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Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, 4th Edition, by John Boston and Daniel Manville, Oxford University Press, 960 Pages, $39.95

Prosecutorial Misconduct Case Pending Before Supreme Court Settles for $12 Million

California: Audit Finds CDCR Overpaid Employees Who Supervise Prisoner-Workers

$140,000 Settlement in Washington Jail Detainee’s Suicide

North Carolina Innocence Commission Verifies Wrongful Conviction

Problems Persist at Privately-Operated Rhode Island Jail

U.S. Department of Justice Releases 2008 Capital Punishment Statistics

ICE Policies and U.S. Deportation Laws Violate Human Rights

“Back to School” is a Guide to Success Following Release from Prison

New Jersey’s Riverfront Prison Demolished

U.S. State Prison Population Declines for First Time in a Decade

Washington DOC Pays $3,275,000 to Family of Deputy Killed by Former Prisoner

DOJ Investigation into New York Jail Finds Unconstitutional Conditions

Prisoner’s Homicide at Maryland Jail Not Prosecuted

$500,000 Settlement in Maryland Prisoner’s Death from Pepper Spraying

Aryan Warriors Prison Gang Prosecuted in Nevada

Obama’s 2011 Budget Calls for More Prisons, More Guards

Exorbitant Prisoner Phone Rates Pass New York Constitutional Scrutiny

Texas Youth Commission Pays $625,000 to Settle Abuse Suit

Incomplete DNA Databases Result in Tragic Consequences

$4.3 Million Award in Preventable Death of Cook County Pretrial Detainee

Controversy Over Texas Attorneys Charging Questionable Fees in Wrongful Conviction Cases

U.S. Supreme Court: Counsel Must Advise Immigrant Defendants of Deportation Risks

Wheelchair-bound Texas Escapee Produces Pistol, Commandeers Transport Van

Prison-based Call Centers Open in Austria, India

New Picture on Violence in Federal Prisons

California Official Resigns from State Post, Hired by Federal Receiver