Parker Quinlan, Law360

The Third Circuit ordered a lower court to accept an incarcerated man's amended Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against a Pennsylvania prison that he says denied him proper medical treatment when a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed in his cell.

Editorial Board, The Times-Picayune

During Louisiana’s sweltering summer months, everyone seeks respite from the blistering sun in any way they can… Yet, until recently, inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola were expected to work harvesting corn, okra and other crops in the prison’s fields with few protections, even as temperatures reached into the 90s. 

Bernard Smith, The Lens

For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the sweltering Louisiana heat.

Andrea Gallo, NOLA.com

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high temperatures, rebuking a new state policy that raised the temperature necessary for inmates to receive such measures.

Nick Chrastil, The Lens

Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, lawyers contend.

KPFA, Law & Disorder with Cat Brooks

We have been following the scandal and abuse at the now shuttered women’s federal prison in Dublin, California. The First Report by the Special Master is out, which mostly corroborates what the women have been saying for years, but also contains some additional troubling information.

Estelle Masse, Davis Vanguard

DUBLIN, CA – In a new report made public Friday by federal district court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an FCI Dublin Special Master and Prison Conditions expert found, “It is unconscionable that any correctional agency could allow incarcerated individuals to be subject to the conditions that existed at FCI Dublin” for so long without correction.

Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News

DUBLIN — A blistering report found an “unconscionable” pattern of derelict care and oversight at the FCI Dublin federal women’s prison and raised the alarm that similar problems may be plaguing other federal prisons across the nation.

Katie DeBenedetti, KQED

Documents ordered unsealed on Friday by a federal judge included a special master’s report that detailed systemic abuse and inadequate medical and mental health care at the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin.

Lisa Fernandez, KTVU

OAKLAND, Calif. - A federal judge on Friday slammed lawyers for the Bureau of Prisons for trying to dismiss a lawsuit over sexual abuse and retaliation at the now-shuttered FCI Dublin, while she also grilled the deputy director of the federal prison system, who flew in from Washington, D.C., to Oakland for the hearing.