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Archive: 2024
October
September
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Turn Key Health Clinics: Another Private Jail Medical Provider Leaving a Trail of Death and Misery
by David Reutter
(p 1)
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Bruce Johnson 1950–2024
by Paul Wright
(p 9)
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From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 10)
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Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release
(p 10)
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Fifth Circuit Calls Denial of Texas Prisoner’s In Forma Pauperis Request “Arbitrary or Erroneous”
(p 11)
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Florida Prisoner Whose Case Ended LWOP for Juveniles Released
(p 12)
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Missouri DOC Chief Held in Contempt of Court for Keeping Exonerated Prisoner Locked Up
(p 13)
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Environmental Impact Statement Released for Controversial Proposed BOP Lockup in Kentucky
(p 13)
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Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction
(p 13)
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Former Ohio Deputy Prison Warden Gets Probation for Overtime Fraud
(p 14)
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TDCJ Denied Summary Judgment In Suit by Prisoner Who Missed Grievance Deadline Because Guard’s Assault Left Him In a Coma
(p 15)
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DOJ Sues Utah DOC, Alleging Discrimination Against Transgender Prisoner
(p 16)
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First Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Massachusetts Officials Who Held Prisoner in Solitary for Two Years Without Hearing
by Douglas Ankney
(p 17)
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German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional
(p 18)
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Georgia Prison Education Program Shuttered
(p 18)
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“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death
(p 19)
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Former Warden Added to Suit Over Brutal Killing of Disabled Virginia Prisoner
by Douglas Ankney
(p 19)
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New York City Mayor Blocks Solitary Confinement Ban After Council Overrides His Veto
(p 21)
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Former Detainee Sues “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail Where He Was Stabbed 13 Times
(p 21)
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Solitary Confinement Prompts Lawsuit in Massachusetts, Hunger Strike in Maine
(p 22)
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NaphCare Settles One Suit At Oregon Jail, Loses Motion to Dismiss Second
(p 24)
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Remedying Wrongs
by Kenneth Alyass
(p 26)
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Ohio Guard Drives Over Prisoner
(p 27)
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Competency Evaluation Ordered for Condemned Utah Prisoner
by David Reutter
(p 28)
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Former Prisoners Can Become President, But Other Job Options Are Limited
(p 29)
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Baton Rouge Cops Indicted for Violent In-Custody Strip-Search
(p 30)
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D.C. Jail Watchdog Uncovers Alarming Solitary Confinement Practices
(p 31)
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Multiple Abuse Allegations Against Texas Prison Guard Deemed “Unsubstantiated” by TDCJ
(p 32)
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Missouri Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Proceeds Against Guards After Court Excuses Missed Deadlines Under “Unavailable” Grievance Procedure
by David Reutter
(p 32)
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$1.1 Million Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Stabbed by Gang Members For Testifying About Prison Murder
by David Reutter
(p 33)
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Pennsylvania Prisoner Smuggles Cellphones, Federal Prosecutor Breaches Plea Bargain
(p 33)
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BOP Cuts Ties With American Correctional Association
(p 35)
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Second Circuit: New York Prisoner’s Prior Cases Not PLRA Strikes
by David Reutter
(p 35)
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Washington Parole Board Failed to Meaningfully Apply Presumption of Release for Prisoner Sentenced to LWOP as Juvenile
(p 36)
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$700,000 Settlement in BOP Prisoner’s Death After Court Refuses to Extend Bivens
by David Reutter
(p 37)
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Telecom Firms Shift Revenue Streams in Response to Prison Phone Reforms
(p 37)
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Watchdog Faults BOP for Averaging 43 Prisoner Deaths a Year—More Than 23 by Suicide
by David Reutter
(p 39)
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Mom of Murdered California Prisoner Defeats Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit by Guard Who Posted Pics of Corpse Online
by David Reutter
(p 40)
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Georgia Prison Warden Fired, Seven Guards Arrested in Prisoner’s Massive Drug Operation
(p 41)
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Tenth Circuit Affirms Former Oklahoma Jail Captain’s 46-Month Sentence For Brutalizing Detainees
by David Reutter
(p 41)
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Trial Rescheduled for Ohio Prisoner Accused of Murdering Fellow Prisoner
(p 41)
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Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Credit to Prisoner’s LWOP Sentence
by Douglas Ankney
(p 41)
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Washington Court of Appeals: PLRA Dismissal of Prisoner’s Federal Suit Is Not Res Judicata Barring State Tort Claims
(p 43)
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Montana Prison Warden Fired for Creating Hostile Workplace
(p 43)
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Texas Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeks Relief from Heat in Un-Air-Conditioned Prisons
by David Reutter
(p 46)
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Oklahoma Lawmakers Sue for Pardon and Parole Board Texts After Condemned Prisoner Denied Clemency
(p 47)
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Georgia Jail Detainee Released After 10-Year Wait for Trial
(p 48)
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Chicago Jailers Publicly Call Detainee Death a Medical Emergency, Privately Admit Guard Brutality
(p 49)
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Regional Jail in Kentucky Settles DOJ Complaint, Agrees to Provide Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
by Douglas Ankney
(p 50)
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DOJ Declares Conditions at Three More Mississippi Prisons Unconstitutional
by David Reutter
(p 50)
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Second Former BOP Guard Sentenced in Smuggling Scheme at Brooklyn Lockup
(p 51)
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California Supreme Court Refuses Challenge to LWOP Sentence Imposed for Crime Committed After Age 18
(p 52)
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Missouri Sheriff Removed from Office for Using Detainee Labor on His Own Properties
by David Reutter
(p 52)
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CoreCivic’s Successful Campaign for Mass Incarceration Continues in Tennessee
(p 53)
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Nevada Supreme Court Holds That Violating Jail Phone Policy Does Not Waive Attorney-Client Privilege
by Douglas Ankney
(p 54)
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Hometown Prison Examines Its Texas Neighbors
(p 55)
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Former D.C. Guard Gets 42-Month Sentence for Assaulting Handcuffed Prisoner
by Douglas Ankney
(p 55)
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$60,000 Settlement for Kansas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, $578,000 for His Attorneys
by David Reutter
(p 56)
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California Prisoner Wins Challenge to Overbroad CDCR Records Request Made Prior to Resentencing
(p 57)
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$3.4 Million Settlement for Nevada Prisoner After ‘Wait and See’ Medical Care Became ‘Deny and Delay’
by David Reutter
(p 58)
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Virginia Governor’s Veto Exposes Prisoners Who Took Plea Bargains to Civil Rights Violations
by Matthew Clarke
(p 58)
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Aryan Warriors Leader Among Three Killed in Nevada Prison Riot
(p 58)
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$2,000 Statutory Award Boosts Ohio Prisoner’s Total Over $9,000 for Denied Public Records
by David Reutter
(p 60)
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Montana Supreme Court Requires Sentence Credit for Time Served in Tribal Jail
(p 60)
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One of Eight Prisoners Now Released is a Woman
by David Reutter
(p 61)
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News in Brief
(p 61)
August
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After Spike in Jail Deaths, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Under California Department of Justice Investigation
by Matthew Clarke
(p 1)
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From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 8)
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California Prisoner’s Generosity for Gaza Rewarded With Over $100,000
(p 8)
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$7.5 Million Settlement in Suit Over California Jail Death
by Matthew Clarke
(p 9)
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Arizona DOC Agrees to Pay $2,650,000 in Legal Fees and Costs in Long-Running PLN Censorship Suit
(p 10)
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Unintended Consequence of Texas Prisoner Tablets: Retaliation from Fellow Prisoners
(p 11)
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Virginia Takes Back One Prison from GEO Group, Closes Four More
(p 12)
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Pilot Jail Diversion Program Opens for Mentally Ill Arrestees in Austin
(p 12)
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Oregon Transgender Prisoner Claims Abusive Violation of Injunction, but Court Declines Sanctions
by Matthew Clarke
(p 13)
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Contractor Fined $300,000 for Illegal Asbestos Dumping at Wisconsin Federal Prison
(p 14)
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“Too brutal, too disgusting”: Prison Guards Flee as Working Conditions Worsen
(p 14)
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Kentucky Parole Officer Gets Three Years for Sexually Assaulting Probationers
by Matthew Clarke
(p 15)
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46 New York Prisoners Accuse Guards of Beatings—Even Waterboarding
by Douglas Ankney
(p 16)
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Tennessee DOC Rewards CoreCivic with Pay Increase Despite Critical Watchdog Audit
(p 17)
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Illinois Parole Board Member Resigns After Violator Turns Deadly
(p 18)
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Dead Rikers Island Detainees Had Missed Dozens of Mental Health Appointments
(p 18)
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New York Revises 2,772 Prisoner Disciplinary Records After Inspector General Finds Defects in Another Contraband Drug Test
by Douglas Ankney
(p 18)
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Inspectors Catch L.A. Jailers Watching Porn
(p 19)
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Eighth Circuit: Perfect Adherence to Burdened Beliefs Not Required to Demonstrate Sincerity under RLUIPA
by Douglas Ankney
(p 20)
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Florida Jail Chief’s Firing Upheld, Retaliation Lawsuit Headed to Trial
(p 21)
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Warden and Deputy Out at Kentucky Prison As DOC Investigates Guard Misconduct
(p 21)
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Eleventh Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Georgia Jailers Who Housed White Detainee With Black Cellmate Held for Racially Motivated Attack
(p 22)
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Cheap Food Enriching Profiteers, Making Prisoners Sick
(p 23)
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Riot at California GEO Group Lockup Sends Message to U.S. Marshals
(p 23)
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Federal Judge Calls BOP Brooklyn Lockup Too Deplorable to House Defendant
(p 24)
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Prisoner Admissions Soar at Massachusetts Psychiatric Lockup Plagued by Overcrowding and Violence
(p 24)
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$275,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Jail Detainee’s Death from Untreated Heart Infection
(p 26)
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1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay
(p 28)
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BOP is Holding 12,000 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement
by David Reutter
(p 28)
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Fifth Savannah Jail Employee Arrested for Smuggling in Just Over a Year
(p 29)
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Massachusetts Prison Closure Reflects Success of Criminal Justice Reforms
(p 29)
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Report Finds Exploitative Disciplinary Fines in One-Third of U.S. Prison Systems
(p 31)
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Tennessee Sheriff Indicted for Massive Prisoner Work-Release Fraud
(p 31)
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Arrested for Stealing Snacks, Baltimore Diabetic Dies in Jail
(p 32)
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Fourth Circuit Revives Claim Over North Carolina Jail Suicide
by Douglas Ankney
(p 32)
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Georgia Guard Fired, Charged With Setting Up Assault that Left Prisoner Dead
(p 33)
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Arizona Agrees to $40,000 Settlement in Suit Over Mentally Ill Prisoner’s Suicide
by Douglas Ankney
(p 34)
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Illinois Prisoner Succumbs to Heat Wave
(p 34)
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Fourth Circuit Chides Virginia Magistrate for Assuming Prisoners Proceed IFP
by Douglas Ankney
(p 35)
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New Mexico Jail Sued Again After Paying $787,500 In-Custody Death Settlement
(p 36)
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First Circuit Tolls Claim for Maine Jail Death from Date of Detainee’s Injury, Rather Than When He Died
by Douglas Ankney
(p 37)
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Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million
(p 38)
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Florida Court Strikes $10 Million of $16 Million Judgment Against Armor Correctional Health in Jail Death
by David Reutter
(p 39)
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Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington
by Douglas Ankney
(p 40)
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Settlements Total $3.85 Million for Nevada Prisoners Hit with Birdshot
by David Reutter
(p 41)
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Indiana Supreme Court Says “Summary Judgment Is Not Summary Trial,” Remanding State Prisoner’s Malpractice Claim to a Jury
(p 42)
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Missouri Warden, Four Guards Out After Prisoner’s Fatal Beating
(p 43)
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Texas Prosecutor Gets Fine, Probated Bar Suspension After Jailing Woman for Abortion
(p 43)
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Fourth Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Guards Who Left North Carolina Prisoner to Eat with Feces-Soiled Hands
(p 44)
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Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Claim for 11-Month Solitary Confinement That DOC Admitted Was Improper
by Douglas Ankney
(p 46)
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Washington Prisoner’s Sentence Vacated After Attorney Calls and Visits Were Recorded
by Douglas Ankney
(p 47)
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$11 Million Settlement for Exonerated Michigan Prisoner
by David Reutter
(p 48)
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3,500 Body-Worn Cameras Recalled from Rikers Island Guards After One Catches Fire
(p 48)
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No Dismissal for San Diego Jail Medical Contractor from Suit Filed Over Detainee’s Withdrawal Death
(p 50)
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Ending Prison Slavery on the Ballot in California, Nevada
(p 51)
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Nevada DOC Under Fire for Hiring Unlicensed Medical Director
(p 51)
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Addicted to Punishment: Jails and Prisons Punish Drug Use Far More Than They Treat It
by Emily Widra
(p 52)
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Intellectually Disabled Georgia Prisoner Executed After SCOTUS Denies Appeal
(p 57)
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Mississippi Prison Warden Suspended After Security Chief Caught Smuggling
(p 57)
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Maryland Pardons 175,000 Marijuana Misdemeanor Convictions
(p 58)
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Alabama Denies Parole to Dead Prisoner
(p 58)
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Condemned Alabama Prisoner Challenges Execution by Nitrogen Hypoxia
by David Reutter
(p 59)
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South Carolina Supreme Court Grants Prisoner Credit for Time Served Awaiting Revocation of Supervised Release
(p 60)
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Colorado Lawmakers Take a Pass on Cash Assistance for Released Prisoners
by Douglas Ankney
(p 60)
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Bar Complaint Revives 10-Year-Old Question: Why No Charges Filed Against Florida Guards Who Killed Prisoner?
by David Reutter
(p 61)
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News in Brief
(p 62)
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Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices
(p 62)
July
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Alaska’s Prison System: Dangerous, Deadly Yet Repeating Past Mistakes
by David Reutter
(p 1)
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From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 9)
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For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months
(p 10)
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North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council
(p 10)
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Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial
(p 11)
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Seventh Kentucky Guard Sentenced for Restrained Prisoner’s Beat-down
(p 12)
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Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup
(p 12)
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“Botched” and “Ill-Conceived”: BOP Slammed for Plan to Close California Lockup Known as “Rape Club”
(p 13)
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Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out
by Douglas Ankney
(p 14)
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Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again
(p 15)
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“You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults
(p 16)
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In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors
by Douglas Ankney
(p 17)
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BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate
(p 18)
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Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Sham Accreditations
by Matthew Clarke
(p 18)
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Cleveland Jail Warden Dismissed After Asking for More Reentry Assistance for Detainees
(p 19)
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Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
(p 19)
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Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels
(p 20)
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Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death
by David Reutter
(p 21)
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Ninth Circuit: Alleged Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment to Federal Prisoner in Washington Presents Valid Bivens Claim
by David Reutter
(p 22)
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Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free
(p 23)
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Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors
(p 23)
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Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation
(p 24)
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Decoding Recidivism: Unraveling Its Complex Metrics and Real Impact
(p 24)
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Hope Against Hope
by Daryl Waters
(p 26)
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Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations
(p 28)
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“You Are Not Above the Law”: Former Indiana Sheriff Jailed for Contempt of Court
(p 31)
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$15,000 Net Award for Georgia Prisoner’s Delayed Hep-C Treatment
by David Reutter
(p 32)
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West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food
(p 33)
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CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail
by David Reutter
(p 34)
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Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets
by David Reutter
(p 35)
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$500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail
(p 35)
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Warden, Eight Employees Arrested After Four Deaths at Wisconsin Prison in Eight Months
(p 36)
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Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners
(p 37)
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Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault
by David Reutter
(p 38)
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Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation
(p 39)
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Illinois Prisoner Awarded Over $822,000 For Hernia Care Denied by Wexford Health
by Douglas Ankney
(p 40)
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Minnesota Jailers Shrug Off Detainee’s Agony from Fatal Perforated Bowel as Withdrawal Symptoms
(p 41)
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Hearing-Impaired Massachusetts Prisoners Win ADA Case
(p 42)
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Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills
(p 43)
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Federal Sentencing Guidelines Place Heavy Burden on Incarcerated Victims of Sexual Assaults
by David Reutter
(p 44)
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Slows the Hand That State DOC Sticks Into Prisoners’ Pockets
by David Reutter
(p 46)
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Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Retaliation Claim By Federal Prisoner Against Guard in Illinois Lockup Who Saw Grievance Against Him
by Matthew Clarke
(p 47)
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$8.9 Million Settlement Reached for N.Y. Prisoner’s Death Following Guards’ Baton Beating
by David Reutter
(p 48)
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Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail
(p 48)
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Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions
by David Reutter
(p 50)
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Eighth Circuit Largely Restores Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guards in Use of Force on Bipolar Prisoner
by David Reutter
(p 51)
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Maryland Prisoner Prevails in Challenge to Denial of Public Records Requests
(p 52)
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$2 Million Settlement in Death of Mentally Disabled Detainee Stripped of Anti-Seizure Device at Colorado Jail
by David Reutter
(p 53)
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Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles
(p 54)
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Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured
(p 54)
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Ohio Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s ‘Kite’ Is Public Record, But Denies Damages for Withholding It
by Matthew Clarke
(p 55)
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$56.7 Million Awarded to “Harlem Park Three,” Exonerated of Baltimore Murder After 36 Years in Prison
by David Reutter
(p 56)
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Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer
by Douglas Ankney
(p 57)
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Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group
by David Reutter
(p 58)
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$4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail
by David Reutter
(p 59)
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Transgender Maryland Prisoner’s Suit Accuses Guard of Shower Rape
(p 60)
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Two Prisoners Removed from Texas Death Row Due to Intellectual Disability
by David Reutter
(p 61)
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News in Brief
(p 62)
June
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Contemporary Slavery: The Not-So-Secret Practice of Forced Labor Inside U.S. Prisons
by Douglas Ankney
(p 1)
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From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 9)
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Far-Right Claremont Institute Awards Extremist California Sheriff
(p 10)
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Dramatic Prisoner Escape in France Leaves Two Guards Dead
(p 10)
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Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss
(p 11)
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Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons
(p 12)
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After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed
(p 12)
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New York Court of Appeals Lets DOCCS Skate from Liability for Doctor’s Malpractice on State Prisoner
by Douglas Ankney
(p 13)
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Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island
(p 14)
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Texas Bankruptcy Court Rejects Proposed Settlement of Prisoner Claims Against Corizon Health
(p 14)
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Private Prison Transport Guards Sentenced to Prison for Raping Detainees
by Douglas Ankney
(p 16)
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Vermont Court Orders Centurion to Cough Up Records in HRDC Suit
by Matthew Clarke
(p 17)
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Michigan Makes Voting Rights Restoration Automatic for Prisoner’s at Release
(p 18)
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BOP Has a Halfway House Problem
(p 18)
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Other Jails Study Miami Diversion Program to Keep Mentally Ill from Repeated Incarceration
(p 19)
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Los Angeles County Makes Jail Phone Calls Free
(p 19)
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Louisiana Fights Federal Court Order to Remedy “Callous and Wanton Disregard” for Angola Prisoners’ Healthcare
by David Reutter
(p 20)
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Dixie Prison Growth Drives Number of Incarcerated Americans Above 2 Million Once Again
(p 21)
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HRDC Files Suit for Exonerated Florida Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated Over 44 Years
(p 22)
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Two Sentenced in Detainee’s Fentanyl Death at North Florida Jail
(p 23)
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Virginia Sheriff Sued After “Catfishing” Deputy Kills Family of California Teen Victim
(p 23)
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Two Ohio Prisoners and Two Guards Tried for Assaults
(p 24)
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Seventh Circuit: Heck Bars Civil Rights Challenges to Civil Commitment
by Matthew Clarke
(p 24)
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The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh
by St Clair, Jeffrey
(p 26)
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Bankruptcy Threatens $500,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Housing Discrimination Against Former Prisoners in New York City
(p 31)
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“Are You Freaking Kidding Me?” Former BOP Warden Accuses Guards of Recruiting Prisoners for Assaults at Troubled Lockup in Illinois
by David Reutter
(p 32)
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Contaminated Water a Longstanding Problem at Nebraska Women’s Prison
(p 33)
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Lawsuit Alleges Black ICE Detainee Subjected to Racial Slurs, Choked in Restraint Chair at Pennsylvania Jail
by Matthew Clarke
(p 34)
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Arkansas Sheriff Grilled Over Hit Netflix Show Filmed at Jail
(p 35)
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His Appeal Lost for 28 Years, Texas Prisoner Finally Off Death Row
(p 35)
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Botched Idaho Execution Halted
by Douglas Ankney
(p 36)
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BOP Lifts Maximum Age for New Guards to 40
(p 37)
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Colorado Law Creates “Rebuttable Presumption” Against Incarcerating Pregnant Women
(p 38)
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Executions Rise in 2023, Number on Death Row Falls
(p 39)
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CDCR Loses Suit Over Release of Employee Misconduct Records
(p 40)
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Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges
(p 41)
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More Alabama Prisoners’ Families Say Their Corpses Were Returned Without Organs
(p 42)
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$20.5 Million Settlement for Two Kentucky Prisoners Exonerated and Freed After 22 Years
by David Reutter
(p 43)
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$7 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Detainee’s Death in California’s Santa Rita Jail
by Matthew Clarke
(p 44)
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How Parole and Probation “No-Association” Conditions Hamper Successful Reentry
(p 46)
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Florida County Pays $300,000 to Settle Jail Suicide Suit
by Matthew Clarke
(p 47)
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Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison
(p 47)
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Memphis Jail Accused of Routine Over-Detention in Suit Over Detainee’s Murder
(p 48)
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Atheist Chaplain Attends Atheist Oklahoma Prisoner During Execution
(p 48)
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Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets
(p 50)
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Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposed Weak Washington DOC Response
(p 50)
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Eleven Years After Consent Decree Entered, New Orleans Jail Still Not Compliant
(p 51)
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$5 Million Settlement in Death of Georgia Prisoner Left by Guards in Cell on Fire
by David Reutter
(p 52)
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$500,000 Jury Award Cut to $250,000 for Pennsylvania Prisoner Brutally Beaten by Guards
by Douglas Ankney
(p 53)
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Watchdog Finds “Alarming Conditions” at BOP Women’s Lockup in Florida
by David Reutter
(p 54)
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Texas Detainee Raped in Jail Sues Macy’s for False Facial-ID Match That Led to Arrest
(p 54)
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Report Finds Current Path of Florida Prison System “Unsustainable”
by David Reutter
(p 55)
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Settlement Obligates Washington DOC to Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Trans Prisoners
(p 56)
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Over $71,000 Awarded to Michigan Prisoner for Sexual Abuse by Guard
by Matthew Clarke
(p 57)
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Elderly Ohio Prisoner Beaten by Cellmate Despite Warning Guards, Who Cheered Attack
(p 58)
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Conflicting Reports from New Hampshire Prison Officials Before Guard Charged in Psychiatric Detainee’s Death
(p 58)
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Georgia Prisoner Stabs Warden
(p 59)
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U.N. Panel Finds Rampant Racism in U.S. Criminal Justice System
(p 59)
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$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing
by David Reutter
(p 60)
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Lawsuit Over Mailroom Abuses by Washington DOC Leads to Policy Changes
(p 61)
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News in Brief
(p 62)
May
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Aramark: Prison Food for Thought
(p 1)
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Southern California Jail Guard Arrested With 104 Pounds of Fentanyl
(p 10)
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From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 10)
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Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts
(p 11)
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$500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days
by David Reutter
(p 11)
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These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years
by Victoria Law
(p 12)
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Six Deaths in Just Over Six Months at Alabama Jail
(p 15)
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Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide
by Douglas Ankney
(p 16)
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Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month
by Douglas Ankney
(p 17)
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Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower
(p 17)
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$32,000 Settlement for Failure to Provide Insulin to Diabetic Wisconsin Prisoner
(p 18)
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Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration
(p 18)
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$7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment
(p 19)
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Autistic Detainee’s Death in Pittsburgh Jail Blamed on “Culture” That Left Him “Punished Instead of Treated”
(p 20)
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HIV and Incarcerated People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Douglas Ankney
(p 21)
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$6,500 Paid to Illinois Prisoner After Denied Records Request
(p 21)
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Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged
(p 22)
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$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing
by David Reutter
(p 23)
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Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged
(p 23)
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Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed
(p 24)
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Class-Action Challenge to Medical Care at Tennessee Jail Results in $3.8 Million Settlement
(p 24)
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Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose
by David Reutter
(p 26)
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Arizona Sheriff Accused of Misusing Detainee Funds to Buy Guns, Ammo
(p 27)
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Three Texas Prison Guards Among 13 Charged in Sprawling Smuggling Scheme
(p 27)
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Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths
by Matthew Clarke
(p 28)
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Washington Superior Court Says Jail Cannot Bill Poor Detainees for Medical Care
(p 29)
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Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape
by Matthew Clarke
(p 31)
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Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath
(p 32)
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Ninth Circuit Refunds Filing Fee to “Struck-Out” California Prisoner Denied Indigent Status Under PLRA
by Matthew Clarke
(p 34)
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Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee
(p 35)
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Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption?
by Douglas Ankney
(p 35)
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The Graying of American Prisons
(p 36)
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$10 Million Reimbursed for Vacated Washington Drug Possession Convictions
by David Reutter
(p 37)
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Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth
by Douglas Ankney
(p 37)
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“Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit
by Matthew Clarke
(p 38)
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Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands
by Douglas Ankney
(p 39)
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Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up
by David Reutter
(p 40)
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FTC Orders GTL/ViaPath to Help 650,000 Customers Whose Info Was Stolen, Posted on Dark Web
by Douglas Ankney
(p 41)
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Three-Year Sentence for One of Four BOP Employees Charged With Ignoring Fatally Ill Federal Prisoner in Virginia
(p 41)
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“There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee
by Edward Lyon
(p 43)
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Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste
by David Reutter
(p 44)
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Qualified Immunity Denied to Former New Mexico Warden in Prisoner’s Sexual Abuse Claim
(p 46)
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Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired
(p 47)
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HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case
(p 47)
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BOP Guards Plead Guilty in Smuggling Ring at Closed Manhattan Lockup
(p 48)
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San Diego Jury Deadlocks on Charges Against Jail Doctor in Detainee’s Death, Nurse Acquitted
(p 48)
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Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak
by Douglas Ankney
(p 49)
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Virginia Supreme Court Denies New Sentence Credits to State Prisoner Serving “Mixed” Sentence
by Douglas Ankney
(p 50)
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Ohio Supreme Court Orders Records Produced for State Prisoner
by David Reutter
(p 51)
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Massachusetts Makes Calls Free From Prisons and Jails
(p 51)
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$25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years
by David Reutter
(p 52)
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Seventh Circuit Lets Illinois Prisoner Proceed In Forma Pauperis, Despite Trust Account Balance Exceeding Filing Fee
by Douglas Ankney
(p 53)
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Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform
(p 54)
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BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas
(p 54)
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Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits
by David Reutter
(p 55)
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$15,000 to Virginia Prisoner Mauled by DOC K-9
by Matthew Clarke
(p 56)
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BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown
(p 56)
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California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers
(p 57)
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“Sugar Daddy” Pennsylvania Constable Accused of Recruiting “Sugar Babies” at Jail
(p 58)
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West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy
by David Reutter
(p 58)
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North Carolinian Left in Jail Awaiting Trial for 11 Years
(p 59)
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Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars
(p 59)
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Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail
by David Reutter
(p 60)
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News in Brief
(p 61)
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Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died
by David Reutter
(p 61)
April
-
Fourth Circuit Finds No Defamation for Inaccurate Media Reporting of Criminal Record of Former Federal Prisoner in West Virginia
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Eleventh Circuit: “More than Gross Negligence” Required to Prove Deliberate Indifference
by David Reutter
-
“Sisters-In-Law” of Brazilian Prisoners Going Viral on TikTok
by Jo Ellen Nott
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Lawsuit By California Youth Alliance Prompts County Probation Chiefs to Dissolve Secretive Nonprofit
by Jo Ellen Nott
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As ICE Data Errors Persist, GEO Group Cashes In
by Chuck Sharman
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Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail
by David Reutter
-
$155 Million Settlement for 10,000 California Prison Guard Supervisors in Wage Lawsuit
by David Reutter
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After Stripping Crucial Jail Services, NYC Splurges on $90,000 in Submachine Guns for Rikers Island Guards
by Jordan Arizmendi
-
BOP Guard, Nurse in Virginia Indicted in Prisoner’s Death
by Chuck Sharman
-
Florida Supreme Court Bans ‘Vexatious’ Prisoner From Filing Further Pro Se Petitions
by David Reutter
-
Fourth Circuit: South Carolina Prisoner’s Bivens Claim Must Detail Unconstitutional Acts of Each Defendant
by Benjamin Tschirhart
-
Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Detainee Suffering Fatal Seizure Might Have Been Faking or Might Have Gotten Better
by David Reutter
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Indiana Prisoner Sues Prison Abolition Group, Wins $1,097 Default Judgment
by Mark Wilson
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Seventh Circuit Grants Qualified Immunity to Illinois Jail Guards Who Relied on Nurse’s Opinion that Detainee Was “Faking” Symptoms Before He Died
by David Reutter
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$175,000 Awarded to Former California Detainee Whose Suit Prompted DOJ Investigation and Settlement Requiring Structural Changes at Jail
by Douglas Ankney
-
$1.4 Million Verdict for Florida Jail Guard Injured in Transport Van Crash
by David Reutter
-
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison
by David Reutter
-
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails
by Chuck Sharman
-
Colorado Becomes Seventh State to Prohibit Jailing Immigrants for ICE
by Jordan Arizmendi
-
Young Hong Kong Protestors Held in “Deradicalization” Camps
by Gregory Teixeira
-
NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits
by David Reutter
(p 1)
-
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 9)
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Woman Denied Cardiac Care in Federal Prison in Texas—Despite Personal Assurance of BOP Medical Director
(p 9)
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Drunken “Karen” Jail Guard in Michigan Invades Former Home, Demands to Speak to Prosecutor When Cops Arrive
(p 10)
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With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole
(p 10)
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Months-Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits
(p 11)
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Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days
(p 11)
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Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available
(p 12)
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From Prison Cook to Praised Pizza Chef
(p 13)
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Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery
(p 13)
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Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired
(p 14)
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428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years
(p 15)
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California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards
(p 15)
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One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails
(p 16)
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Sentencing Project Finds “Important Inroads” Against Mass Incarceration, Racial Inequality Behind Bars
(p 17)
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Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute
by Matthew Clarke
(p 18)
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HRDC Awarded Over $130,000 in Legal Costs and Fees for Defendant’s “Bad Faith” in Maine Records Lawsuit
by David Reutter
(p 18)
-
Oregon Prisoner’s Parole Deferral Based on “Dangerous Offender” Statute Reversed
(p 19)
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Maryland Compensates Exonerated Prisoner Over $340,000
(p 20)
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Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee
by David Reutter
(p 21)
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$33 Million Awarded to Family of Oklahoma Jail Detainee Mocked By Nurse and Guards As He Died Begging for Help
by Douglas Ankney
(p 22)
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$9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-Related Illness Suit
by Matthew Clarke
(p 23)
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Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery
by David Reutter
(p 24)
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Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing
(p 24)
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Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth
by David Reutter
(p 26)
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$1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide
by David Reutter
(p 27)
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Louisiana Supreme Court Springs Prisoner From Death Row
(p 27)
-
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree
by Douglas Ankney
(p 28)
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California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails
(p 29)
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Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent”
by Douglas Ankney
(p 29)
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Massachusetts High Court Calls Denial of Prisoner’s Medical Parole without Risk Assessment Arbitrary and Capricious
by Douglas Ankney
(p 31)
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Third Circuit Revives Disabled New Jersey Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Walking Cane
by Douglas Ankney
(p 32)
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Nine Employees Arrested at Troubled South Carolina Jail
(p 34)
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Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School
(p 35)
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Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help
(p 35)
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Exceptional Punishments
by Kate Weisburd
(p 36)
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N.J. Prison Guard Sacked Over Mock George Floyd Killing
(p 37)
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Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup
(p 38)
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Russian Opposition Leader Dies in Prison
(p 39)
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Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018
by Matthew Clarke
(p 40)
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$8.5 Million Settlement After Pretrial Detainee Suffocated by Guards and Medical Staff at Virginia Psychiatric Hospital
by David Reutter
(p 41)
-
$11.6 Million Settlement Reached in HRDC Debit Release Card Case in Washington; California Victory Remanded
(p 42)
-
Georgia Sheriff Resigns After Groping TV Judge’s Breast
(p 43)
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North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter
by Matthew Clarke
(p 44)
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Finding Indiana Grievance Process “Unavailable,” Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to 22 Prisoners on Same Day
(p 46)
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Alabama Denies Parole to Former Sheriff Convicted of Corruption
(p 47)
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Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement
(p 47)
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Eleventh Circuit Calls Georgia Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit Outside PLRA “Strike Zone”
(p 48)
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$19.3 Million Awarded to Former Illinois Prisoner Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted by Prison Counselor
(p 50)
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Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism
by Matthew Clarke
(p 51)
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Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends
(p 51)
-
Washington DOC Outfits Guards with Narcan
(p 52)
-
Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes
by Matthew Clarke
(p 52)
-
Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC
(p 54)
-
Fifth Circuit Finds Louisiana Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Not Sufficiently “Atypical” to Violate the Constitution
by David Reutter
(p 55)
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Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria
by Douglas Ankney
(p 56)
-
Eighth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Missouri Prison Chief in Sexual Abuse Claims Against Former Guard
by David Reutter
(p 57)
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Ninth Circuit Says Federal Prisoner in California May Have Bivens Claim for Delays in Medical Care Allegedly to Cover Up Assault by BOP Guard
(p 58)
-
$2,000 Paid to Former Arkansas Jail Detainees Given Horse Dewormer for COVID-19
by Douglas Ankney
(p 59)
-
At BOP California “Rape Club” Prison: Historic Ruling, FBI Raid, Warden Removed
(p 60)
-
News in Brief
(p 61)
March
-
Overcrowded and Understaffed, Oklahoma County Jail Remains “Deplorable”
by David Reutter
(p 1)
-
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 7)
-
Lawsuit Claims Seattle’s King County Jail Shows Little Improvement in Quarter Century Since “Hammer Agreement”
(p 8)
-
No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops
(p 8)
-
Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks
(p 9)
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With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?”
(p 10)
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Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist
(p 10)
-
U.S. Sentencing Commission Greenlights Retroactive Sentence Reductions
(p 11)
-
Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music
by Maurice Chammah
(p 12)
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Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm
by Douglas Ankney
(p 14)
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Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free
(p 15)
-
Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own
(p 15)
-
California Slowed, But Not Barred from “Dumping” Sick, Indigent Parolees on Public Hospitals
(p 16)
-
Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision
(p 17)
-
Rikers Island Detainees Given Pricey Weight-Loss Surgery but Little Follow-Up Care
(p 17)
-
Moms Released from Massachusetts Prison Decry Dearth of Help
(p 18)
-
Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner
by David Reutter
(p 19)
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DOJ Finds ADA Violations in Arizona Prisons, Demands Improvements
(p 20)
-
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release
(p 21)
-
Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide
by David Reutter
(p 21)
-
Eighth Circuit Remands ADA Claims—But Not Constitutional Claims—of Paralyzed Arkansas Jail Detainee
by David Reutter
(p 22)
-
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist
(p 23)
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“More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release
(p 24)
-
Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution
(p 24)
-
Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports
(p 26)
-
HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner
(p 26)
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Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far
by Casey Bastian, Douglas Ankney
(p 28)
-
Seventh Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Seized $10,000
by David Reutter
(p 31)
-
Alabama Prisons Facing Third Class-Action Lawsuit
(p 32)
-
Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard
by David Reutter
(p 34)
-
South Carolina Sheriff Ordered to Pay $37,500 in Fees and Costs in Jail FOIA Case
by Matthew Clarke
(p 35)
-
North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud
(p 35)
-
New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication
by Matthew Clarke
(p 36)
-
Guard and Four Summit Food Service Employees Arrested for Smuggling at Troubled Atlanta Jail
(p 36)
-
Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit
by David Reutter
(p 37)
-
$470,000 Settlement After Texas Jail Nurses Fabricate Vital Signs for Detainee Who Died
by Douglas Ankney
(p 38)
-
New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program
by Matthew Clarke
(p 39)
-
BOP Pays $40,000 to Prisoner Sexually Assaulted at Florida Lockup by Guard, Who Must Pay Her $1 Million
by David Reutter
(p 40)
-
Serial Killer Murdered by Cellmate at Texas Lockup
(p 41)
-
California Felony-Murder Reform Shaves 11,000 Years Off 600 Prisoner Sentences
by Douglas Ankney
(p 42)
-
Seventh Circuit Says Lack of Expert Testimony Dooms Illinois Prisoner’s Medical Neglect Claim
by Douglas Ankney
(p 43)
-
Texas Fights Fetal Rights After Forcing Prison Guard to Stay At Work Until She Delivered Stillborn Baby
(p 44)
-
Suit Filed After Mentally Ill Detainee Starves to Death in Miami Jail
by David Reutter
(p 47)
-
Senators Grill BOP Chief—Then Say They’ll Toss Her More Money
(p 47)
-
Nevada Prisoner Strikes Out in Access-to-Courts Claim
by David Reutter
(p 48)
-
New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided
(p 50)
-
Eighth Circuit Affirms $800,000 Award After Arkansas Jail Detainee’s Fatal Appendix Rupture
by Matthew Clarke
(p 51)
-
New Minnesota Justice Center Aims to be More ‘Humane’
(p 51)
-
Wellpath Held in Contempt in Suit at California Jail
(p 52)
-
Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time
(p 52)
-
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Wisconsin Prisoner’s ADA Claim for Untreated Knee Injury
by Matthew Clarke
(p 54)
-
California Prison Fined $1.7 Million for Stormwater Discharges, Environmental Violations
(p 54)
-
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against Florida Jail That Forced Detainee to Scan Legal Mail Into Computer with Memory Chip
by David Reutter
(p 55)
-
Illinois Failing to Grant Dying Prisoners Medical Releases
(p 56)
-
Louisiana Fugitive Recaptured After 32 Years
(p 56)
-
MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons
(p 57)
-
Florida Pastor Accused of Running Shoplifting Ring With DUI Diversion Program Participants
(p 57)
-
$900,000 Settlement Reached With Ohio Jail in Detainee’s Fatal Seizure
by David Reutter
(p 58)
-
Tribal Courts Expand ‘Healing to Wellness’ Rehabilitation Programs
(p 59)
-
Four TDCJ Guards Resign, Seven Suspended for Beating Handcuffed Prisoner Into Coma
(p 60)
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Oklahoma Parole Board Resignations Threaten Prisoner Clemencies
(p 61)
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Michigan Reaches $1.03 Million Settlement with Exonerated Prisoner
(p 61)
-
After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball?
(p 62)
-
News in Brief
(p 62)
February
-
Commissary and Food Service Privatization Strands Florida Prisoners in ‘Food Desert’
by David Reutter
(p 1)
-
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 9)
-
Virginia Settles Suit Over Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Hepatitis C for $700,000
by David Reutter
(p 10)
-
Eleventh Circuit Refuses to Reimpose Death Sentence for Intellectually Disabled Alabama Prisoner
(p 11)
-
Deaths and Lawsuits Mount at “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail
(p 12)
-
Three L.A. Jail Gang Leaders Murdered
(p 12)
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Nine Guilty So Far in Sprawling California Aryan Brotherhood Case
(p 14)
-
$3 Million Settlement for Illinois Pretrial Detainee’s Opioid Withdrawal Death
by David Reutter
(p 15)
-
First Circuit Lets BOP Take Prisoner’s Entire $10,956.36 Trust Account Balance for Restitution
by Douglas Ankney
(p 16)
-
BOP Evacuates Federal Prison in Florida After Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
(p 17)
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$2.9 Million Paid by Maryland to Exonerated Former Prisoner
(p 17)
-
Censoring Women’s Health
by Kwaneta Harris
(p 18)
-
Second Circuit Says New York Prisons Must Answer for Denying Court-Ordered Rehab
by David Reutter
(p 20)
-
In Suit Over Connecticut Prisoner’s Death, Attorney General Will No Longer Represent Guard Convicted of Assault
(p 21)
-
South Carolina Pays $200,000 to Jail Detainees Exposed to Toxic Fumes
by Douglas Ankney
(p 21)
-
Ninth Circuit Revives Challenge by Federal Prisoner in Arizona to BOP’s 300-Minute Monthly Phone Cap
by David Reutter
(p 22)
-
No Data to Prove Whether $600-Million California Parole Effort Worked
(p 23)
-
Maine Prison Official Charged with Theft and Bribery in Decade-Long Kickback Scheme
(p 24)
-
Inmate Records Released from Closed Washington Psychiatric Lockup
(p 24)
-
Ohio Prisoner Wins $2,000 Settlement for Guard Abuse Claims, Loses Appeal to Uncover Identity of Prison Officials Who Negotiated It
by Matthew Clarke
(p 26)
-
First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences
(p 26)
-
Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism
(p 27)
-
Resistance to Bail Reform Powered By Untruthful Scaremongering
by David Reutter
(p 29)
-
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Prison Chief for Prolonging Prisoner’s Detention with Sex Offender Misclassification
by David Reutter
(p 31)
-
Sixth Circuit Revives Suit by Pregnant Mentally Ill Michigan Detainee Allegedly Kicked in Her Womb by Jail Guard, Losing Baby
(p 32)
-
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guard Accused of Grabbing and Squeezing Detainee’s Penis
by Mark Wilson
(p 34)
-
Rikers Island Guard Accidentally Records Himself Planting Shiv in Prisoner’s Cell
(p 35)
-
Seventh Circuit Upholds Disciplinary Sanction Revoking Over 15 Years of Indiana Prisoner’s Good Time
by Douglas Ankney
(p 36)
-
Record Temperatures in Southern Prisons Called Cruel and Unusual Punishment
(p 37)
-
Fifth Circuit Says Both Texas Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit and His Lost Appeal Count as “Strikes”
by Douglas Ankney
(p 38)
-
Restorative Justice Program Boosts South Carolina Prison and Public Safety
by David Reutter
(p 39)
-
Fifth Circuit: Texas Jail Guard’s Use of Taser on Compliant Detainee Unconstitutional
by David Reutter
(p 40)
-
Lawsuit Claims Kentucky Prison Officials Ignored Chaplain’s Sexual Abuse
(p 41)
-
Tenth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Oklahoma Jail Guard Who Kneed Handcuffed Prisoner’s Face
by Matthew Clarke
(p 42)
-
BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois
by Douglas Ankney
(p 43)
-
DOJ Concludes BOP Pretrial Detainees Need Improvements in Access to Attorneys
by Matthew Clarke
(p 44)
-
Ohio Prisoner Has Now Collected $5,700 for Denied Public Records Requests
(p 47)
-
Virginia Sheriff Indicted for Selling Auxiliary Deputy Sheriff Credentials
by Matthew Clarke
(p 48)
-
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Claim of Illinois Prisoner Held 18 Months After Release for Refusing to Sign Incomplete Form
by Matthew Clarke
(p 50)
-
Oklahoma Prisoner’s Conviction Tossed After Judge’s Affair With Prosecutor Uncovered
by Douglas Ankney
(p 51)
-
San Diego County Jail Accused of Letting Mentally Ill Detainee Starve to Death
by Matthew Clarke
(p 52)
-
Washington Fined Over $100 Million for Delays in Competency Evaluations and Restoration
by Douglas Ankney
(p 52)
-
Seventh Circuit Finds Jail Guard May Be Liable for Delayed Response to Illinois Detainee’s Fatal Heart Attack
by Douglas Ankney
(p 54)
-
Misconduct Shades Sexual Assault Suit As Hawaii Settles With Prisoners for $2 Million
by Douglas Ankney
(p 55)
-
Subclass Certified and Settlement Proposed to Address ADA Violations at Long-Plagued San Diego County Jails
by Douglas Ankney
(p 56)
-
Former Oklahoma Undersheriff Gets 22 Months In Prison for Beating Handcuffed Jail Detainee
by Douglas Ankney
(p 57)
-
Third Circuit Revives Claim by Federal Prisoner in Pennsylvania that Delayed Cancer Treatment Cost Him a Testicle
by David Reutter
(p 58)
-
Texas Looks to Find Prison Guards in High Schools
(p 59)
-
Almost $950,000 Paid by Inmate Services Corp. for Hellish Prisoner Transports
by David Reutter
(p 60)
-
Champion of Death Row Prisoners Accused of Spoiling Oklahoman’s Clemency
(p 61)
-
Michigan Supreme Court: DOC Owes Attorney Fees in Public Records Case Even if Plaintiff Is Represented Pro Bono
by Matthew Clarke
(p 62)
-
News in Brief
(p 63)
-
Cash Bail Eliminated in Illinois, Reduced in Los Angeles County
(p None)
January
-
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare
by J.D. Schmidt
(p 1)
-
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
(p 10)
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$7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk
(p 11)
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Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless”
(p 12)
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Misadventures in Mail Censorship
by Robert Schaeffer
(p 14)
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Hear Us Now? Hearing Impaired Tennessee Prisoners Secure Injunction
(p 17)
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Private Prisons Hold Almost 100,000 Prisoners, 8% of Total U.S. Prison Population
(p 17)
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Fifth BOP Employee Sentenced in California “Rape Club,” Another Lawsuit Filed
(p 18)
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Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic
(p 19)
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Record-Setting $7 Million Settlement Caps LaSalle’s Legacy at Texarkana Jail
by Matthew Clarke
(p 20)
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153 Killed in Custody in Salvadorian Gang Crackdown
(p 23)
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Washington Agencies Sanctioned for Discovery Violations Reach $3.1 Million Settlement with Disabled Woman Allegedly Abused at State Sanctioned Home
(p 24)
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Former L.A. County Jail Detainees Denied Promised Sentence Credits
(p 24)
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N.H.’s First Black Sheriff Charged With Embezzling $19,000
(p 26)
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Former Florida Guard Gets Five Years for Fatal Assault on Mentally Ill Prisoner
(p 26)
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Hurdles to Voting for Ex-Felons Rise in Tennessee and Virginia, Fall in Mississippi
(p 27)
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How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration
(p 28)
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“Brushed It Under the Rug”: Investigation Refutes Florida Sheriff’s Story About Jail Detainee’s Death
(p 28)
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Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator
(p 29)
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Virginia Leads the Nation in K-9 Attacks on Prisoners
(p 31)
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Nearly $75 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached For Delayed Releases from N.Y.C. Jails
(p 32)
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Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft
(p 34)
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$10,000 Verdict for Fired Guard’s Failure to Protect Louisiana Prisoner From Stabbing
by David Reutter
(p 35)
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$9,000 Settlement for Florida Prisoner’s Retaliation and Excessive Force Claims Against Guards
by David Reutter
(p 36)
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Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jail Time Must Be Credited When Charge Causing Jailing Read in At Sentencing
by Matthew Clarke
(p 37)
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The Good That Prisoner Rights Lawyers Do
(p 38)
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Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction
(p 38)
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New Head of “Constitutional Sheriffs” Calls MLK a “Thug”
(p 39)
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Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails
(p 40)
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Second Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity from Connecticut Officials Who Ignored Prisoner’s Scalp Lesions
by David Reutter
(p 42)
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Long Waits for Montana Jail Detainees Needing Competency Restoration Services
(p 43)
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West Virginia Pretrial Detainee’s Lawsuit for Sexual Abuse Survives Dismissal Stage
by David Reutter
(p 44)
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Eighth Circuit Says Arkansas Prisoner’s Medical Incapacity May Excuse PLRA Exhaustion Failure
(p 47)
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Despite “Ban the Box” Laws, Most Prisoners Still Unemployed a Year After Release
(p 48)
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Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana
(p 48)
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Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Against Kitchen Supervisor for Scalding From Spilled Hot Water
(p 50)
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Former New Mexico Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner, Suit Filed
(p 51)
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George Floyd’s Killer Stabbed 22 Times in Federal Prison in Arizona
(p 51)
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Ed Mead: Rest in Power
by Paul Wright
(p 52)
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Multiple Staffers Arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail
(p 54)
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The “Lunacy Zone:” How Mississippi Jails 700 Mentally Ill People a Year Without Charges
(p 55)
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Second Circuit Revives N.Y. Prisoner’s Suit Over Sing Sing Fire, 11 Other Prisoners Split $220,000 Settlement
(p 56)
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Maine Ends Prison Gerrymandering
(p 57)
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Fifth Circuit Revives Suit Against Texas Jailers Who Tasered Detainee Suffering Epileptic Seizure
by Douglas Ankney
(p 58)
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West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System
by David Reutter
(p 59)
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Nevada Prisoner Wins Injunction Requiring DOC to Provide Exercise Despite Guard Shortage
(p 60)
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Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction
(p 61)
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Florida Prisoners Not Required to File Rulemaking Petition to Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement
by David Reutter
(p 62)
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News in Brief
(p 63)