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Prisoners’ Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada, 3rd Edition, by Jon Marc Taylor and Susan Schwartzkopf


Texas Court of Appeals Upholds $42.5 Million Award 
Against Wackenhut / GEO Group

Lawsuits Challenge Prohibition on Prisoner Pen-Pal 
Services in Indiana, Florida

Washington DOC Pays Pro Se Prisoner $110,043 
For Illegally Withholding Records

Michigan Sex Offender Freezes 
to Death on Street As 
Housing Crisis Continues

Massachusetts DOC Settles PLN Censorship Suit

South Dakota Jail Prisoner Awarded 
$1.1 Million for Rape by Guard

Eighth Circuit: Missouri Prisoner Has Right to Elective Abortion

McNeil Island Prison Fined $28,400 for Improper Asbestos Removal

OIG Audit Finds Major Deficiencies 
with BOP Health Care

Cost of Defending Federal Death Penalty Cases on the Rise

$1.4 Million Settlement in Three-Day Long Sexual 
Assaults of Alaska Prisoners

As Economy Falters, Rehabilitative and 
Substance Abuse Programs Get the Axe

Michigan Jail Officials Lied and Hid Documents 
in Lawsuit Over Prisoner’s Death

First Circuit Awards Defendant Costs 
Under FRCP 68; Plaintiff Rejected 
$10,000 Offer, Was Awarded $5,500

Racial Impact Statements: 
An Effort to Eliminate Legal Racism

Florida Judge Publicly Reprimanded for Trying to Ease Jail Overcrowding

Florida U.S. District Court Rescinds Policy 
Restricting Access to Plea Agreements

Oregon Detainee Paid $30,000 for 
90 Days Illegal Jail Confinement

Ninth Circuit Flip-Flops: Denial of Washington Sex Offender’s Community Custody Release Held Unconstitutional, Then Constitutional

Texas Posthumously Exonerates Man Who Died in Prison