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Publication • December 2, 2025
Department of Justice-National PREA Standards Alignment With Executive Order, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Washington , D.C. 20531 MEMORANDUM TO: All DOJ-certified PREA Auditors FROM: Tammie M. Gregg Principal Deputy Director Bureau of Justice Assistance SUBJECT: National PREA Standards Alignment with Executive …
Publication • September 15, 2025
Letter to FCC re Incarcerated People's Communication Services-09-15-2025 September 15, 2025 Chairman Brendan Carr Commissioner Anna Gomez Commissioner Olivia Trusty Federal Communications Commission 50 L Street, NE Washington, DC 20554 Re: Incarcerated People’s Communications Services, WC Docket Nos. 23-62, 12-375 Dear Chairman Carr, Commissioners Gomez and Trusty: The ninety-five undersigned …
Brief • September 3, 2025
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025 No. 23-1197 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ________________ DAMON LANDOR, Petitioner, v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY, ET AL., Respondents. ________________ ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
HRDC Wins Consent Decree, $350,000 in Jail Censorship Suit against California’s Sonoma County by Chuck Sharman On June 2, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a consent decree settling demands for injunctive relief filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) against California’s Sonoma County …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former New Jersey Jailers Plead Guilty to Beating Detainee for Tossing Urine by Three former jail guards from Passaic County, New Jersey could face years in prison after they pleaded guilty on May 21, 2025, to assaulting a detainee and lying about it. The guards, Jose Gonzalez, Donald Vinales, and Lorenzo …
$42,000 Paid to Wisconsin Prisoner Allowed to Harm Himself While Under Observation by Anthony Accurso On November 19, 2024, the State of Wisconsin paid $42,000 to settle a trio of lawsuits filed by a state prisoner making claims of excessive force and deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Waupun Correctional …
Nearly $2.6 Million Paid to Former Minnesota Jail Detainee for Injuries from Delayed Withdrawal Treatment by David Reutter On February 12, 2025, attorneys for a former detainee jailed by Minnesota’s Anoka County stipulated to dismissal of his claims for injuries suffered when he was denied withdrawal treatment while incarcerated. In …
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Milwaukee Jail’s Mail Policy in HRDC Suit by Like many local lockups, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) imposes restrictions on the number and types of books and periodicals that prisoners and detainees can receive. As of July 2024, MCJ’s mail policy required periodicals to be “mailed …
Seventh Circuit Revives Former Illinois Prisoner’s Claim for Delayed Hepatitis-C Treatment by David Reutter On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a former Illinois prisoner’s deliberate indifference claim against a healthcare provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) could proceed …
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 …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Long-Running Consent Decree Again Extended at Troubled Baltimore Jail by On October 18, 2024, the federal court for the District of Maryland granted a motion to modify a years-old consent decree in a decades-old class-action challenge to conditions at Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center (CBIC). As PLN reported, the …
Sixth Circuit Limits Deliberate Indifference Standard in Kentucky Jail Medical Care Challenge by David M. Reutter Since its September 2021 ruling in Brawner v. Scott Cty., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has held that pretrial detainees challenging their medical care in jail are not fully held …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested in Alleged Smuggling Ring by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on April 9, 2025, that arrest warrants were issued for seven guards at the Telford Unit who are accused of running a contraband smuggling ring at the prison. Seven search warrants were …
Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer by In a lawsuit filed by a former Florida prisoner who was released to die from prostate cancer that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were …
Kentucky Jail Sued for Detainee’s Death, Prisoner’s Stillborn Child by On March 3, 2025, the federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky denied a motion to dismiss Eighth Amendment violation and negligence claims lodged against jail medical contractor West Kentucky Correctional Healthcare LLC (WKCH) by a former prisoner whose …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Mass Incarceration Weakens All Workers by Eric Seligman, Brian Nam-Sonenstein by Eric Seligman and Brian Nam-Sonenstein One of the ways that mass incarceration traps people in poverty is by raising the stakes of unemployment for all workers, creating immense obstacles to organizing for better terms of employment. Rather than alleviate …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso At the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 22, 2024, a Louisiana prisoner defeated a claim of qualified immunity …
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 …
$250,000 Settlement But No Charges After Alabama Guards Beat Prisoner To Death by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Alabama Department of Finance issued a $250,000 payment on behalf of the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on August 16, 2024, settling a suit filed by the survivors of state …
Southern Health Partners Settles Suit Over Kentucky Jail Meth Death by On June 6, 2024, an undocketed settlement was reached between a Kentucky jail’s private medical contractor and the administrator of the estate of a detainee who died of methamphetamine toxicity in 2019. The agreement followed a disappointing decision for …
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