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After Exposing Prison Horrors, Incarcerated Whistleblowers Are Moved to Solitary by Katie Rose Quandt by Katie Rose Quandt This article was originally published by Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that exposes the horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s …
Last of 16 Sentenced in California Prison Aryan Brotherhood Case, As Lawyer Learns He Was Targeted in Murder Plot by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A wild day unfolded in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on November 13, 2025, as the attorney for the last …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Report Shows How Prison Gerrymanders Distort Democracy Across U.S. by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a report compiled on November 25, 2025, the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) broke down the impact of prison “gerrymandering” in 14 of the 33 states that have so far failed to halt the …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Labor Coalition in Minnesota Demands Disney Contractor Pay Prisoners Minimum Wage by A group of prison laborers and unions in Minnesota are demanding that Anagram International, LLC, a Minnesota-­based balloon company that subcontracts with Disney, pay incarcerated workers $11.13 an hour, which is the state’s minimum wage (The current wage …
New York State Closes Yet Another Prison by In November 2025, the state of New York announced that it will close the Bare Hill Correctional Facility (BHCF), a prison near the Canadian border, by March of next year. The closure of the facility, which has a staff of 293 and …
Tennessee Seeks $13 Million Raise for CoreCivic, Despite Violations by The Tennessee Department of Correction (DOC) is asking Gov. Bill Lee (R) to increase the state’s contract with private prison profiteer CoreCivic, Inc. by $13 million. On November 4, 2025, DOC head Frank Strada presented an annual budget request for …
New York Jury Convicts Former Guard for Robert Brooks’ Taped Killing by On October 20, 2025, a jury convicted a former prison guard of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old prisoner at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. David Kingsley, the convicted guard, …
Preliminary Injunction Halts Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners at New York Lockup Where Wildcat Guard Strike Began by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 15, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction ordering the state Department of Corrections and …
Jail-­Based IGNITE Program Found to Reduce Recidivism by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A study analyzing the effects of a new jail-­based rehabilitation program shows significant reductions in recidivism, and is upending the previous correctional mindset of “nothing works.” Nearly 600,000 people are incarcerated in jails in the United …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Review: “Reforming the Shadow Carceral State” by In an academic paper published in the November 2024 issue of Theoretical Criminology, researchers Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner, and April D. Fernandes examined efforts to reform what they termed the “shadow carceral state.” While the carceral state encompasses the criminal legal system—jails, prison, …
Former Prisoner Informant Appointed Deputy Director of BOP by On June 5, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) tapped Tennessee businessman Joshua J. Smith, 50, to serve as Deputy Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Smith, whom Trump pardoned in his first term, is the first former prisoner …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Washington DOC On Hot Seat Over “Unexpected Fatalities,” Missed Autopsies by A report released on January 10, 2025, by the Office of the Corrections Ombuds (OCO) of the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) counted 26 “unexpected fatalities” during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2024. A report released …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Crackdown On Pro-Palestinian Dissent Nabs New York Professor Who Found Link Between Cars and Incarceration by One of two New York University (NYU) tenured faculty members barred from parts of its campus in December 2024 is a sociologist who has documented a link between the proliferation of American car culture …
Pardoned Insurrectionists Brought to D.C. Jail Demanded Others’ Immediate Release by When Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) returned to office on January 20, 2025, he pardoned some 1,500 prisoners convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol to keep him in office in January 2021, after his loss to former Pres. Joseph …
Porn Produced by Georgia Prisoners by On July 16, 2024, the Human & Civil Rights Coalition (HCRC) of Georgia posted screenshots to its Facebook page from pornographic videos produced inside Wilcox State Prison and posted online by state prisoners. As the post noted, the videos ran up to 45 minutes, …
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 …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
GOP Washington Lawmaker Trolls Felon Enfranchisement Proponents by In Washington, newly elected state Sen. Leonard Christian (R-Spokane Valley) wasted little time in introducing a bill in February 2025 to save a building slated for demolition at the state Capitol in Olympia and turn it into a work-release center for state …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
New York Guards Strike After 10 Charged in Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by On February 18, 2025, charges were announced against nine New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert L. Brooks, 43. The announcement was followed by a rogue strike staged …
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 5, 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a notice of settlement in court indicating that it paid $135,000 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit accusing a guard of intentionally allowing other prisoners into his cell …
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