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Abstract: 

In addition to the articles listed in the contents above, this issue also includes briefer summarizes of recent judicial findings related to Insanity Acquittee Registration as a Sex Offender (State v. Cook); the “Plain Error Rule” on Conditions (U.S. v. Mendoza-Velasquez); Gay Inmates (White v. Hodge); Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies (Weiss v. Barribeau); Negligent Release (Oddo v. Queens Vil. Comm. for Mental Health for Jamaica Community Adolescent Program, Inc); Failure to Protect Claims (Aruanno v. Johnson); Assurance of Needed Medical Care before confinement (U.S.A. v. Rothbard); and several cases involving challenges to the mental health care provided by the Illinois state prison system.

Keywords: Vitek v. Jones; Qualified Immunity; Involuntary Medication; Jail Suicide; Monell; Private Prisons; Sexually Violent Predator Commitments; Plain Error Rule; Failure to Protect Claims; Negligent Release

Affiliations:  1: Editor.