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Watchdog Calls Out D.C. for Dragging Feet on Construction of New Jail by Chuck Sharman A report issued by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA) on May 28, 2025, outlined the municipality’s “urgent need for a new jail.” The population of the existing lockup, spread over two adjacent buildings …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Solving the Carceral Understaffing Crisis: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Most prison systems and jails are understaffed, with serious consequences for both the keepers and the kept. In facilities with too few guards, staff members typically have to work longer hours or multiple shifts in higher-stress, more dangerous …
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 • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death by On July 31, 2024, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail agreed to plead guilty to federal charges filed after a detainee was left naked on his cell floor for two weeks and froze to …
$500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 14, 2023, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve a state prisoner’s allegation that his Eighth Amendment guarantee of freedom from cruel and …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Nearly $11 Million Settlement Reached in Suit by BOP Prisoners Held Without Heat, Electricity During New York Winter Storm by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On August 18, 2023, an agreement was reached by Defendant officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) paying $10,936,250 to settle claims brought in …
“Fuck Him, He Can Freeze”: Pennsylvania Detainee’s Death Detailed in Suit Against PrimeCare by A wrongful termination suit filed against jail healthcare profiteer PrimeCare Medical, Inc. on May 23, 2023, brought disturbing details to light in the death five months earlier of an elderly detainee at Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Despite Prior Settlement Agreement, Sick Michigan Prisoners Still Forced to Wait for Medication in Cold and Rain by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Owing in part to the diligent efforts of Michigan prisoner Mark White and a suit he filed in March 2023, it appears that employees of the state …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
“Frozen in Solitude’’: Heat-Sensitive Texas Prisoners Get More Than Air Conditioning Locked Inside Former Segregation Cells by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a lawsuit over life-threatening excessive heat at the Wallace Pack Unit in 2018, it realized it needed to apply …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Hypothermia Kills Prisoner in Cold Pennsylvania Jail Cell, One of 17 Deaths Since 2019 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When Richard A. Carter, died in Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison (DCP) on Christmas Eve 2022, officials released key details that showed they had not neglected him. A nurse …
Article • January 9, 2023
Fulton County Jail Detainees Ended 2022 Freezing and Defecating in Trash Bags by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott With no end in sight for staffing shortages at the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta, detainees got a cruel blow the last week of 2022: A winter storm froze …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Cold
Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink by Tyler Hicks by Tyler Hicks When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
Lawsuit Over Winter Power Outage at Brooklyn’s Troubled Federal Detention Center Granted Class Certification by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Class-action status was granted on May 25, 2021, to a federal lawsuit brought by a half-dozen prisoners held by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at its Metropolitan Detention Center …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Feces Covered Cell Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on November 2, 2020 vacated lower court rulings that held prison officials were entitled to summary judgment in …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: Exposure to Cold, Plumbing
Texas Winter Storm Freezes Plumbing, Power and Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 14, 2021, a winter storm with temperatures far below freezing swept through Texas causing an unprepared electrical grid to falter and resulting in at least 57 deaths. The storm caused widespread power outages and …
Adams v. Doe, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement, 2020 Information Sheet for Case Number Case# 19-37 Official Case # 19-CV-37-NJR Case Filed Adam, Christopher #K67019 v. Shawnee Warden, et al. Plaintiffs: IDOC# Defendants: Date Served Received Status closed 6/26/19 6/27/19 Class Action On Appeal Spearc; Opposing Counsel: Institutions: Pro Se …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Lawsuit Alleging Denial of Warmth and Sufficient Sleep States Eighth Amendment Claim by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2019, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s civil rights complaint that alleged he was confined in a cold cell with …
Adams v. Doe, IL, Merit Review, Conditions of Confinement, 2019 Case 3:19-cv-00037-NJR Document 18 Filed 06/26/19 Page 1 of 7 Page ID #111 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ROBERT CHRISTOPHER ADAMS, #K67019, ) ) Plain tiff, ) ) ) vs. ) Case No. …
Brief • June 21, 2019
Scott v. Kramer, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement - Exposure to Cold, 2019 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE Joshua Orlando Scott v. Kramer, Lewis, Gats, Flowers, Lang and Hanson ND IL Case No. 17 CV 1050 Joshua Orlando Scott v. IDOC, Donald Kramer, James Lewis, Ducay, Norris and Aguirre ND …
Solitary Watch, American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Jesuit Social Research Institute: A Report on Lockdown - A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony from the People Who Live It, 2019 Louisiana on Lockdown A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in …
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