More from this issue:

1. Overcrowded and Understaffed, Oklahoma County Jail Remains “Deplorable”, by David Reutter
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Lawsuit Claims Seattle’s King County Jail Shows Little Improvement in Quarter Century Since “Hammer Agreement”
4. No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops
5. Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks
6. Colorado Sheriff Resigns After Deputies Fatally Shoot Motorist
7. With Guard Arrests at Georgia Jail, Sheriff Asks, “What Are We Doing Wrong?”
8. U.S. Sentencing Commission Greenlights Retroactive Sentence Reductions
9. Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music, by Maurice Chammah
10. Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm, by Douglas Ankney
11. Massachusetts Becomes the Fifth State to Make Prison Phone Calls Free
12. Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own
13. California Slowed, But Not Barred from “Dumping” Sick, Indigent Parolees on Public Hospitals
14. Rikers Island Detainees Given Pricey Weight-Loss Surgery but Little Follow-Up Care
15. Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision
16. Moms Released from Massachusetts Prison Decry Dearth of Help
17. Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner, by David Reutter
18. DOJ Finds ADA Violations in Arizona Prisons, Demands Improvements
19. Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCare Medical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide, by David Reutter
20. Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release
21. Eighth Circuit Remands ADA Claims—But Not Constitutional Claims—of Paralyzed Arkansas Jail Detainee, by David Reutter
22. “Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist
23. “More jobs than people”: Prisoners Training to Work on Ohio Infrastructure Projects after Release
24. Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution
25. Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports
26. HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner
27. Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far, by Casey Bastian, Douglas Ankney
28. Seventh Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Seized $10,000, by David Reutter
29. Alabama Prisons Facing Third Class-Action Lawsuit
30. Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard, by David Reutter
31. North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud
32. South Carolina Sheriff Ordered to Pay $37,500 in Fees and Costs in Jail FOIA Case, by Matthew Clarke
33. Guard and Four Summit Food Service Employees Arrested for Smuggling at Troubled Atlanta Jail
34. New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication, by Matthew Clarke
35. Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit, by David Reutter
36. $470,000 Settlement After Texas Jail Nurses Fabricate Vital Signs for Detainee Who Died, by Douglas Ankney
37. New Jersey Supreme Court Revives Parolee’s Challenge to Administratively Imposed Treatment Program, by Matthew Clarke
38. BOP Pays $40,000 to Prisoner Sexually Assaulted at Florida Lockup by Guard, Who Must Pay Her $1 Million, by David Reutter
39. Serial Killer Murdered by Cellmate at Texas Lockup
40. California Felony-Murder Reform Shaves 11,000 Years Off 600 Prisoner Sentences, by Douglas Ankney
41. Seventh Circuit Says Lack of Expert Testimony Dooms Illinois Prisoner’s Medical Neglect Claim, by Douglas Ankney
42. Texas Fights Fetal Rights After Forcing Prison Guard to Stay At Work Until She Delivered Stillborn Baby
43. Suit Filed After Mentally Ill Detainee Starves to Death in Miami Jail, by David Reutter
44. Senators Grill BOP Chief—Then Say They’ll Toss Her More Money
45. Nevada Prisoner Strikes Out in Access-to-Courts Claim, by David Reutter
46. New Jersey Private Prison Ban Voided
47. Eighth Circuit Affirms $800,000 Award After Arkansas Jail Detainee’s Fatal Appendix Rupture, by Matthew Clarke
48. New Minnesota Justice Center Aims to be More ‘Humane’
49. Wellpath Held in Contempt in Suit at California Jail
50. Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time
51. Seventh Circuit Reinstates Wisconsin Prisoner’s ADA Claim for Untreated Knee Injury, by Matthew Clarke
52. California Prison Fined $1.7 Million for Stormwater Discharges, Environmental Violations
53. Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against Florida Jail That Forced Detainee to Scan Legal Mail Into Computer with Memory Chip, by David Reutter
54. Illinois Failing to Grant Dying Prisoners Medical Releases
55. Louisiana Fugitive Recaptured After 32 Years
56. Florida Pastor Accused of Running Shoplifting Ring With DUI Diversion Program Participants
57. MTC Returns $5.125 Million to Mississippi for “Ghost Workers” at Private Prisons
58. $900,000 Settlement Reached With Ohio Jail in Detainee’s Fatal Seizure, by David Reutter
59. Tribal Courts Expand ‘Healing to Wellness’ Rehabilitation Programs
60. Four TDCJ Guards Resign, Seven Suspended for Beating Handcuffed Prisoner Into Coma
61. Oklahoma Parole Board Resignations Threaten Prisoner Clemencies
62. Michigan Reaches $1.03 Million Settlement with Exonerated Prisoner
63. News in Brief
64. After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball?

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Fourth Circuit: Maryland’s First-Degree Assault Statute Is Indivisible so Conviction Is Not an ACCA Predicate for Sentencing Enhancement Purposes, May 15, 2024
• Tenth Circuit: Plea Not Knowing and Voluntary Where Plea Counsel Materially Misrepresented Defendant’s Right to Impartial Jury Selected Through Racially Nondiscriminatory Means, May 15, 2024
• New York Court of Appeals: SORA Designation Violates Defendant’s Due Process Rights Where Crime Involved No Sexual Contact or Motivation and Defendant Was Not a Sex Offender and Posed No Risk of Sexual Threat, May 15, 2024
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces Defendants Under Age 21 Ineligible for LWOP Sentences, May 15, 2024
• New Jersey Supreme Court Announces Extension of Eyewitness Identification Safeguards of Henderson to Pretrial Preparation Sessions and Provides Framework for Showing Photos During Pretrial Phase, May 15, 2024
• $175,000 Awarded to Former California Detainee Whose Suit Prompted DOJ Investigation and Settlement Requiring Structural Changes at Jail, April 26, 2024
• Eighth Circuit Announces ‘Categorical Approach’ Applies to SORNA Tier Analysis, April 15, 2024
• New York Court of Appeals Declines to Adopt Per Se Rule That Handcuffed Person Is Always ‘In Custody’ for Miranda Purposes, but Holds the Handcuffed Defendant Was ‘In Custody’ and Suppress Incriminating Statements, April 15, 2024
• Fifth Circuit: Admission of DHS Investigation Form G-166F at Trial Where Preparer of Form Did Not Testify Violates Confrontation Clause and Rule Against Hearsay, April 15, 2024
• Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Cellphones at the Border?, April 15, 2024

More from these topics:

• California Court of Appeal: Petitioner Has Constitutional Right to Be Present at Evidentiary Hearing Under Felony Murder Resentencing Law, May 15, 2024. Resentencing, De Novo Resentencing, Right to be Present.
• California Court of Appeal: Petitioner Has Constitutional Right to Be Present at Hearing to Determine Facts Surrounding Felony Murder Charges for Possible Resentencing Under § 1172.6, March 15, 2024. Resentencing, De Novo Resentencing, Right to be Present.
• California Court of Appeal Reverses Denial of Full Resentencing Under SB 483, March 15, 2024. Resentencing, De Novo Resentencing.
• New Mexico Supreme Court Announces Marquez’s Holding That ‘Crime of Shooting at or From Motor Vehicle Cannot Be Predicate Felony Supporting Charge of Felony Murder’ Is New Substantive Rule and Applies Retroactively, Feb. 15, 2024. Retroactivity, Murder/Felony Murder.
• Fifth Circuit Announces Revocation Judgments for Violation of Supervised Release Vacated Because Underlying Sentence Vacated, Feb. 15, 2024. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Resentencing, Revocation/Modification of Probation, etc., Revocation Proceedings.
• First Prisoners Released Two Years After Illinois Passed Law to Revisit Excessive Sentences, Feb. 1, 2024. State Law Claims, Resentencing.
• California Court of Appeal: Defendants Who Plead Guilty to Stipulated Sentence Eligible for Resentencing Under Amended § 1170.91, Jan. 15, 2024. State Statutes, Guilty Plea, Resentencing, De Novo Resentencing, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
• California Supreme Court Reinstates Petition for Resentencing Under SB 1437 Because Trial Court Misapprehended Le-gal Requirements for Proving Aiding and Abetting Implied Malice Murder, Dec. 15, 2023. Aiding and Abetting/Accessories, Resentencing.
• Tenth Circuit Announces District Court Erred in Applying Attempted Murder Cross-Reference Under U.S.S.G. § 2A2.1 Based on Malice Aforethought, Without Finding Intent to Kill, Nov. 1, 2023. Murder/Felony Murder, Unreasonable Application of Clearly Established Federal Law, Motive/Opportunity/Intent/Identity Evidence.
• New York Jailhouse Lawyer Wins Resentencing, Release, Oct. 15, 2023. Release and Reentry, Resentencing.