More from this issue:

1. Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails
2. Private Prisons Bilk $13 million From Florida; State Awards More Contracts, by David Reutter
3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
4. 8th Circuit Invalidates BOP Halfway House Policy; 7th Circuit Says Challenge Not Cognizable on Habeas
5. Private Prison Contractor Who Allegedly Diverted $1.6 Million in Telephone Revenues Sues California DOC
6. Florida Prisoner's Disciplinary Challenges Reversed for Further Proceedings
7. BOP's Failure to Provide Adequate Medical Treatment Nets Downward Departure Sentence
8. Seventh Circuit Reverses Judgment on Denial of Methadone
9. Second Circuit Upholds Guard's Rape Sentence Under Federal Guidelines
10. Washington DOC Must Ship Prisoners' Property For Free
11. Maryland's PHS Prison Health Care Under Fire, New System Implemented
12. 2005 Audit of California Parole Board Reveals Ongoing Deficiencies
13. Habeas Hints: How to Get DNA Testing, by Kent Russell
14. Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda, Pace University Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring 2
15. Arkansas Considers Prison Rape Law, Problems Evident
16. Florida's Privatization of Prisoner Canteen Services Under Scrutiny
17. Oregon Criminalizes Sex with Prisoners; & Other Legislative Developments
18. If the Shoe Fits: Did Colorado Prison Officials Look the Other Way While a Guard's Fetish Turned Vio, by Alan Pendergast
19. New York Prisoner Attacked On Bus Awarded $600,000
20. Whistleblowers Nail Cheating California Corrections Employees
21. Florida DOC's No Bid Pharmaceutical Contract Scrutinized and Criticized
22. Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement
23. Chicago Settles Another Jail Brutality Suit for $362,500
24. Federal District Court Awards Missouri Prisoner $2,500 For Excessive Force
25. Nebraska Native American Prisoners' Religious Program Reinstated, by John Dannenberg
26. All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
27. California and Connecticut Reinstate Jobs of Fired Guards
28. Court Halts Practice of California Prison Guards Getting Unlimited Paid Time to Conduct Union Busine
29. Kentucky Prisoner Injured In Transport Vehicle Awarded $9,000
30. Florida Jury Awards $225,000 in False Arrest/Malicious Prosecution Claim
31. American Bar Association Recommends Expanded Prisoner Telephone Access
32. U.S. Supreme Court: Faretta Does Not Establish Right Of Pro Se Defendant to Law Library Access
33. Massachusetts Prisoner Awarded $250,000 for Assault During Strip Search
34. Shackling of Women Prisoners During Labor and Delivery Ended In California
35. Poor Substance Abusers Imprisoned En Masse Without Treatment, by Michael Rigby
36. Prisoners Labor at Wisconsin Wal-Mart Site
37. Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000
38. Georgia DOC Settles Failure-To-Protect Suit for $15,000, by Michael Rigby
39. Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract
40. NY State Prisoner Receives $400,000 Liver Transplant
41. Registered Sex Offenders Murdered By Vigilante in Washington
42. New York Prisoner Awarded $2,500 for Delayed Eyeglasses
43. News in Brief
44. Low Pay Drives Tennessee Guards to Smuggle Drugs, Contraband into Prisons

More from these topics:

• Sixth Circuit Holds Dismissal Not Automatic When Plaintiff Simultaneously Files Same Claims in State Court, Aug. 1, 2025. Retaliation, Court Access, Grievances, Mail.
• On Remand, Eleventh Circuit Clarifies, Affirms Grant 
of Habeas Relief to Death Row Prisoner, Aug. 1, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty, Death Row.
• Fifth Circuit Announces When Initial § 2255 Petition Not Decided on Merits and Appeals Court Later Recalls Mandate Dismissing Direct Appeal and Affirms Conviction, Subsequent § 2255 Petition Not ‘Second or Successive’ Under AEDPA, Aug. 1, 2025. Habeas Corpus, AEDPA.
• Fourth Circuit Announces Counterman v. Colorado 
Is New Rule of Constitutional Law That Applies 
Retroactively to Cases on Collateral Review and 
Grants Authorization to File Successive § 2255 Motion, July 1, 2025. Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Habeas Corpus, Threats.
• Arguing Successful Federal Habeas Corpus Claims, June 1, 2025. Habeas Corpus, Sixth Amendment, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
• Ninth Circuit Grants Stay and Abeyance of Federal Habeas Petition to Allow Petitioner to Exhaust State Remedies, April 15, 2025. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Habeas Corpus, AEDPA, Amendments to Petition.
• 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.