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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arizona Challenge to Private Prisons by In 2020, the Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two state prisoners filed a federal class-action suit, challenging the state’s use of privately-operated prisons on a variety of constitutional grounds. The …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Gag Order on Tennessee Attorney for Criticizing CoreCivic Lifted by Judge by Nashville-area attorney Daniel Horwitz will no longer be barred from publicly criticizing a private prison after the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee amended its rules in May 2025.  The development comes three years after …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$95,000 in Settlements for Illinois Prisoners Retaliated Against for Class Participation in Prison Education Programs by David Reutter On October 4, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) settled the second of two lawsuits brought by prisoners involved in educational programs who claimed that they were subjected to retaliation after …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Fourth Circuit Upholds South Carolina DOC Policy Restricting Prisoner Access to News Media by Those in custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) “lose the privilege of speaking to the news media,” a policy that makes it “unique among prison systems nationwide,” according to the American Civil Liberties …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Federal Court Blocks Idaho Executions Until Media Access Improves by On April 29, 2025, the federal court for the District of Idaho issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state Department of Corrections (DOC) from carrying out any executions until it improves access for members of the media. The ruling came …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Eleventh Circuit Revives Volunteer Pastor’s First Amendment Claim at Georgia Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A volunteer minister took a dustup with Georgia jailers over baptism to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which agreed on September 16, 2024, that he had been subjected …
Eleventh Circuit Revives Claim Against Florida Jail That Forced Detainee to Scan Legal Mail Into Computer with Memory Chip by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed dismissal of a claim alleging two guards at Florida’s Polk …
Brief • January 2, 2024
Ahmadi v. King County, WA, Complaint, Unlawful Detention, 2024 Case 2:24-cv-00002-RAJ 1 3 RATIB AHMADI, 5 6 7 8 11 12 Page 1 of 11 Case No.: 2:24-cv-2 Plaintiff, CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL vs. KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON, Defendant. 9 10 Filed 01/02/24 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
Eleventh Circuit Addresses First Amendment, Due Process Interests in Georgia Prisoner Emails by New communications technology introduced in prisons and jails has raised questions as to how prisoners’ First Amendment rights are implicated. Such concerns were addressed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 23, …
Fourth Circuit Rebuffs Federal Prisoner’s Attempt to Expand Bivens in North Carolina by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a federal prisoner’s civil rights suit, finding his Fifth Amendment claim did not fit within …
CoreCivic Fails to Defeat California’s Anti-SLAPP Law at Ninth Circuit, Must Pay $45,630 in Attorney Fees by In November 2022 the federal court for the Northern District of California shot down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition v. Desantis, FL, Complaint, Voter Rights, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-22688-XXXX Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 07/19/2023 Page 1 of 74 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION, RHOSHANDA JONES, ANGEL SANCHEZ, AUTUMN WAITE, and BRANDON WALTHOUR, Plaintiffs, EM O …
Article • June 22, 2023
Arizona Exploiting Prisoner Labor for Profit by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A new constitutional amendment proposed to Congress in June 2023 would remove the exception for prisoners to the U.S. ban on slavery. The effort follows a report from Arizona in December 2022, which found that private firms …
Publication • 2023
Carceral Deference-Courts and Their Pro-Prison Propensities, March 2023 DRAFT – NOT FOR CIRCULATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR CITATION. 3/7/23 5:21 AM CARCERAL DEFERENCE: COURTS AND THEIR PRO-PRISON PROPENSITIES Danielle C. Jefferis* 92 FORDHAM L. REV. ___ (2023) (forthcoming) ABSTRACT Judicial deference to non-judicial state actors, as a general matter, is ubiquitous. But …
Article • September 16, 2022
Wait,What? Florida DOC Bans Tee Shirts Promoting Prisoner Visits by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On August 5, 2022, the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) warned employees that certain t-shirts worn by visitors to state prisons “are considered inflammatory and a potential threat to security.” So what messages …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$250,000 Paid to Woman Forced to Give Birth in California Jail Cell by Guards and CFMG Nurses by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye A woman who gave birth in a cell in 2017 at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California, has been awarded $250,000 to settle a lawsuit she …
Brief • 2022
Investigation of Orange County D.A.'s Office and Sheriff's Department -Oct. 2022 Investigation of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division October 13, 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 1 II. BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................... 4 A. Orange County, …
Publication • 2022
People Over Profit-The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System, 2022 People over Profit: The Case for Abolishing the Prison Financial System Sean Kolkey * The term “mass incarceration” is used to describe a crisis that, to many, is both abstract and distant. But for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, low-income, and …
Article • March 22, 2022
Colorado Prisoners Sue DOC and Governor for Violation of State Constitutional Prohibition Against Slavery by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On February 15, 2022, two prisoners at the Fremont Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the State of Colorado, Governor Jared …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of NY Prisoner’s Due Process Claim on Grounds It Was Abandoned on Appeal by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a ruling issued on January 19, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that a lower court erred in dismissing a …
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