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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$6.75 Million Settlement Reached in Suit Accusing Massachusetts Guards of Retaliatory Assaults on Prisoners by Chuck Sharman Under an agreement reached on May 21, 2025, Massachusetts will pay $6.75 million to settle claims by a group of some 150 current and former state prisoners who accused guards at Souza-Baronowski Correctional …
Multiple Prisoner Suits Accuse Guards of Violence at Virginia BOP Lockup by Chuck Sharman A group of cases pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia paint a picture of senseless violence and petty retaliation by officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the …
$95,000 Paid to Nevada Prisoner Denied Muslim Prayer; Pending Cases Allege Continued Discrimination Against Non-Protestants by Chuck Sharman On December 6, 2024, two Nevada prisoners filed notices as interested parties in the religious discrimination case of a third, Said Elmajzoub. By that point, he had won a $95,000 settlement from …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Prison Gerrymandering Alive and Well in Oklahoma by Chuck Sharman As states across the country push to end “prison gerrymandering”—the U.S. Census practice of counting prisoners in the typically rural and white areas where they are held, thereby diluting the voting power of the urban and non-white areas that they …
Wiccan Nevada Prisoner Wins 18-Year Fight for Religious Items by Clark Nelly On November 13, 2024, Nevada prisoner Anthony Thomas Chernetsky finally secured what he had fought over 18 years to get from the state Department of Corrections (DOC): Permission to use natural anointing oils and build a sweatlodge to …
Gay Tennessee Prisoner Refuses to Out Himself in PREA Classification Hearings by In an essay for Filter Magazine published on February 10, 2025, openly gay Tennessee prisoner Tony Vick made a surprising admission: He consistently identifies himself as “straight” in annual classification hearings conducted under the Prison Rape Elimination Act …
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Religious Exercise Claim from Arizona “Christian-Israelite” Prisoner Denied Passover Meal by Michael Thompson In 2017, a prisoner describing himself as a “Christian-Israelite” was denied access to his Arizona prison’s Passover meal after the unit chaplain challenged his religious beliefs. Michael Ray Fuqua was incarcerated at the Arizona …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Baha’i Texas Prisoner’s Dietary Claim by Matthew Clarke On September 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a summary judgment dismissing a prisoner’s claim that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) refused to provide him a diet that conformed to …
Brief • May 28, 2025
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Order Denying Motion to Dismiss, Denial of Disability Accomodations, 2025 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 48 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/28/2025 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 24-24253-CV-WILLIAMS DWAYNE WILSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. RICKY DIXON, et al., Defendants. ___________________________________/ …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Maryland Targets Highest-in-Nation Racial Incarceration Gap by Black Marylanders make up 30% of the state’s population but 71% of those in its prisons, the nation’s highest racial incarceration gap. To address that imbalance, state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown (D) helped launch the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) in October …
Muslim Prisoners Face Price-Gouging by A fair amount of ink has been spilled about the high cost of items sold in prison commissaries. From honeybuns to deodorant, it’s all exorbitantly expensive, especially in light of the low wages prisoners are paid. But one often overlooked aspect of commissary pricing is …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Agrees to Improve Services for Hearing-Impaired Prisoners by On September 25, 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) entered into a pre-litigation settlement agreement with the federal Department of Justice (DOJ), promising to improve services provided to deaf and hard of hearing prisoners, in compliance with Title II …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1.35 Million in Settlements for One-Legged San Francisco Detainee Forced to Hop—Twice by On March 4, 2025, the City and County of San Francisco approved an $825,000 settlement with Vincent Bell, a one-legged city jail detainee who sued over an outrageous 2018 incident in which a guard supervisor forced him …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
New Jersey Guard Sacked for Mocking George Floyd Killing Loses Appeal by On March 26, 2025, a New Jersey appellate court ruled against former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Joseph DeMarco in an appeal to his firing for taking part in a crude counter-protest to Black Lives Matter demonstrations, …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Deal to Release Cuban Prisoners Upended by Among a raft of executive orders issued the day of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) signed one reversing a decision by his predecessor to remove Cuba from a “blacklist” of nations accused of sponsoring terrorism. Though cheered …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
The Grift That Keeps on Giving: $33 Million for State Prisons Generated by Seized Native Land by In 2024, land trusts in 10 states generated an estimated $33 million in revenue for their prison systems. The figure was estimated from reports by Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, …
Washington Prisoner Sues Jail Where Assault Left Him Comatose, DOC Guard Who Then Sexually Abused Him by In July 2024, 37-year-old Nathaniel Woods filed lawsuits against the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Pierce County Jail for an assault he suffered there and sexual abuse by a DOC guard …
Biden Clemencies Include Imprisoned Native American Activist, “Kids for Cash” Judge by Before leaving office on January 20, 2025, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) issued a raft of clemency orders—including a sentence commutation for a Native American activist who was considered a political prisoner by Amnesty International and …
Tennessee DOC Found in Violation of ADA With Failure to Accommodate Hearing Impaired Prisoners by As previously reported in PLN, hearing-impaired prisoner Ernest Trivette filed suit against the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) in March 2020, accusing the prison system of failing to accommodate his disability. [See: PLN, Jan. 2024, …
DOJ Settles Complaints About Conditions for Disabled Detroit Jail Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved an agreement with Michigan’s Wayne County that promised to improve conditions at its jail in Detroit for prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. …
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