More from this issue:

1. Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories, by Brandon Sample
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Allegations of Contraband Smuggling, Sex and Corruption at Texas Prison, by Matthew Clarke
4. Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation, by Jordan Flaherty
5. U.S. Homeland Security Illegally Drugged Immigrants for Deportation, by Gary Hunter
6. Connecticut DOC Settles Prisoner’s Brutal Beating By Ten Guards For $500,000
7. Multiple Incidents Indicate Florida Jail Has Culture of Abuse
8. Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication, by David Reutter
9. Welcome to Fun Day: Crime and Punishment in the United States, by Marie Gottschalk
10. Cook County Jail Conditions Unconstitutional, Charges Department of Justice, by David Reutter
11. CMS Fails to Treat MRSA Infection; Florida Jail Prisoner Dies
12. Oregon Juvenile Facility Warden Indicted; Youth Authority Director Resigns, by Mark Wilson
13. Violence and Corruption at Rikers Island; Called a “Battle Camp for Kids”, by David Reutter
14. Former PHS Doctor Arrested on Drug Charges
15. Prison Health and Self-Care: MRSA, by Michael D. Cohen, MD
16. Cold Case Hits Use Vastly Exaggerated DNA “Match” Statistics; Upheld by California Supreme Court, by Matthew Clarke
17. $885,437.24 Award for CMS Massachusetts Jail Nurse Barred for Reporting Prisoner Abuse
18. 115,000 Florida Ex-Felons Have Civil Rights Restored Under New Rules
19. Texas Prison Guard Files False Report, Faces 20 Years, by Gary Hunter
20. Los Angeles County Settles For $900,000 After Unattended Prisoner Savagely Beaten By Violent Jail Gang
21. Texas Prisoners Pay Parole Consultants Hefty Fees
22. TASER Avoids Liability in Three Deaths by Suing Medical Examiner, by John Dannenberg
23. $3,540,402.22 Jury Award In California Wrongful Conviction Case
24. PR Bonds Plummet in Harris County, Texas as Jail Overflows, by Gary Hunter
25. Nurse Pleads Guilty in Death of Florida Juvenile Prisoner
26. Ohio Court Finds Three-Drug Execution Protocol Violates Prisoners’ State Rights
27. Florida Prison Employees Awarded $630,000 for Subjection to Prisoner “Gunners”
28. Demonstrators Supporting Guantanamo Prisoners in Front of U.S. Supreme Court Found Guilty of Unlawful Assembly
29. $170,000 Jury Verdict in Sacramento Jail Beating
30. Costs for San Quentin’s Proposed New Death Row Spiral Upward, by John Dannenberg
31. Washington State’s Criminal Libel Statute Held Unconstitutional; Prisoner Disciplinary Conviction Vacated, by John Dannenberg
32. Florida Sheriff Sued for Awarding No-Bid Health Care Contract, Receiving Gifts
33. Civil Commitment Provisions of Adam Walsh Act Held Unconstitutional
34. PHS Receives Three-Year $366 Million Rikers Island Medical Care Contract Renewal Despite Non-Performance Fines for Last Three Years, by John Dannenberg
35. Washington Jail Remodel Violated State Law, at a Cost of $51.6 million, by Mark Wilson
36. Michigan Escape is Not “Violent Felony” for ACCA Purposes
37. Jail Nurse Guilty of Forging Doctor’s Order; Forged Orders Common Jail Practice, by Mark Wilson
38. $7 Million in Settlements in Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Death from Medical Negligence, by David Reutter
39. Ohio Jail Guard’s Excessive Force Conviction Affirmed
40. $1,100,000 Settlement in Juvenile Prisoner Suicide in Union County, New Jersey
41. Will California’s $11 Billion Prison Outlay Survive State Budget Cuts?, by Marvin Mentor
42. Second Circuit Recognizes Attorney-Client Privilege in Prisoner’s Journal in Prosecution of Rapist Guard
43. Rape of Child by Former Washington DOC Director’s Son Spawns Departmental Crisis, by John Dannenberg
44. Ex-Con Exposed – Had Posed as a Lawyer, by John Dannenberg
45. $5 Million Settlement For Illegal Strip Searches In Las Cruces, NM Jail
46. New Jersey Court Enters Preliminary Injunction Barring Women Prisoners at Men’s Prison
47. PEW Report: 1 in 99 Adult Americans Behind Bars In 2007, by John Dannenberg
48. Maryland DOC Pays $500,000 for Detainee Beaten to Death By Guards
49. $7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk
50. Georgia Sheriff Must Give Revenue from Prisoner Phone Calls to County, by David Reutter
51. Beleaguered Oregon Sheriff Steps Down, by Mark Wilson
52. Violence at Oklahoma Prisons Leaves Two Dead, Twenty-Five Injured, by Matthew Clarke
53. News in Brief:
54. Sixth Circuit Now Permits § 1983 Complaint to Proceed Even If Prisoner Did Not Initially Plead Exhaustion Below

More from these topics:

• Two Mississippi Prisoners Escape in One Month, Feb. 15, 2025. Escapes.
• Charges Dismissed Against Connecticut Guards Who Assaulted Prisoner, Feb. 15, 2025. Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Dismissal, Social Media, Acquitted Conduct/Uncharged Crimes/Dismissed Counts.
• Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff, Feb. 15, 2025. Guard Brutality/Beatings, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Sentences - Adjustments and Departures, Offense of Conviction.
• The Murky Waters of Parole, Feb. 1, 2025. Parole/Probation Searches, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Parole Liability, Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
• Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires, Jan. 15, 2025. Parole/Probation Searches, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Resentencing, Revocation Proceedings, Overreaching.
• After Florida Appellate Court Holds Crimes of ‘Attempt’ Eligible for Incentive Gain Time, Supreme Court Refuses Review, Jan. 15, 2025. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Conspiracies, Attempts, Solicitations, Attempts/Incomplete Acts, Credits, Sentences - Adjustments and Departures.
• Seventh Circuit Announces Maximum Revocation Sentence for Violation of Supervised Release Based on Classification of Underlying Offense at Time of Conviction, Not at Time of Revocation, Dec. 15, 2024. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Revocation Proceedings.
• California Supreme Court Announces Retroactivity of 2022 Version of Penal Code § 1170 to Upper-Term Sentences Imposed Before Its Enactment, Dec. 15, 2024. Retroactivity, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
• Eleventh Circuit Announces Defendant Must Know Leaving Residential Facility Without Permission Is ‘Unlawful’ for Escape Conviction Under 28 U.S.C. § 4082(a), Dec. 15, 2024. Escapes, Release and Reentry, Constructive/Imputed/Presumed knowledge.
• First Circuit Holds Government Breached Plea Agreement by Implicitly Arguing for Upward Variant Sentence by Including Pictures and Video of Defendant That Allegedly Depict His Criminal Tendencies in Sentencing Memo, Dec. 15, 2024. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Grounds for Variance, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas, Grounds.