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• Boston Marathon bomber sues over ballcap, showers in prison

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  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said his treatment at the supermax Federal Correctional Complex Florence is contributing to his "mental and physical decline"

• Lawsuit alleges 5 women sexually assaulted by jail chaplain, commander

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  The suit accuses the sheriff of doing too little to address repeated concerns about jail conditions and the mistreatment of inmates

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• Ohio county faces 27 lawsuits over jail misconduct, $1.35 million paid so far

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  Thirteen inmates have died in Cuyahoga County jails since June 2018

• Judge: Ore. officials not shielded from liability over prison outbreaks

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  A judge found that state leaders can face liability claims if they didn't carry out proper safety measures

• Md. to pay $360K to inmates with disabilities who sued over inaccessibility

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  The suit alleged a culture of noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and a pattern of discrimination impacting inmates with disabilities

• Ala. prisons agency says federal suit ignores progress

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  The department has blamed inadequate staffing for many of the problems and said it has made "real strides" to recruit more employees

• Justice Department sues Ala. over prison conditions

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  The lawsuit comes after the Justice Department twice released investigative reports that accused the state of violating prisoner's rights

• Suit: Tenn. makes it too hard to restore felons' voting rights

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  Voter rights advocates submitted the 46-page class action complaint, arguing the state's current process is "unequal, inaccessible, opaque and error-ridden"

• Lawsuit: Newly hired Wash. CO fired for wearing BLM shirt to work

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  The CO said he wore the shirt in response to several other officers wearing "Police Lives Matter" shirts for weeks

• Ex-warden tells FBI, AG he was powerless to stop deaths, flow of drugs in Ohio jail

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  Eric Ivey criticized the sheriff's ability to conduct meaningful investigations into wrongdoing at the Cuyahoga County Jail

• US agrees to stop deporting migrant women who alleged abuse

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  The Justice Department and lawyers for several of the women agreed that immigration authorities wouldn't carry out any deportations until mid-January

• Transgender woman sues Ga. corrections officials again

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  Ashley Diamond said officials have failed to protect her from repeated sexual assaults behind bars and failed to provide her with adequate medical treatment

• Lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct at Chicago jail settled

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  The suit claimed physical and verbal abuse by inmates created a hostile work environment for female jail workers

• Family of CO who died from COVID-19 to sue NJ county for not providing PPE

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  Bernard Waddell Sr. was not given any personal protective equipment from March until his last day of work

• Lawsuit: Kan. rule to hold inmates sentenced to die in solitary is unconstitutional

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  Attorneys argued the procedure denies inmates "meaningful human contact for years on end" and subjects them to cruel and unusual punishment

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