More from this issue:

1. Alaska’s Prison System: Dangerous, Deadly Yet Repeating Past Mistakes, by David Reutter
2. North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council
3. Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial
4. Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, by Douglas Ankney
5. Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again
6. “You Just Broke My Neck”: Ohio Detainee Sues Jail Where Guards Are Accused of Multiple Assaults
7. In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors, by Douglas Ankney
8. BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate
9. Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration
10. Cleveland Jail Warden Dismissed After Asking for More Reentry Assistance for Detainees
11. Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania Jail Guards and PrimeCare in Detainee’s Overdose Death, by David Reutter
12. Ninth Circuit: Alleged Denial of Hepatitis C Treatment to Federal Prisoner in Washington Presents Valid Bivens Claim, by David Reutter
13. Washington, Virginia Advance Bills to Make Prison Calls Free
14. Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors
15. Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation
16. Hope Against Hope, by Daryl Waters
17. “You Are Not Above the Law”: Former Indiana Sheriff Jailed for Contempt of Court
18. Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners
19. Colorado Jail Guard Must Stand Trial for Opening Accused Sex Offender’s Cell, Subjecting Him to Assault, by David Reutter
20. Wrongfully Convicted Michigan Prisoners Wait for Compensation
21. Minnesota Jailers Shrug Off Detainee’s Agony from Fatal Perforated Bowel as Withdrawal Symptoms
22. Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills
23. Mentally Ill Detainee Allegedly Tasered and Starved to Death At South Carolina Jail
24. Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions, by David Reutter
25. Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles
26. Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured
27. Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim That Guards Got Him Kicked Out of Religious Group, by David Reutter

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, July 1, 2024
• In New Jersey, Yet More Privileged Phone Calls Between Prisoners and Attorneys Recorded and Used by Prosecutors, July 1, 2024
• California Supreme Court: Defendant Has Due Process Right to Notice of Prosecution’s Election to Seek Enhanced Sentence in Order to Make Key Decisions About Defense, June 15, 2024
• Kansas Supreme Court Announces Clarification of Framework for Deciding Whether Confession Is Voluntary and Overrules Precedents That Held Reliability of Confession Is Factor to Be Considered, June 15, 2024
• Decedent’s End-of-Life Condition and Toxicology May Alter Time-of-Death Estimation, June 15, 2024
• Fourth Circuit Vacates Where Instructions Failed to Inform Jury That Mens Rea of ‘Knowingly or Intentionally’ Applies to ‘Except as Authorized’ in 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), June 15, 2024
• Third Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Claim of Absolute Immunity Where Wrongfully Convicted Man’s Complaint Alleged Facts Sufficient to Support Finding That Prosecutor’s Actions Served ‘Investigatory Function’, June 15, 2024
• Delaware Supreme Court: Warrant That Authorized Search of ‘Any and All’ Data of Named Files on Cellphone Is Invalid General Warrant That Also Failed to Include Temporal Limitation, June 15, 2024
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Trial Court’s Exclusion of Expert Testimony on iPhone’s Frequent Location History Data as Not Sufficiently Reliable Under Daubert-Lanigan Standard, June 15, 2024
• Bluetooth Surveillance Tool Added to List of Known Cache of DHS’ Surveillance Technology, June 15, 2024

More from these topics:

• Colorado Supreme Court Announces Parole Board Not Statutorily Required to Consider ‘Demonstrated Maturity and Rehabilitation’ When Deciding Whether to Release Sex Offenders Who Received Adult Sentences for Crimes Committed as Juveniles, June 15, 2024. Life without Parole (LWOP), Certification, Juvenile Offenses/Offenders, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Release Decisions.
• Executions Rise in 2023, Number on Death Row Falls, June 1, 2024. Criminal Prosecution, Statistics/Trends, Death Penalty, Death Row.
• Atheist Chaplain Attends Atheist Oklahoma Prisoner During Execution, June 1, 2024. Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, Clergy.
• Botched Idaho Execution Halted, June 1, 2024. Death Penalty, Lethal Injection Method of Execution.
• His Appeal Lost for 28 Years, Texas Prisoner Finally Off Death Row, June 1, 2024. Death Penalty, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Appeals/Appellate Jurisdiction.
• Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth, May 1, 2024. Commentary/Reviews, Criminal Prosecution, Statistics/Trends, Death Penalty.
• Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute, April 1, 2024. Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Mental Health Experts, Post Ake v. Oklahoma, Judgment - Modification of.
• With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole, April 1, 2024. Life without Parole (LWOP), Death Penalty/Death Row.
• Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard, March 1, 2024. Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Injunctions, RLUIPA, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Right to Grow a Beard.
• Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution, March 1, 2024. Death Penalty, Death Row, Method of Execution.