More from this issue:

1. The Crime of Being Poor, by Paul Wright
2. Texas Medical Provider Investigated for Mixing, Selling Bodies
3. Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit
4. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
5. No Termination of Special Parole Upon Deportation
6. The Shame of Prison Health, by Sasha Abramsky
7. Proof of Actual Rights Violation Required for Attorney Fee Award
8. Habeas Hints, by Kent Russell
9. Ohio Federal District Court Finds RLUIPA Constitutional
10. YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement
11. New Mexico Supreme court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit
12. Texas Tries to Hire Incompetent Doctors to Review Medical Care
13. Retaliatory Prisoner Transfer for Exercising First Amendment Rights is "Adverse Determination" Under the Privacy Act, by Bob Williams
14. Evidence Suppressed in California Ex-Parolee's Warrantless Search, by John E Dannenberg
15. PLRA Not Applied to Attorney Fees, $407,635 for Puerto Rican Prisoners
16. Texas Prisoners Have Limited Right to Appear at Expungement Hearing
17. Washington DOC Settles ADA Suit for $8,000, by Roger Smith
18. Seventh Circuit Vacates $1.8 Million Award in BOP Suicide
19. Injunction Allows Legal Mail Between Iowa Prisoners
20. "Atypical And Significant" Hardship Segregation Claim Cannot Be Dismissed Under §1915(e)(2)
21. $345,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Rape Suit
22. $14 Million Settlement in U.S. Corrections Corporation Pension Plan Suit, by Michael Rigby
23. Guajardo (Texas Prison Mail) Suit Dismissed
24. Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona
25. Washington Women's Medical Care Consent Decree Ended
26. Ex-Employee Wins $500,000 Religious Discrimination Award Against TDCJ
27. $174,175 Awarded in D.C. Conditions and Medical Suit
28. $250,000 Award for Texas Jail Paraplegic Upheld
29. Hawaii Adopts "Mailbox Rule" in Prisoner Civil Actions
30. New Jersey's Five Percenters an STG and a Religion, by David Reutter
31. Mailbox Rule Tolls Statute of Limitations in BOP Medical Suit
32. Incarcerated Father Retains Child Visitation Rights
33. PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Applicable to First Amendment Compensatory Damages
34. Third Circuit Holds PLRA Exhaustion Requirement an Affirmative Defense, by Bob Williams
35. Deposition Testimony Not Hearsay; Expert Must Satisfy Daubert in BOP Van Accident
36. News in Brief
37. Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time

More from these topics:

• Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jail Time Must Be Credited When Charge Causing Jailing Read in At Sentencing, Jan. 1, 2024. Sentencing, Good Time, Sentences - Corrections or Modifications of, Credits.
• Seventh Circuit: Whether Right to Counsel ‘Attaches’ Is Not Dependent on Defendant’s Appearance at Probable Cause Hearing, Sept. 1, 2023. Disciplinary Hearings, Court Appearances, Probable/Proximate Cause, After Request for Counsel.
• Changing Perception, Changing The Law, April 15, 2020. Sentencing, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
• Seventh Circuit: Trial Judge Violated 5th Amendment by Modifying Instructions to Allow Jury to Convict on Offenses Not Charged in Indictment, April 15, 2020. Sentencing.
• SCOTUS: ‘Serious Drug Offense’ Under ACCA Is Self-Defining, Match with Equivalent Federal Offense Not Required, April 15, 2020. Sentencing.
• Illinois Prisoner Locked Up Decades Without a Conviction or Sentence, April 1, 2020. Criminal Prosecution, Sentencing.
• Racial Disparity at Sentencing on the Rise, March 18, 2020. Racial Discrimination, Sentencing.
• Kansas Supreme Court: Claim of Illegal Sentence Raised for First Time on Appeal Entitled to Merits Review, March 18, 2020. Appeals, Sentencing.
• Utah District Court Finds First Step Act Gives Court Authority to Reduce Stacked 55-Year § 924(c) Sentence, March 18, 2020. Sentencing.
• Unsurprisingly Lenient Sentence for Rapist Cop, Feb. 19, 2020. Police Misconduct, Sentencing, Police.