More from this issue:

1. Aramark: Prison Food for Thought
2. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
3. Southern California Jail Guard Arrested With 104 Pounds of Fentanyl
4. Families of New Jersey Jail Suicide Victims Still Waiting for Settlement Payouts
5. $500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days, by David Reutter
6. These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years, by Victoria Law
7. Six Deaths in Just Over Six Months at Alabama Jail
8. Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide, by Douglas Ankney
9. Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month, by Douglas Ankney
10. Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower
11. Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration
12. $32,000 Settlement for Failure to Provide Insulin to Diabetic Wisconsin Prisoner
13. $7,500 Settlement Reached After Georgia Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment
14. Autistic Detainee’s Death in Pittsburgh Jail Blamed on “Culture” That Left Him “Punished Instead of Treated”
15. $6,500 Paid to Illinois Prisoner After Denied Records Request
16. HIV and Incarcerated People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Douglas Ankney
17. Two West Virginia Jail Guards Plead Guilty in Detainee Death, Six More Charged
18. $125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing, by David Reutter
19. Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged
20. Class-Action Challenge to Medical Care at Tennessee Jail Results in $3.8 Million Settlement
21. Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed
22. Eighth Circuit Says Lower Court “Tilted the Scales Too Far” for Jailers in Missouri Detainee’s Fatal Overdose, by David Reutter
23. Arizona Sheriff Accused of Misusing Detainee Funds to Buy Guns, Ammo
24. Three Texas Prison Guards Among 13 Charged in Sprawling Smuggling Scheme
25. Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths, by Matthew Clarke
26. Washington Superior Court Says Jail Cannot Bill Poor Detainees for Medical Care
27. Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape, by Matthew Clarke
28. Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath
29. Ninth Circuit Refunds Filing Fee to “Struck-Out” California Prisoner Denied Indigent Status Under PLRA, by Matthew Clarke
30. Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee
31. Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption?, by Douglas Ankney
32. The Graying of American Prisons
33. Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth, by Douglas Ankney
34. $10 Million Reimbursed for Vacated Washington Drug Possession Convictions, by David Reutter
35. “Third Time Is Not the Charm” For Texas Jailers Barred by PLRA from Enforcing Prior Settlement Agreement Against Prisoner in New Suit, by Matthew Clarke
36. Migrants at New Mexico CoreCivic ICE Detention Center Forced to Clean Up Sewage with Bare Hands, by Douglas Ankney
37. Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up, by David Reutter
38. FTC Orders GTL/ViaPath to Help 650,000 Customers Whose Info Was Stolen, Posted on Dark Web, by Douglas Ankney
39. Three-Year Sentence for One of Four BOP Employees Charged With Ignoring Fatally Ill Federal Prisoner in Virginia
40. “There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee, by Edward Lyon
41. Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste, by David Reutter
42. Qualified Immunity Denied to Former New Mexico Warden in Prisoner’s Sexual Abuse Claim
43. HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case
44. Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired
45. San Diego Jury Deadlocks on Charges Against Jail Doctor in Detainee’s Death, Nurse Acquitted
46. BOP Guards Plead Guilty in Smuggling Ring at Closed Manhattan Lockup
47. Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, by Douglas Ankney
48. Virginia Supreme Court Denies New Sentence Credits to State Prisoner Serving “Mixed” Sentence, by Douglas Ankney
49. Ohio Supreme Court Orders Records Produced for State Prisoner, by David Reutter
50. Massachusetts Makes Calls Free From Prisons and Jails
51. $25.2 Million Settlement for Two Connecticut Prisoners Exonerated After 35 Years, by David Reutter
52. Seventh Circuit Lets Illinois Prisoner Proceed In Forma Pauperis, Despite Trust Account Balance Exceeding Filing Fee, by Douglas Ankney
53. Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform
54. BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas
55. Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits, by David Reutter
56. BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown
57. $15,000 to Virginia Prisoner Mauled by DOC K-9, by Matthew Clarke
58. California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers
59. “Sugar Daddy” Pennsylvania Constable Accused of Recruiting “Sugar Babies” at Jail
60. West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy, by David Reutter
61. North Carolinian Left in Jail Awaiting Trial for 11 Years
62. Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars
63. Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail, by David Reutter
64. Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died, by David Reutter
65. News in Brief

More from Douglas Ankney:

• Tenth Circuit Announces Assault Conviction Under 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(6) Not a Qualifying Predicate ‘Crime of Violence’ for Purposes of USSG § 2K2.1(a)(3), July 15, 2024
• Ohio Supreme Court Announces Same Postconviction-Relief Filing Deadline Applies to ‘Delayed Appeal’ as Applies to Any Other Type of Direct Appeal, July 15, 2024
• New NIJ-Funded Website Assists Forensic Practitioners Estimate Age of Unidentified Skeletal Remains of Infants and Teens Based on Dental Data, July 15, 2024
• Minnesota Supreme Court Announces Good-Faith Exception to Exclusionary Rule Under State Constitution Does Not Apply to Search and Arrest Based on Quashed Warrant That Appears Active Due to Clerical Error by Court Administration, July 15, 2024
• California Court of Appeal Announces Rulings on Three Issues of First Impression Involving Certificate of Appealability and Habeas Petition, July 15, 2024
• Tennessee Supreme Court Announces Prospective Abrogation of Common Law Accomplice-Corroboration Rule, July 15, 2024
• Prosecutors Receive Absurdly Lenient Sentence of Probation for Brady Violation That Resulted in an Innocent Man Spending More Than Four Years in Prison, July 15, 2024
• Rethink Googling That Video of Big Bird Teaching Your Child the Letter ‘B’—You Might Be Caught in a Federal Dragnet, July 15, 2024
• Eleventh Circuit Reverses District Court’s Grant of Habeas Relief, Notes It’s ‘Murky on When Putting Two Suspects in a Room Together Qualifies as Interrogation Under Miranda’, July 15, 2024
• Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out, July 1, 2024

More from these topics:

• Fourth Circuit Reinstates HRDC’s RICO Claim Against Securus and ViaPath, May 1, 2024. RICO, Telephone Rates, Civil RICO, HRDC Litigation, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Minnesota Makes All Calls Free in Prisons and Jails, Nov. 15, 2023. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Family, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• FCC Granted Broader Authority to Regulate Prisoner Call Costs, July 15, 2023. Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Telecoms Exploiting Legal Loopholes to Price Gouge Prisoners and Their Families, May 1, 2023. Telephone Rates, Private Phone Contractors, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• GTL Ordered to Pay $18.675 Million in Attorney Fees and Costs in Prison Phone Class Action, March 1, 2023. Class Actions, Private Phone Contractors, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• California Court Sides With Securus in Challenge to CDCR Contract, Dealing Only Temporary Setback to GTL, Sept. 1, 2022. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Prison Gaming and AR/VR Services, Aug. 1, 2022. Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Prisoner Media, Police State-Surveillance, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Mission Creep: Prison Telecoms Scramble to Extend Their Reach, July 13, 2022. Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• Prison Phone Giant GTL Cuts Prices in Miami-Dade Jails, But Only After County Taps COVID-19 Relief Funds to Replace Forfeited Kickbacks, June 1, 2022. COVID-19, Telephone Rates, Global Tel*Link Corp.
• HRDC Sues New Hampshire Jail over Publications Banned under No-Hard-Copy Mail Policy, April 8, 2022. Mail Regulations, PLN Litigation, Global Tel*Link Corp.