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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Sixth Circuit Holds Dismissal Not Automatic When Plaintiff Simultaneously Files Same Claims in State Court by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s claim of retaliation, finding the district court misapplied a waiver doctrine that prevented persons from …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail by On May 6, 2025, the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a non-profit law firm, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) over the practice of intercepting mail between prisoners and their attorneys. The …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Arkansas DOC Settles Retaliation Claim by Prisoner Who Also Won Back Confiscated COVID-19 Stimulus by After the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) reached a settlement with state prisoner Anthony Lamar in his retaliation claim against officials at the Varner Unit, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas granted …
Seventh Circuit Lets BOP Restrict Access to Federal Register from Prison in Illinois by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on July 30, 2024, that the First Amendment does not require the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide full, daily access to the Federal Register …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Report Finds Exploitative Disciplinary Fines in One-Third of U.S. Prison Systems by "In yet another example of how the criminal legal system extracts wealth from the poorest families, at least one-third of prison systems nationwide charge fees as a punishment for a rule violation.” So begins a report released by …
DOJ Concludes BOP Pretrial Detainees Need Improvements in Access to Attorneys by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a report and recommendations concerning access to attorneys for pretrial detainees in federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities. The report focused on …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
Nearly 5,000 Sexual Victimizations Counted in Three Years in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 31, 2023, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report counting 4,895 sexual assaults on U.S. prisoners and detainees in just three years. From 2016 through 2018, the …
Newly Released Government Records Reveal Horrible Neglect of Terminally Ill Woman in Federal Prison by C.J. Ciaramella by C.J. Ciaramella A woman who died in federal prison suffered in pain for eight months while waiting for a routine CT scan, records released to Reason show. Doris Nelson was one of …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Fifth Circuit: Martinez Report May Not Override Factual Allegations in Prisoner’s Complaint by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that facts alleged in a supplemental administrative report which a district court requested from prison officials may not …
Article • May 1, 2022
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
Investigation Finds Hundreds of Unreported Deaths in Tennessee Prisons and Jails by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A November 2021 investigation by Knoxville TV station WBIR found prisons and jails across the Volunteer State were underreporting in-custody deaths to the state Bureau of Investigation (TBI), in apparent violation of Tennessee …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
California Supreme Court Reclassifies Clemency Records, No Longer Confidential by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On May 26, 2021, the Supreme Court of California filed en banc a new administrative order changing the Court’s published Internal Operating Practices and Procedures regarding the confidentiality of clemency records. The Court had previously …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Department of Justice Reports on Two Decades of Prisoner Suicides by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When actor Peter Robbins died by suicide in California on January 18, 2022, the news saddened fans of Charlie Brown, whose voice he provided for animated Peanuts specials in the 1960s. But Robbins, 65, …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Justice Department Releases Ten-Year Recidivism Study by Matthew Clarke Follows a half-million state prisoners released in 2008 by Matt Clarke From 2016 through 2019, the last years for which reliable data are available, about 10.5 million arrests were made in the U.S. annually. Averaged over a decade, that’s less than …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Audit Reveals Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Chaplaincy Services Branch Critically Depleted by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Chaplaincy Services Branch (CSB) in July 2021. The CSB is responsible for the BOP’s religious services …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Seventh Circuit: PLRA Mandates Dismissal for Deceit on IFP Application by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that when a prisoner deliberately misrepresents their financial status when seeking in forma pauperis (IFP)status, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires dismissal. In another case …
Publication • 2020
Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People 2020 DE GRUYTER Open Information Science 2020; 4: 169–185 Research Article Jeanie Austin*, Melissa Charenko, Michelle Dillon, Jodi Lincoln Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0013 Received October 30, 2019; accepted July …
Article • April 2, 2020
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Complaint Over Consequences of Prisoner Unrest as Frivolous by On February 20, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se, in forma pauperis federal civil rights complaint primarily over the consequences flowing from a physical …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Are Prison Law Libraries Adequate? by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell If you’ve ever had to rely on a prison law library to research for a court filing, you know just how sorely lacking they can be. And that’s if you were even able to access the law library. Many …
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