Common Law Remedy for Confiscation Claim
• Disciplinary Hearing Requires Fact Finding
• Ferry Rams Dock, State of Washington Pays $1,294
• Attorney Fees Awarded Despite Lack of Damages in Minnesota Jail Strip Search Suit
• Expense No Justification for Eighth Amendment Violation
• Beating States Claim, Medical Misdiagnosis Doesn't
• Jail Detainee States Claim for Denial of Exercise, Mail Censorship, and Subjection to Collective Punishment
• PLRA Attorney Fee-Award Criteria "Directly Incurred" and "Degree Of Success" Explained by John Dannenberg
• Prison Conditions Injunction Must View Totality of Conditions
• No Prejudgment Interest Awarded To Washington Prison Contractor Prior To Court Judgment
• Title VII Suit Dismissed for Lack of Exhaustion
• California Sexually Violent Predator's Recurring Habeas Claims Ruled Not Moot, But Still Meritless by John Dannenberg
• OH Guards Not Responsible for Assault on Prisoner Unless They Knew the Assault Might Occur
• Supreme Court Adopts Expert Testimony Standard
• Defendants Must Bear Costs of Depositions Sought by Indigent Prisoners; and Attorney-Client Privilege Waived
• Qualified Immunity: An Objective Legal Reasonableness Test
• California In-Prison Non-Violent Offense Cannot be Merged with Original Violent Sentence for Work Credit Awards
• Broader than Necessary Jury Instruction Requires Reversal in Prisoner's First Amendment Violation
• $1,500 Awarded in Negligence Suit for MA Prisoner's Work Injury
• $2,220,000 Settlement To Missouri Prisoners Formerly Housed In Texas
• Seventh Circuit Holds Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine Inappropriate Sanction For Honest Intentions
• Woman Raped In Texas Jail Reaches Confidential Settlement
• Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Against Prison Contractor
• Cost, Political/Public Criticism Not Legitimate Concern in Denying Transsexual Medical Needs
• Texas Supreme Court: Sex Offender Civil Commitment Statute Is Constitutional
• Confiscation of Political Literature, Denial of Hearing Notice and Witnesses States Claim
• Aliens May Sue Private Detention Companies Under ATCA
• Prisoner Cannot Be Punished for Engaging in Permitted Conduct
• Los Angeles County Settles Minor's Sexual Assault Claim While In Custody
• $100,000 Paid in Murder Committed by Negligently Supervised WA Parolee
• California: Knowing Waiver of Conduct Credits at Plea Agreement Controls Upon Later Probation Violations by John E Dannenberg
• Court Orders Force Feeding of Hunger-Striker
• No Qualified Immunity for Force Feeding Prisoner Who Agrees to Eat
• MN Lawyers Disciplined for Misuse of Legal Correspondence with Prisoner
• $1,000 Verdict in Religious Freedom Case
• Texas: Sexually Assaulted Boot Camp Prisoners Awarded $2,800,000 Against CSC
• Restraint Chair Use Enjoined, Class Certified, $925,000 Settlement
• $300,000 Settlement in Iowa Jail Detainee's Suicide
• Michigan's Prison Health Care System Found Contemptuous by David Reutter (p 7)
• Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued by David Reutter (p 8)
• California Creates High Risk Sex Offender Task Force (p 10)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 10)
• Florida's Prison Industry Practices Tightening by David Reutter (p 11)
• Nevada Prisoner Awarded $18,700 For Retaliation Claim (p 12)
• PLN Uncovers Secret Sweetheart Settlement Between PRIDE and Former Board Members by David Reutter (p 12)
• Indianapolis’ Sex Offender Ordinance Banning Presence in Public Places with Children Enjoined (p 13)
• New BOP Program Isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern Prisoners (p 14)
• ABA Recommends Congress Repeal Portions of PLRA by David Reutter (p 16)
• Doing “Katrina Time” by Bob Williams (p 18)
• Habeas Hints: Retroactivity-Cunningham and Beyond by Kent A. Russell (p 20)
• Fraudulent Tax Returns Net Illegal Millions for Prisoners by Gary Hunter (p 22)
• New Jersey Auditor: Life Skills Academy Prison Contract Improperly Monitored by Matthew Clarke (p 24)
• Suit Over Suicide At Indian Jail In Washington Settled For $700,000 (p 24)
• Record Number of Texas Prison Guards Arrested by Matthew Clarke (p 26)
• $143,774.55 Attorney Fee and Costs Award in New York EMSA Suit by Matthew Clarke (p 27)
• Kentucky County Settles Prisoner Rape Suit for $1.4 Million (p 28)
• WA Prisoners Entitled to Minimal Due Process Before Risk Level Demotion (p 28)
• Washington State Waits Too Long to Collect Restitution (p 28)
• Eleventh Circuit Remands ADA and Section 1983 Claims for Amended Complaint by John Dannenberg (p 29)
• Prisoner’s Death After Restraint Settled By Los Angeles County For $80,000 (p 29)
• Audit of California DOC Contracted Healthcare Expenditures Reveals Rampant Waste, Abuse and Management Deficiencies by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• Missouri Elective Abortion Ban Ruled Unconstitutional In Class Action (p 32)
• Guards Sue California DOC for Identity Theft by Prisoner Workers (p 32)
• Washington DOC Settles Open Records Suit for $15,000 (p 33)
• California DOC Settles With PLN Over Restrictive Publications Policies: Changes Regulations, Pays Damages by John Dannenberg (p 34)
• Jail Chaplains Scrutinized for Affairs with Female Prisoners (p 34)
• $128,000 Cost Fee Against Former Angolite Editor Reversed (p 35)
• $110,000 Settlement for North Carolina Prisoner Beaten By Guards (p 36)
• U.S. Supreme Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Is an Affirmative Defense Under the PLRA by John Dannenberg (p 36)
• Missouri’s Lethal Injection Protocol Unconstitutional; Executions Stayed (p 37)
• A Devastating Link: Prisoner Rape and the War on Drugs (p 38)
• Innocent Idaho Prisoner Receives $900,000 for 21 Years Wrongful Incarceration (p 38)
• Prosecutors Check Prospective Jurors’ Background, Hoping to Disqualify Them (p 39)
• EPA Fines Pennsylvania DOC $37,000 for Air Violations (p 40)
• Registration Requirements Expanded to Non-Sex Crimes and Unconvicted Offenses by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• Suit For Untreated Diabetic Prisoner’s Death In Los Angeles County Jail Lobby Settled For $700,000 (p 41)
• Pennsylvania Prisoner Wins $10,000 On Excessive Force Claim (p 41)
• Florida DOC Liable for Legal Copy Costs Not Repaid (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Washington DOC Pays $1.9 Million in Rape-Murder; County Escapes Liability (p 44)
• Cook County, Illinois, Settles Wrongful Death Claim for $550,000
• $10,001 NY False Arrest Verdict Upheld
• Turner Applied to Some Juvenile Prisoner Strip Searches

April

• Reflections on Katrina’s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America’s Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams (p 1)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 14)
• Mentally Ill Connecticut Prisoner Assaulted by Guard Awarded $250,000, Plus $121,384.80 in Fees (p 15)
• California DOC Stipulates to Providing Comprehensive Dental Care Program by John Dannenberg (p 16)
• PLN Sues Dallas County Jail for Censorship (p 17)
• Two Registered Sex Offenders Murdered in Maine by Matthew Clarke (p 18)
• Does Parole Work? Apparently Not. (p 19)
• Two Victories in New York’s Struggle Against Unjust Telephone Contract by Rachel Meeropol (p 20)
• Early Release Debacle Prompts Nevada Prison Director’s Resignation by Matthew Clarke (p 22)
• California DOC Substance-Abuse Contractor Audits Reveal $5 Million in Overcharges by John Dannenberg (p 22)
• Alabama Transfers Prisoners to Louisiana Rather Than Use In-State Prison by Gary Hunter (p 23)
• Prisoners In 13 States Allowed Work-Access To Social Security Numbers by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Pennsylvania County Pays U.S. INS $16 Million for Detainee Housing Overcharges by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Deaths In Alabama Jail Prompt Changes by Gary Hunter (p 26)
• Eight Tennessee Guards Convicted in Prisoners’ Beatings, Death by Gary Hunter (p 26)
• Washington State Supreme Court Justice Reprimanded For Visiting Prisoners (p 27)
• Yale University Divests CCA Stock Following Student and PLN Protests (p 28)
• Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• Tennessee Prison Contracting Official Engaged to Contractor (p 30)
• California Corrections Standards Authority Chided by Inspector General for Failure to Develop Prison Guard Selection and Training Standards by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• Illinois DOC Capitulates On Prison Newspaper Ban by John Dannenberg (p 31)
• Chicago Juvenile Detention Center Workers Resist Court-Ordered Reforms by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• Corruption and Violence Plague South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Prisons by Gary Hunter (p 32)
• Maryland’s Public Information Act Exempt from Administrative Exhaustion Requirements (p 33)
• California Sexual Predators’ Suit Alleging Unconstitutional Civil Confinement Conditions Survives Dismissal by John Dannenberg (p 34)
• California Prisoner Fed Finger Settles with Florida Food Manufacturer (p 35)
• Ninth Circuit: Before Conducting Warrantless Parole Search, Police Need Probable Cause to Believe Parolee Lives There by John Dannenberg (p 36)
• BOP Mail Rule Banning Internet Downloads and Soft Cover Publications Not Sent by Publisher Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg (p 37)
• Oklahoma Orthodox Jewish Prisoners Win Kosher Diet by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• Marin County, California Settles Wrongful Jail Death For $1 Million by John Dannenberg (p 38)
• California-Based Mental Health Systems, Inc.Fails 23 Audits by John Dannenberg (p 39)
• Ninth Circuit: Failure to Timely Set Fractured Thumb is Actionable by John Dannenberg (p 40)
• California State Prisoner Wins $21,800 for 250 Days Excess Incarceration (p 40)
• California Prisoner IFP State Civil Filing Fee Statutes Interpreted by John Dannenberg (p 40)
• Sensitive Illinois DOC Personnel Records Compromised (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Expungement, Not Rehearing, Mandated in Colorado Disciplinary Reversals by Bob Williams (p 42)
• Los Angeles County Sheriff Immune from Suit on Jail Housing Policies by John Dannenberg (p 44)

March

• “To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get”: Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman (p 1)
• ARE YOU IN A PRISON WORK PROGRAM HANDLING TOXIC ELECTRONICS? (p 8)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 12)
• Maryland Man Awarded $6.4 Million For False Imprisonment, Police Misconduct by Michael Rigby (p 12)
• Joe Arpaio: America’s Toughest Sheriff or Most Corrupt? by Alex Friedmann (p 14)
• California DOC Wage Audit: Guards Overcharged State $12 Million for Union Business Leave by Marvin Mentor (p 17)
• Florida Warden Susceptible to Liability in Valdes’ Murder; Suit Settles for $1,169,923.42 by David Reutter (p 18)
• Prisoners Sell Art Through Prison Art Gallery by Nancy Hochman (p 19)
• Cunningham v. California: Who’s Covered and Who’s Not? by Kent A. Russell (p 20)
• Hawaii Settles DOJ Suit Over Unconstitutional Juvenile Facility (p 20)
• HIV in Prison Is Lower Than Believed by Gary Hunter (p 21)
• Sheriff’s Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Death; Both Get Prison Time by Gary Hunter (p 22)
• China’s Death Penalty On Wheels by Gary Hunter (p 22)
• Ninth Circuit: California Lifers Have A Liberty Interest In Parole by Marvin Mentor (p 23)
• North Carolina Enacts Innocence Inquiry Commission by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• California DOC Federal Receiver Is Granted First Waiver of State Law by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Three Work-Release Van Drivers Escape from Arkansas Prison; Practice Discontinued by Gary Hunter (p 26)
• PHS Loses $707 Million FDOC Contract Rebid; State Adopts Hybrid Model of Prison Health Care by John Dannenberg (p 26)
• California Inspector General Assesses DOC’s Compliance With Past Audit Recommendations by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• Hawaii Juvenile Gay Bashing Enjoined (p 28)
• Bernard Kerik Pleads Guilty; Has Name Removed From New York City Jail by Gary Hunter (p 30)
• Alabama Spends $500,000 to Vaccinate State Prisoners by Gary Hunter (p 31)
• Maricopa County, Arizona, Abandons Restraint Chairs Following Deaths, Multimillion Dollar Payouts by Michael Rigby (p 32)
• Vermont, the Last State to Pass Sex Abuse Laws by Gary Hunter (p 32)
• New York HCV Treatment Suit Not Mooted by Equivocal DOC Concession; Class Certification Granted by John Dannenberg (p 33)
• Many U.S. Prisoners Mentally Ill, Few Receive Treatment by Michael Rigby (p 34)
• Georgia County Pays $5.1 Million for Community Service Turned Deadly by Michael Rigby (p 34)
• Federal Court Restrains Los Angeles County Jail Overcrowding by John Dannenberg (p 35)
• $205,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Strip Search Suit (p 36)
• New Jersey Phone Rates Out of Control by Gary Hunter (p 36)
• US Settles Prisoner’s UNICOR Whistleblower Suit for $6,000 (p 37)
• Pennsylvania Work-Release Program Criticized by Gary Hunter (p 38)
• Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment of Washington Phone Suit (p 38)
• Fahrenheit 451 on Cell Block D by John Dannenberg (p 39)
• California DOC Ordered to Comply with Overdue Suicide Prevention Measures by Marvin Mentor (p 39)
• Texas Prisoners Face Mandatory Testing For HIV by Gary Hunter (p 40)
• $275,000 Paid In Excessive-Force Michigan Jail Death Lawsuit by John Dannenberg (p 40)
• Colorado Prisoners Caging Prisoners by Gary Hunter (p 41)
• Grievances Must Identify Defendants Later Sued (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Wyoming Federal Court Awards Attorney $18,000 for Compliance Monitoring by Michael Rigby (p 44)

February

• Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby (p 1)
• Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg (p 8)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 8)
• Sacramento Jail Rampant with Excessive Force and Brutality by Gary Hunter (p 10)
• Bureau of Prisons Begins Certifying Sexually Dangerous Persons by David Beneman (p 14)
• New York’s Prison System Infested With Drugs by David Reutter (p 16)
• High Ranking Louisiana Prison Official Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges by Gary Hunter (p 17)
• California Habeas Handbook, Expanded 5th Edition, by Attorney Kent Russell, Sept. 2006, 114 pages plus appendix, soft cover by John Dannenberg (p 18)
• 5-Point Restraints = Excessive Force + Due Process Violation Results in $25,000 Virginia Damage Award (p 18)
• Correct Rx a New Major Player in the Prison Drug Industry by Gary Hunter (p 20)
• The Warehousing of New Hampshire’s Mentally Ill by David Reutter (p 20)
• Prison TB 10 Times Higher Than Non-Prison Cases (p 22)
• Seizure of Washington Prisoners’ Cash at Jail Booking Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby (p 22)
• $400,000 Wrongful Death Settlement After San Diego Jailers Hog-Tied Prisoner by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Fulton County Reinstates Deputies Fired in Killing Rampage (p 24)
• 1997 Changes in Pennsylvania Commutation Law Held Ex Post Facto by John Dannenberg (p 25)
• Federal Court Compels Activation of California DOC Mental Health Crisis Beds; Approves New $111 Million Mental Care Hospital by John Dannenberg (p 26)
• Summary Judgement Reversed on Illinois Outgoing Mail Ban (p 26)
• Cleaning up Mississippi’s Supermax: Conditions Suit Settled by David Reutter (p 28)
• North Carolina Jail Prisoner Killed During Court Appearance by Gary Hunter (p 28)
• Prison Deaths: A National Shame by Ira P. Robbins (p 29)
• California Governor Vetoes Open Records, Prisoner Condoms and Media Access Bills by John Dannenberg (p 30)
• California DOC Medical Receiver’s Initial On-The-Job Impression: “Conditions Disgraceful” by John Dannenberg (p 30)
• U.S. Spends Record $185 Billion on Justice System is 2003 by Matthew Clarke (p 32)
• New York’s Governor Vetoes New Treatment Facilities For Mentally Ill Prisoners by John Dannenberg (p 32)
• Mississippi DOC Guts TB Program (p 33)
• PLN Awarded $48,709 In Attorney Fees After Successful FOIA Suit Against BOP (p 33)
• Colorado Parolee’s Disenfranchisement Upheld (p 33)
• $255 Awarded For Destruction of Prisoner’s Property (p 34)
• Family of Texas Prisoner Murdered in Geo-Operated Prison Awarded $47.5 Million by Michael Rigby (p 34)
• 9th Circuit Holds § 1997e(a) Applies to Private Prisons; Magazine Confiscation Is a “Prison Condition” (p 34)
• Michigan Jail Prisoners Pay For Incarceration by Gary Hunter (p 35)
• New Jersey Prison Commissioner’s Complete Ban On Media Lifted by Gary Hunter (p 35)
• Garnishment of Ohio Prisoner’s Account Permitted to Pay Court Costs (p 36)
• Sixth Circuit Extends Abela Ruling to Parole Denial Habeas Petitions (p 36)
• Virginia Prison Minister Indicted on Sex Charges; Ministries Under Fire by Gary Hunter (p 36)
• $2.5 Million Settlement for Illegal Strip Searches in Connecticut Jail (p 37)
• MO Jail Guards Denying Seizure Medication amd Assigning Prisoner to Top Bunk May Violate 8th Amendment (p 38)
• New Jersey Sex Offenders Must Be Protected and Segregated During Transports (p 38)
• Nebraska UA Procedures Do Not Violate Due Process (p 39)
• Illinois Jail’s Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby (p 39)
• BOP Halfway House Walkaway Is Not Federal “Crime of Violence” by John Dannenberg (p 40)
• Native American Entitled to Prayer Feather (p 40)
• New Hampshire Prisoner’s ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner’s Heat-Dehydration Death (p 44)

January

• Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry by Steven Jackson (p 1)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 12)
• Maryland Sentence Reduction Rule Violates Ex Post Facto Clause (p 12)
• Violence from Racial Tension and Overcrowding Pervades California Jails, Spreads to Prisons by Marvin Mentor (p 14)
• Lawsuit Filed Over Health Care at Wisconsin Women’s Prison, More Possible by Michael Rigby (p 20)
• Vermont DOC Agrees To Stop Punishing Self-Harming Prisoners by Michael Rigby (p 21)
• 200 Dead in Brazil Prison Uprisings, Street Violence by Gary Hunter (p 22)
• California’s “High-Risk” Sex Offender Parolees Ostracized; Parole Official Fired by John Dannenberg (p 24)
• Washington Women’s Prison Healthcare Violations Continue (p 25)
• The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter (p 26)
• Illinois Parole Violators Enforce Revocation Due Process Rights with Consent Decree by John Dannenberg (p 28)
• Washington Prisoners Must Pre-Pay for Record Inspection (p 28)
• California Lifer Hearing Backlog Increases Despite Court Order To Catch Up by Marvin Mentor (p 30)
• Vienna Convention Creates Individually Enforceable Rights by Matthew Clarke (p 30)
• Washington Prisoner Sues Over Bogus Disciplinary Actions; State Settles for $1,500 (p 32)
• Settlement Revamps Grant County, Washington Indigent Defense System; County Agrees to $1.1 Million in Attorney Fees (p 32)
• $214,000 Award for Injuries Caused by Dilantin Deprivation to Michigan Jail Prisoner (p 33)
• PLRA’s Mental and Emotional Damage Award Ban Unconstitutional in $219,000 First Amendment Claim (p 34)
• Illegal Strip Searches Cost MTC, New Mexico County $8.5 Million by Michael Rigby (p 34)
• Michigan Prisoner Assaulted By Jailers Awarded $2,000 by Michael Rigby (p 35)
• Florida DOC’s Policy Prohibiting Release of Sex Offenders Without Address Unconstitutional by David Reutter (p 36)
• Wisconsin “Boondoggled” Into Buying Broken Down New Private Prison (p 36)
• New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation by Gary Hunter (p 37)
• Mississippi Beating Suit Nets $348,960 — Upheld on Appeal (p 37)
• 5th Circuit Reverses Texas Prisoner’s Disciplinary Conviction For “Non-Existent” Offense by Michael Rigby (p 38)
• Maryland Disciplinary Rules Violate APA (p 38)
• Texas Supreme Court: Non-Suit Deprives Appeals Court of Jurisdiction (p 39)
• Fourth Circuit Holds FTCA Applies to BOP Property Claims (p 40)
• Eleventh Circuit Affirms Damage Award in Psychiatrist’s Strangling Death (p 40)
• Virginia Guard Hazed By Coworkers Awarded $25,001 by Michael Rigby (p 40)
• Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Prisoners’ Challenge to Extended Lockdown by Michael Rigby (p 41)
• Missouri Prison Ordered to Provide Immediate Abortion (p 41)
• News in Brief: (p 42)
• Oklahoma Regulation Confiscating Money Order From Other Prisoner’s Family Upheld (p 42)
• Tenth Circuit Reinstates Colorado Ad Seg Conditions Claims by Bob Williams (p 44)