by Jo Ellen Knott
In escape from Georgia’s DeKalb County Jail concluded in Florida on December 23, 2025, following a multi-state manhunt, according to The Guardian. Stevenson Charles, 24, Yusuf Minor, 31, and Naod Yohannes, 25, fled the aging jail in Decatur on …
by Jo Ellen Knott
According to WKTV in Utica, former New York state prison guard David Walters will remain free on bail while appealing his manslaughter conviction. Walters, 37, posted a $100,000 bond and was released from Elmira Correctional Facility in December 2025. Earlier that year, he had …
by Jo Ellen Knott
In a move that further isolates prisoners from the outside world, the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) voted unanimously on December 19, 2025, to ban all externally purchased books, magazines, and newspapers sent directly to prisoners. The new policy—one of the strictest in the …
by Jo Ellen Knott
In a calculated effort to evade liability for systemic custodial sexual violence, lawyers for New York State plan to ask judges to dismiss approximately 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits based on minor clerical technicalities, according to New York Focus.
These cases, filed …
by Jo Ellen Nott
As part of the ongoing legal proceedings in the death of 22-year-old New York state prisoner Messiah Nantwi, Mid-State Correctional Facility guard Francis Chandler pled guilty in Oneida County Court to second-degree gang assault on October 16, 2025, according to Nexstar Media Group …
by Jo Ellen Nott
The New York Times reported that Leon Wilson, 51, a veteran guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, was convicted on October 28, 2025, in the borough’s Federal District Court for a vigilante pursuit and shooting. Wilson, 51, was found guilty of …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On October 14, 2025, at around 6 p.m. in the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, Lance Shockley, 48, was executed by lethal injection after Governor Mike Kehoe (R) denied him clemency. The state executed the former prison minister for the 2005 murder of …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On June 23, 2023, a group consisting of 55 of the 58 California county probation chiefs quietly disbanded the nonprofit they formed out of the public’s eye to provide housing and treatment to youth being transferred out of the state juvenile justice system. They …
by Jo Ellen Nott
The wives and girlfriends of some 8,500 Brazilian prisoners are finding fame and fortune with “sister-in-law” videos that have gone viral on the TikTok social media app. The videos offer a window into the harsh reality of life in Brazil’s prisons, where overcrowding and …
by Jo Ellen Nott and Chuck Sharman
Long notorious for harsh prison conditions, Alabama’s Department of Corrections (DOC) shows no signs of remediating them despite not one but two suits by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) for violating the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of state prisoners.
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