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Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its operations. But at the heart of the most dysfunctional prisons PLN has reported on over the last 35 years is …
DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions in Texas Juvenile Detention by Chuck Sharman Texas lawmakers took steps in opposite directions toward solving a crisis in state juvenile detention centers, after all five lockups operated by the state Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) were found to be violating the civil rights of youthful offenders …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
California Enacts Counterproductive, Regressive Solitary Confinement Bill by Prison systems are increasingly rethinking solitary confinement due to extensive research that has found solitary results in serious detrimental effects—particularly on prisoners who are mentally ill, pregnant, or otherwise vulnerable. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) was ordered to implement …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania DOC in Prisoner’s Challenge to 26 Years of Solitary Confinement by On September 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found “no room for doubt” that a mentally-ill Pennsylvania prisoner has a basic constitutional right not to be …
$250,000 Settlement But No Charges After Alabama Guards Beat Prisoner To Death by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Alabama Department of Finance issued a $250,000 payment on behalf of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on August 16, 2024, settling a suit filed by the survivors of state …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
New York Suspends Solitary Ban to Woo Back Striking Prison Guards by Under a deal reached at the end of February 2025 with striking state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) agreed to a 90-day suspension of a law limiting use of …
Tenth Alabama Jail Employee Pleads Guilty in Detainee’s Freezing Death by On February 11, 2025, Megan Johnson, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the civil rights of detainee Anthony “Tony” Mitchell when she failed to keep him from freezing to death at …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
$100,000 Settlement Reached in New York Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Suit, After Jury for First Time Finds Practice Violates Eighth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2024, the state of New York agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the state had violated …
‘Eye Opening’ Self-Harm Found in Washington DOC Solitary Confinement by A report released in September 2024 by the Washington Corrections Ombuds found that incidence of self-harm was particularly high among state Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoners held in solitary confinement. The report was the second by the Ombuds Office since …
New York Prison Officials Found Routinely Violating HALT Act With Overuse of Solitary Confinement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 18, 2024, the New York Supreme Court for Albany County found that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) routinely violated Correctional Law § 137(6)(k)(ii), the Humane …
Oregon Holds BLM Protestor in Solitary Confinement for 250 Days by On November 29, 2024, Malik Muhammad, 25, ended a nine-day hunger strike protesting nearly 250 days that he was held in solitary confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary. His time in solitary exceeded the state Department of Corrections’ (DOC) …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Released from Solitary After 15 Years by On March 5, 2024, the federal court for the Western District of Pennsylvania agreed to dismiss the complaint of a state prisoner held in solitary confinement for 15 years after the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reportedly agreed to a settlement. …
Six Set Themselves on Fire at Virginia Prison in 2024 by Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoners Ekong Eshiet, 28, and Trevaun Brown, 23, lit themselves on fire at Red Onion State Prison on September 15, 2024, demanding an end to deprivations including lengthy solitary confinement. Both were transferred to …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Suicidal Texas Prisoners Held in Phone-Booth-Size “Containment Cages” by In an essay published by Slate on October 20, 2024, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner Jeremy Busby admitted that even after 20 years behind bars, what he found when released from a 23-month solitary confinement in 2022 left him …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
$7.25 Million Paid for Psychotic Detainee’s Suicide After 20 Days in Solitary at Indiana Jail by On May 28, 2024, remaining claims were dismissed in federal court for the Southern District of Indiana by the Estate of Joshua McLemore, a psychotic Jackson County Jail detainee who starved himself to death …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Texas Holds 1 in 41 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement by As of March 2024, Texas state prisoner Ricky Smith, 56, had spent over 30 years in solitary confinement. Though the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) calls it “security detention,” he is one of 3,141 state prisoners held alone in …
Federal Watchdog, SCOTUS Fail to Limit Solitary Confinement Abuses by Douglas Ankney, Anthony Accurso by Douglas Ankney and Anthony W. Accurso Prisoners have lost two chances to rein in abuses of solitary confinement in the past year, most recently with a toothless advisory from the Office of the Inspector General …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
First Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Massachusetts Officials Who Held Prisoner in Solitary for Two Years Without Hearing by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a maddeningly byzantine decision on February 21, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed a claim by Massachusetts prisoner Jwainus Perry …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
New York City Mayor Blocks Solitary Confinement Ban After Council Overrides His Veto by New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) declared a state of emergency on July 28, 2024, issuing an executive order blocking a new law banning solitary confinement in city jails just one day before it was …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Solitary Confinement Prompts Lawsuit in Massachusetts, Hunger Strike in Maine by A suit filed by six Massachusetts prisoners on July 1, 2024, alleges that conditions in what the state Department of Corrections (DOC) calls a “Secure Adjustment Unit” (SAU) are no different from solitary confinement—something state legislators outlawed in 2018. …
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