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New Jersey Governor’s Order Allows People with Prior Felony Convictions to Serve on Jury Duty by On January 11, 2026, just days before New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) left office, he signed an executive order that restores jury duty service rights to state residents with felony convictions. As Bolts …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Minnesota Study Shows Disproportionate Rate of Health and Mental Problems for Recently Incarcerated by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson The Journal of General Internal Medicine recently published an open access study that looked at health conditions for people in Minnesota who had recently experienced homelessness or incarceration and compared them …
Texas Prisoner Declared Innocent 70 Years After Execution by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 21, 2026, the Dallas County Commissioners Court formally declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent of a 1953 rape and murder, 70 years after the State of Texas wrongfully executed him. According to the …
The New York Prison System’s Culture of Cruelty and Impunity by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson According to Daniel F. Martuscello III, commissioner of New York state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), “Individuals are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment, and there is an expectation of …
Federal Court Strikes Much of Virginia’s Felony Voting Restriction by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 22, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found the state’s felony disenfranchisement law ran afoul of the power granted by Congress when the state was readmitted to the …
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 …
Report on “Pay-­to-­Stay” Fees Makes Strong Case for Their Repeal by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Campaign Zero, a “research and data-­driven organization working to end police violence and carceral harm” released in June 2025 a report titled Paying for One’s Own Incarceration: National Landscape of ‘Pay-­to-­Stay’ Fees and called …
Hawaii Prison Warden Reinstated After Being Fired in 2014 for Sexual Harassment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson On September 17, 2025, the Hawai’i State Supreme Court affirmed a ruling allowing a warden who was fired in 2014 over a litany of accusations, including sexual harassment, to be reinstated. The …
Eleventh Circuit Overturns 1990 Alabama Death Sentence Over Racially Biased Jury Selection; ACLU Report Shows It Is Still Happening by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama prosecutor practiced purposeful discrimination in violation of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Lawsuit Alleges Black ICE Detainee Subjected to Racial Slurs, Choked in Restraint Chair at Pennsylvania Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   According to a federal civil rights action filed by Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project attorneys Matthew A. Feldman and Evangeline Wright on November 15, 2023, a Black …
U.N. Panel Finds Rampant Racism in U.S. Criminal Justice System by In what will surprise few prisoners, a report by an appointed panel of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) released on September 26, 2023, found “shocking” human rights violations and “staggering” racial disparities in U.S. criminal justice …
Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Dept., NY, Presentation on Excited Delirium, 2024 Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Department Psychological behaviors • Paranoia • Delusional • Agitation • Cannot follow commands • Emotional changes • Disoriented • Hallucinations • Looks like \\just snapped" …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing by David Reutter
Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars by In a report published on October 11, 2023, the nonprofit Sentencing Project noted that the lifetime risk of incarceration for Black men in the U.S. fell from one in three in 1981 to one in five in 2021. However, all …
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