by Jo Ellen Nott
Leaked surveillance and body-camera footage from the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla exposed a brutal August 2, 2024, assault on incarcerated women, many of whom were elderly or mobility-impaired. CCWF is the state’s largest women’s prison, with an intended capacity of 2,000 …
by Jo Ellen Nott
On January 21, 2026, the Dallas County Commissioners Court formally declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent of a 1953 rape and murder, 70 years after the State of Texas wrongfully executed him.
According to the Innocence Project of Dallas, Walker was just 19 when …
by Jo Ellen Nott
Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is reeling from a surge in fatalities, with seven prisoner deaths recorded in just two months.
Per reporting by The Baltimore Sun, this spike follows a grim 2025, when the state saw a four-year …
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 …
