More from this issue:

1. Abu Ghraib's Stain on Military Medicine, by Steven Miles
2. New Jersey County Settles With Imprisoned Deaf Man For $175,000
3. From the Editor
4. PLN's ADX Censorship Suit Partially Survives Motion to Dismiss
5. Wisconsin Enacts Law, Prison Reforms Regarding Sex Assaults
6. California Establishes Statewide Hepatitis-C Management Program
7. Wisconsin County Pays $6.95 Million To Settle Strip-Search Suit
8. Four Guards Suspended By CCA Following Their Murder of Prisoner in Tennessee Jail
9. Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined
10. PLN Wins Washington DOC Bulk Mail Suit, Again, by John E Dannenberg
11. Untreated Dental Infection Kills California Prisoner
12. Nine California Guards Fired For Prisoner Assaults
13. CCA Pays House Majority Leader’s Personal Charity $100,000
14. New Federal Civil Rights Tax Relief Act Ends Double Taxation On Attorney Fee Awards
15. Phone Companies Gouge California Jail Prisoners' Families
16. California Criminal Fine Surcharges Ruled Ex Post Facto
17. New Federal Civil Rights Tax Relief Act Ends Double Taxation On Attorney Fee Awards
18. New York Legislator Pays For CSC-Chauffeured Rides
19. Concubine and Children Cannot Sue for Wrongful Death of Federal Prisoner
20. California Awards MCI WorldCom Another Sole-Source Prisoner Phone Contract
21. Louisiana Jail Settles Suicide Suit For $3 Million
22. California Youth Authority Fires Six For Pummeling Prisoners And Filing False Reports
23. Court Holds Florida's Administrative Processing Fee is Constitutional
24. Florida's Faith-Based Programs Under Watchful Eyes, by David Reutter
25. $40,000 To Settle Excessive Force Claim At Los Angeles County Jail
26. Rhode Island Prisoner Awarded $3,900 for False Imprisonment
27. Texas State Equipment and Employees Used for Private Prison Labor Lobbying, by Matthew Clarke
28. Georgia Prison Official Immune, Prison Nurse Not, in Prisoner's Suicide
29. Race-Based California Prison Job Lockout May Violate Equal Protection
30. Illinois Appeals Court Reinstates Prisoner's Disciplinary Mandamus Petition
31. New Jersey DOC Liable for Prisoner Death Caused by CMS, by Robert Woodman
32. No Miranda Error During FBI Office Interrogation Where Parolee Knew He Was Free To Leave
33. Fifth Circuit Allows Sexual-Orientation Discrimination in Texas Prisoner Rape Suit, by Matthew Clarke
34. Ohio Appeals Court Upholds $7,820 Award for 70 Days Unlawful Incarceration
35. D.C. Prisoner Receives $19,500 Settlement for Slip-and-Fall
36. BOP Good-Time Statute Upheld By Three Circuits
37. First Circuit Rejects Interlocutory Appeal for Authorities Accused of Frame-Up
38. Heck Doesn't Apply to Parole Revocation Incarceration Without Attorney or Hearing
39. News in Brief
40. Triple-Dipping Jail Psychiatrist Fired For Past Medicare Fraud Conviction

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• Third Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to Prisoner on Confrontation Clause and Ineffective Assistance Claims Based on Trial Court Reading Entire Criminal Information Into the Record of Co-Conspirator Who Pleaded Guilty, Feb. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Exculpatory No Doctrine, Confrontation Clause/Rights, Witnesses - Prior Statements/Testimony, Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Habeas Relief in ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Case, Feb. 1, 2025. junk science, Habeas Corpus, Forensic Sciences, Child Abuse/Abusers, Evidence - Admissibility.
• California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss, Jan. 15, 2025. Settlements, Habeas Corpus, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Relief Where Both Trial and Appellate Counsel Provided Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Challenge Indictment for Residential Burglary That Failed to Allege Defendant Illegally Entered a ‘Dwelling’, Jan. 15, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Constitutional Challenges/Law.
• Ninth Circuit Holds District Courts Have No Authority Under Rule 4 of Rules Governing § 2254 Cases to Dismiss Habeas Petition on the Merits, Dec. 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Dismissal, Authority and Jurisdiction.
• Ninth Circuit Grants Habeas Relief to California Prisoner on Napue Claim Because Prosecution Failed to Correct Informant’s False Testimony That He Did Not Receive Any Benefit In Exchange for His Testimony, Dec. 1, 2024. Informants, Habeas Corpus, Informants and Paid Witnesses, False Testimony.
• Public Defender Files Habeas Petitions for Detainees at “Horrific” Baltimore Lockup, Nov. 15, 2024. Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement, Hygiene Supplies, Disclosure of Records, Habeas Corpus.
• Ninth Circuit Denies Habeas Relief to Prisoner Who Invoked Fifth Amendment Right to Counsel During Custodial Interrogation but Made Incriminating Statements to Undercover Informant Posing as Fellow Prisoner Because Right to Counsel Not Violated, Nov. 1, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Custodial Interrogations/Statements, Counsel - Right to.
• Georgia Supreme Court Grants Habeas Where Defense Counsel Failed to Understand State Self-Defense Statute Provides Complete Defense to Felony Murder Based on Felon-in-Possession Charge, Oct. 1, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Felon in Possession Statute, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Murder/Felony Murder.
• Third Circuit Orders Evidentiary Hearing on State Prisoner’s Petition Seeking Federal Habeas Relief Because Both State and Federal Courts Denied Relief Without Holding Hearing on IAC Claim That, if Proven, Would Entitle Him to Relief, Aug. 1, 2024. Evidentiary Ruling, Habeas Corpus, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Counsel - Effective Assistance of.