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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 • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Nebraska Considers Curbing Double-Bunking in Restrictive Housing by Since 2017, at least three prisoners in Nebraska have died of suspected homicides while locked in double-bunked cells. Nebraska, whose prison system routinely operates at 140% capacity, has paid nearly $900,000 in lawsuit settlements related to the deaths, the Flatwater Free Press …
Ongoing Detainee Deaths Push Rikers Island into Federal Court Receivership by Anthony Accurso When 27-year-old Dashawn Jenkins died in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on April 1, 2025, it was the fifth detainee death of the year and at least the 38th since Mayor Eric Adams (D) took …
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 …
Los Angeles County Jails Record Almost One Death Every Nine Days by Los Angeles County jails counted 87 deaths of prisoners and detainees in 813 days since the beginning of 2023, according to a report by the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice on March 25, 2025. The high mortality rate …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
TDCJ to Run Out of Beds in 2025 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Sunset Advisory Commission, an oversight body for Texas government agencies, published a 189-page report in September 2024 that found persistent critical staffing shortages are making Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisons unsafe for staff …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
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No State Oversight of Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Non-Compliant Idaho Jails by A news report by nonprofit media organization InvestigateWest on October 12, 2024, revealed something startling about Idaho: “Unlike most states,” the report said, there is no regulatory oversight of local jails—meaning “[s]heriffs and jail commanders set their own standards.” …
Second Rapper Stabbed in Atlanta Jail During Record-Long Trial by Rapper Yak Gotti, whose real name is Deamonte Kendrick, 32, was stabbed in the south annex of Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on December 1, 2024, during a racketeering trial involving fellow rapper Young Thug—real name Jeffrey Lamar Williams, 33—and four …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
More Alabama Prisoners Murdered in Overcrowded Lockups by After a string of killings at Alabama prisons blamed on overcrowding, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest on July 7, 2024, in a long-running lawsuit over conditions at one state prison. With too few guards to adequately …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Prisoner Admissions Soar at Massachusetts Psychiatric Lockup Plagued by Overcrowding and Violence by As of March 11, 2024, almost half those held at Massachusetts’ Tewksbury Hospital were forensic patients, admitted to the state-­run mental health lockup from the criminal justice system. At the same time, the state Department of Mental …
“Too brutal, too disgusting”: Prison Guards Flee as Working Conditions Worsen by The nonprofit Marshall Project reported on January 10, 2024, that dire prison staffing shortages nationwide have left the number of people working in state prisons at the lowest level in over two decades. The resulting thinning of supervision …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
Grand Jury Slams Sacramento County for Delaying Jail Improvements Mandated in Consent Decree by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Delays in improvements mandated in a 2020 consent decree resulted in at least six preventable detainee deaths at Sacramento County jails, according to a grand jury investigative report on June 2, …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Months-­Long Wisconsin Prison Lockdown Prompts Lawsuits by A federal lawsuit filed on October 26, 2023, seeks class-­action status for a group of Wisconsin prisoners challenging poor healthcare and conditions of confinement in the state Department of Corrections (DOC), resulting from “a prolonged, unnecessary and unexplained lockdown” that has so far …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards by A riot broke out at Ironwood State Prison on January 31, 2024, triggering a “threat assessment” that locked down every facility run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Eight staffers and one prisoner were hospitalized …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Overcrowded and Understaffed, Oklahoma County Jail Remains “Deplorable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A headline in the August 1965 edition of The Daily Oklahoman said that then-Sheriff Bob Turner of Oklahoma County “denies his jail’s ‘deplorable.’” A new jail was later built, but almost six decades later, a …
Long Waits for Montana Jail Detainees Needing Competency Restoration Services by As of June 30, 2023, an unnamed detainee at Montana’s Flathead County Jail (FCJ) had been held over nine months on a burglary charge, though she was not scheduled for trial. Instead the woman, who suffers from mental illness, …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
U.S. Prison and Jail Population On the Rise by A report published in June 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice revealed that the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. has risen quickly from lows reached during the COVID-19 pandemic though it hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels. Between 2019 …
Dunsmore v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept, CA, Order Granting Joint Motion for Class Certification and Approval of Proposed Class Action Notice Plan, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 3:20-cv-00406-AJB-DDL Document 435 Filed 11/03/23 PageID.16793 Page 1 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
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