More from this issue:

1. Alaska’s Prison System: Dangerous, Deadly Yet Repeating Past Mistakes, by David Reutter
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months
4. North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council
5. Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial
6. Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup
7. Seventh Kentucky Guard Sentenced for Restrained Prisoner’s Beat-down
8. “Botched” and “Ill-Conceived”: BOP Slammed for Plan to Close California Lockup Known as “Rape Club”
9. Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, by Douglas Ankney
10. Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again
11. “You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults
12. In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors, by Douglas Ankney
13. Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Sham Accreditations, by Matthew Clarke
14. BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate
15. Cleveland Jail Warden Dismissed After Asking for More Reentry Assistance for Detainees
16. Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
17. Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels
18. Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death, by David Reutter
19. Ninth Circuit: Alleged Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment to Federal Prisoner in Washington Presents Valid Bivens Claim, by David Reutter
20. Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors
21. Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free
22. Decoding Recidivism: Unraveling Its Complex Metrics and Real Impact
23. Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation
24. Hope Against Hope, by Daryl Waters
25. Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations
26. “You Are Not Above the Law”: Former Indiana Sheriff Jailed for Contempt of Court
27. $15,000 Net Award for Georgia Prisoner’s Delayed Hep-C Treatment, by David Reutter
28. West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food
29. CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail, by David Reutter
30. $500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail
31. Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets, by David Reutter
32. Warden, Eight Employees Arrested After Four Deaths at Wisconsin Prison in Eight Months
33. Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners
34. Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault, by David Reutter
35. Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation
36. Illinois Prisoner Awarded Over $822,000 For Hernia Care Denied by Wexford Health, by Douglas Ankney
37. Minnesota Jailers Shrug Off Detainee’s Agony from Fatal Perforated Bowel as Withdrawal Symptoms
38. Hearing-Impaired Massachusetts Prisoners Win ADA Case
39. Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills
40. Federal Sentencing Guidelines Place Heavy Burden on Incarcerated Victims of Sexual Assaults, by David Reutter
41. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Slows the Hand That State DOC Sticks Into Prisoners’ Pockets, by David Reutter
42. Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Retaliation Claim By Federal Prisoner Against Guard in Illinois Lockup Who Saw Grievance Against Him, by Matthew Clarke
43. $8.9 Million Settlement Reached for N.Y. Prisoner’s Death Following Guards’ Baton Beating, by David Reutter
44. Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail
45. Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions, by David Reutter
46. Eighth Circuit Largely Restores Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guards in Use of Force on Bipolar Prisoner, by David Reutter
47. Maryland Prisoner Prevails in Challenge to Denial of Public Records Requests
48. $2 Million Settlement in Death of Mentally Disabled Detainee Stripped of Anti-Seizure Device at Colorado Jail, by David Reutter
49. Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured
50. Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles
51. Ohio Supreme Court Says Prisoner’s ‘Kite’ Is Public Record, But Denies Damages for Withholding It, by Matthew Clarke
52. $56.7 Million Awarded to “Harlem Park Three,” Exonerated of Baltimore Murder After 36 Years in Prison, by David Reutter
53. Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer, by Douglas Ankney
54. Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group, by David Reutter
55. $4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail, by David Reutter
56. Transgender Maryland Prisoner’s Suit Accuses Guard of Shower Rape
57. Two Prisoners Removed from Texas Death Row Due to Intellectual Disability, by David Reutter
58. News in Brief

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Community Supervision: America’s Hidden Wellspring to Mass Incarceration, Feb. 15, 2025
• Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults, Feb. 15, 2025
• Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum, Feb. 15, 2025
• Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts, Feb. 15, 2025
• California Court of Appeal: Evidence Insufficient to Show Robbery Victim Moved ‘Substantial Distance’ to Support Simple Kidnapping Conviction and Amendments to § 186.22 Require Vacatur of Gang Enhancements, Feb. 15, 2025
• Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed, Feb. 15, 2025
• Fourth Circuit Reinstates North Carolina Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Claim Against Guard in Stabbing, Feb. 15, 2025
• Minnesota Supreme Court Announces No Duty to Retreat When Using Reasonable Force in Defense of Another and Provides Framework for Analyzing Such Claims, Feb. 1, 2025
• NIJ Partners With Doctor to Develop Better Screening Method to Detect and Identify Drugs Postmortem, Jan. 15, 2025
• Fines and Fees Destroy the Impoverished and Perpetuate Mass Incarceration, Jan. 15, 2025

More from these topics:

• New York Prison Officials Found Routinely Violating HALT Act With Overuse of Solitary Confinement, Feb. 15, 2025. Disciplinary Hearings, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
• Arizona To Resume Executions, Feb. 15, 2025. Death Row, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• Tennessee Finalizes New One-Drug Execution Protocol, Feb. 15, 2025. Death Penalty/Death Row, Drugs - Determination of, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• Indiana Resumes Executions, Feb. 15, 2025. Death Penalty/Death Row, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• Texas Executioners Playing Fast and Furious to Obtain Lethal Drugs, Jan. 15, 2025. Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• With Eleventh Circuit Okay, Alabama Executes Third Prisoner by Nitrogen Hypoxia, Jan. 15, 2025. Death Penalty/Death Row, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
• Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Federal Prisoners on Death Row, Jan. 15, 2025. Alternative Sentencing, Death Penalty/Death Row, Resentencing.
• Alabama Shrouds Executioners in Secrecy, Dec. 15, 2024. Death Penalty/Death Row, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• San Quentin Brings in Hollywood, Moves Out California Death Row Prisoners, Dec. 15, 2024. Death Penalty/Death Row, Media.
• SCOTUS Stays Texas Execution With 20 Minutes to Spare, Nov. 15, 2024. DNA Testing/Samples, Death Penalty/Death Row, Stays, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.