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Joe Exotic the Tiger King acquaintance tells a true story of torture and the horror of prison

My name is J.C. Overstreet. My Federal ID # is 12744-042. My e-mail address is ejjcoverstreet@gmail.com. These few pages contain only a...

First Step Act and CARES Act

Federal Legal News, April 3, 2023 The United States Sentencing Commission is set to adopt rules this Wednesday that vastly expand the...

GAO Puts BOP on Critical List

LISA newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 17, April 24, 2023 The Government Accounting Office last week added the BOP to its "high risk" list of...

Dept. of Meaningless Celebrations

LISA newsletters, Vol. 9, No. 17 (April 24, 2023) In honor of President Biden's March 31 proclamation marking April as Second Chance...

Deja Vu All Over Again

April 24, 2023, LISA newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 17 Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen....

Eighth Circuit Holds Arkansas Jailers Entitled to Qualified Immunity in Prisoners’ Suit Over Mold

Loaded on DEC. 1, 2021 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, page by Matt Clarke The U.S. Court of Appeals for...

Massachusetts Prisons Pledge to End Solitary

Loaded on DEC. 1, 2021 by Jayson Hawkins published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, page 49 The Massachusetts Department of...

Too Many In-Custody Deaths of BOP Prisoners are Unnecessary and Preventable

Loaded on DEC. 1, 2021 by Casey Bastian published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, page 44Filed under: Compassionate Release....

Federal Prisons’ Switch to Scanning Mail Is a Surveillance Nightmare

Published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, The Bureau of Prisons has piloted a program that can give authorities “huge secret...

Seven Ohio Guards Fired After Killing Prisoner, No Criminal Charges

On January 26, 2021, 55-year-old Michael McDaniel entered the Corrections Reception Center in Orient, Pickaway County, Ohio, to serve a...