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Archive: 2024

April

• Young Hong Kong Protestors Held in “Deradicalization” Camps by Gregory Teixeira
• 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
• Lawsuit By California Youth Alliance Prompts County Probation Chiefs to Dissolve Secretive Nonprofit by Jo Ellen Nott
• As ICE Data Errors Persist, GEO Group Cashes In by Chuck Sharman
• 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
• 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
• Fourth Circuit Finds No Defamation for Inaccurate Media Reporting of Criminal Record of Former Federal Prisoner in West Virginia
• Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Detainee Suffering Fatal Seizure Might Have Been Faking or Might Have Gotten Better by David Reutter
• Indiana Prisoner Sues Prison Abolition Group, Wins $1,097 Default Judgment by Mark Wilson
• 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
• $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
• NaphCare: More Proof That Privatized Healthcare Deals Death and Misery to the Incarcerated to Enhance Profits by David Reutter (p 1)
• Woman Denied Cardiac Care in Federal Prison in Texas—Despite Personal Assurance of BOP Medical Director (p 9)
• From the Editor by Paul Wright (p 9)
• Drunken “Karen” Jail Guard in Michigan Invades Former Home, Demands to Speak to Prosecutor When Cops Arrive (p 10)
• With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole (p 10)
• Months-­Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits (p 11)
• Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days (p 11)
• Florida County Makes Free Jail Phone Calls Available (p 12)
• From Prison Cook to Praised Pizza Chef (p 13)
• Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery (p 13)
• Louisville Jail Records 15 Detainee Deaths, 16 Employees Fired (p 14)
• 428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years (p 15)
• California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards (p 15)
• One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails (p 16)
• Sentencing Project Finds “Important Inroads” Against Mass Incarceration, Racial Inequality Behind Bars (p 17)
• HRDC Awarded Over $130,000 in Legal Costs and Fees for Defendant’s “Bad Faith” in Maine Records Lawsuit by David Reutter (p 18)
• Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute by Matthew Clarke (p 18)
• Oregon Prisoner’s Parole Deferral Based on “Dangerous Offender” Statute Reversed (p 19)
• Maryland Compensates Exonerated Prisoner Over $340,000 (p 20)
• Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee by David Reutter (p 21)
• $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)
• $9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit by Matthew Clarke (p 23)
• Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery by David Reutter (p 24)
• Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing (p 24)
• Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter (p 26)
• Louisiana Supreme Court Springs Prisoner From Death Row (p 27)
• $1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide by David Reutter (p 27)
• Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney (p 28)
• Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent” by Douglas Ankney (p 29)
• California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails (p 29)
• Massachusetts High Court Calls Denial of Prisoner’s Medical Parole without Risk Assessment Arbitrary and Capricious by Douglas Ankney (p 31)
• Third Circuit Revives Disabled New Jersey Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Walking Cane by Douglas Ankney (p 32)
• Nine Employees Arrested at Troubled South Carolina Jail (p 34)
• Missouri Moms Jailed After Kids Miss Too Much School (p 35)
• Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help (p 35)
• Exceptional Punishments by Kate Weisburd (p 36)
• N.J. Prison Guard Sacked Over Mock George Floyd Killing (p 37)
• Third Circuit Unhappy with Federal Detainee’s Denied Marriage Request at Pennsylvania GEO Group Lockup (p 38)
• Russian Opposition Leader Dies in Prison (p 39)
• Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke (p 40)
• $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)
• North Carolina Court of Appeals Reinstates Parolee’s Parental Rights, Says Parole Conditions Barred Him from Visiting Minor Daughter by Matthew Clarke (p 44)
• Finding Indiana Grievance Process “Unavailable,” Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to 22 Prisoners on Same Day (p 46)
• Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement (p 47)
• Alabama Denies Parole to Former Sheriff Convicted of Corruption (p 47)
• Eleventh Circuit Calls Georgia Prisoner’s Dismissed Suit Outside PLRA “Strike Zone” (p 48)
• $19.3 Million Awarded to Former Illinois Prisoner Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted by Prison Counselor (p 50)
• Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends (p 51)
• Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke (p 51)
• Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Corizon Health in State Prisoner’s Death from Untreated Diabetes by Matthew Clarke (p 52)
• Washington DOC Outfits Guards with Narcan (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)
• 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)
• 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)
• No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops (p 8)
• Lawsuit Claims Seattle’s King County Jail Shows Little Improvement in Quarter Century Since “Hammer Agreement” (p 8)
• Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks (p 9)
• Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist (p 10)
• With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?” (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)
• Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm by Douglas Ankney (p 14)
• Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own (p 15)
• Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free (p 15)
• California Slowed, But Not Barred from “Dumping” Sick, Indigent Parolees on Public Hospitals (p 16)
• Rikers Island Detainees Given Pricey Weight-Loss Surgery but Little Follow-Up Care (p 17)
• Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision (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)
• 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)
• “More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release (p 24)
• Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution (p 24)
• HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner (p 26)
• Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports (p 26)
• 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)
• North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud (p 35)
• South Carolina Sheriff Ordered to Pay $37,500 in Fees and Costs in Jail FOIA Case by Matthew Clarke (p 35)
• Guard and Four Summit Food Service Employees Arrested for Smuggling at Troubled Atlanta Jail (p 36)
• New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication by Matthew Clarke (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)
• New Minnesota Justice Center Aims to be More ‘Humane’ (p 51)
• Eighth Circuit Affirms $800,000 Award After Arkansas Jail Detainee’s Fatal Appendix Rupture by Matthew Clarke (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)
• California Prison Fined $1.7 Million for Stormwater Discharges, Environmental Violations (p 54)
• Seventh Circuit Reinstates Wisconsin Prisoner’s ADA Claim for Untreated Knee Injury by Matthew Clarke (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)
• Michigan Reaches $1.03 Million Settlement with Exonerated Prisoner (p 61)
• Oklahoma Parole Board Resignations Threaten Prisoner Clemencies (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)
• Three L.A. Jail Gang Leaders Murdered (p 12)
• Deaths and Lawsuits Mount at “Disgusting” Atlanta Jail (p 12)
• 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)
• $2.9 Million Paid by Maryland to Exonerated Former Prisoner (p 17)
• BOP Evacuates Federal Prison in Florida After Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (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)
• South Carolina Pays $200,000 to Jail Detainees Exposed to Toxic Fumes by Douglas Ankney (p 21)
• In Suit Over Connecticut Prisoner’s Death, Attorney General Will No Longer Represent Guard Convicted of Assault (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)
• $7.75 Million Paid by San Diego County After Jail Detainee Severely Injured in Fall from Top Bunk (p 11)
• Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless” (p 12)
• Misadventures in Mail Censorship by Robert Schaeffer (p 14)
• Hear Us Now? Hearing Impaired Tennessee Prisoners Secure Injunction (p 17)
• Private Prisons Hold Almost 100,000 Prisoners, 8% of Total U.S. Prison Population (p 17)
• Fifth BOP Employee Sentenced in California “Rape Club,” Another Lawsuit Filed (p 18)
• Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic (p 19)
• Record-Setting $7 Million Settlement Caps LaSalle’s Legacy at Texarkana Jail by Matthew Clarke (p 20)
• 153 Killed in Custody in Salvadorian Gang Crackdown (p 23)
• Former L.A. County Jail Detainees Denied Promised Sentence Credits (p 24)
• Washington Agencies Sanctioned for Discovery Violations Reach $3.1 Million Settlement with Disabled Woman Allegedly Abused at State Sanctioned Home (p 24)
• N.H.’s First Black Sheriff Charged With Embezzling $19,000 (p 26)
• Former Florida Guard Gets Five Years for Fatal Assault on Mentally Ill Prisoner (p 26)
• Hurdles to Voting for Ex-Felons Rise in Tennessee and Virginia, Fall in Mississippi (p 27)
• “Brushed It Under the Rug”: Investigation Refutes Florida Sheriff’s Story About Jail Detainee’s Death (p 28)
• How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration (p 28)
• Corizon Health Bankruptcy Delayed by Revelation of Attorney’s Affair With Mediator (p 29)
• Virginia Leads the Nation in K-9 Attacks on Prisoners (p 31)
• Nearly $75 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached For Delayed Releases from N.Y.C. Jails (p 32)
• Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft (p 34)
• $10,000 Verdict for Fired Guard’s Failure to Protect Louisiana Prisoner From Stabbing by David Reutter (p 35)
• $9,000 Settlement for Florida Prisoner’s Retaliation and Excessive Force Claims Against Guards by David Reutter (p 36)
• Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jail Time Must Be Credited When Charge Causing Jailing Read in At Sentencing by Matthew Clarke (p 37)
• The Good That Prisoner Rights Lawyers Do (p 38)
• Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction (p 38)
• New Head of “Constitutional Sheriffs” Calls MLK a “Thug” (p 39)
• Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails (p 40)
• Second Circuit Strips Qualified Immunity from Connecticut Officials Who Ignored Prisoner’s Scalp Lesions by David Reutter (p 42)
• Long Waits for Montana Jail Detainees Needing Competency Restoration Services (p 43)
• West Virginia Pretrial Detainee’s Lawsuit for Sexual Abuse Survives Dismissal Stage by David Reutter (p 44)
• Eighth Circuit Says Arkansas Prisoner’s Medical Incapacity May Excuse PLRA Exhaustion Failure (p 47)
• Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana (p 48)
• Despite “Ban the Box” Laws, Most Prisoners Still Unemployed a Year After Release (p 48)
• Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Claim Against Kitchen Supervisor for Scalding From Spilled Hot Water (p 50)
• Former New Mexico Guard Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Prisoner, Suit Filed (p 51)
• George Floyd’s Killer Stabbed 22 Times in Federal Prison in Arizona (p 51)
• Ed Mead: Rest in Power by Paul Wright (p 52)
• Multiple Staffers Arrested at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail (p 54)
• The “Lunacy Zone:” How Mississippi Jails 700 Mentally Ill People a Year Without Charges (p 55)
• Second Circuit Revives N.Y. Prisoner’s Suit Over Sing Sing Fire, 11 Other Prisoners Split $220,000 Settlement (p 56)
• Maine Ends Prison Gerrymandering (p 57)
• Fifth Circuit Revives Suit Against Texas Jailers Who Tasered Detainee Suffering Epileptic Seizure by Douglas Ankney (p 58)
• West Virginia High Court Decides Medical Practice Liability Act Not Applicable to Prison System by David Reutter (p 59)
• Nevada Prisoner Wins Injunction Requiring DOC to Provide Exercise Despite Guard Shortage (p 60)
• Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction (p 61)
• Florida Prisoners Not Required to File Rulemaking Petition to Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement by David Reutter (p 62)
• News in Brief (p 63)