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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, …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$815,000 Settlement in Nevada Class-Action Suit Over Debit Release Cards by A Nevada federal district court has approved a $815,000 settlement in a class-action case challenging the use of fee-laden debit cards that prisoners receive upon release, containing the balance from their inmate trust accounts. The lawsuit, filed by former …
$2.8 Million Settlement in National NUMI Debit Release Card Class Action by David Reutter A $2.8 million partial settlement was reached on March 4, 2024, in a national class action lawsuit challenging excessive fees on jail and prison “debit release” cards. The case was filed in 2015 by the Human …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy by Prison healthcare giant Wellpath took a step closer toward exiting bankruptcy proceedings on April 15, 2025, when it announced a settlement reached with a group a notch below those senior creditors first in line for repayment. That group of junior creditors includes prisoners …
Muslim Prisoners Face Price-Gouging by A fair amount of ink has been spilled about the high cost of items sold in prison commissaries. From honeybuns to deodorant, it’s all exorbitantly expensive, especially in light of the low wages prisoners are paid. But one often overlooked aspect of commissary pricing is …
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit by On October 31, 2024, preliminary approval was granted to a settlement reached with the second of three prison telecom giants accused of illegal price-fixing. The suit was filed in June 2020 in United States District Court for …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
National Class Certified in Washington Jail Debit-Release Card Suit by In a suit challenging excessive fees charged on debit cards issued to those released from Washington’s Pierce County Jail, former detainee Plaintiffs secured nationwide class certification on February 13, 2025. But first they had to defeat a motion by Defendant …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$4 Million Settlement Approved in HRDC’s Oregon Debit-Release Card Suit by On December 10, 2024, the federal court for the District of Oregon issued final approval of a $4 million settlement resolving claims by a former Portland jail detainee that money confiscated from her upon booking was eaten up by …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
California Stops Raiding Released Prisoners’ Gate Money by California prisoners will benefit from a policy change announced by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on December 4, 2024. Bowing to pressure from politicians, as well as a class action lawsuit, the CDCR will no longer garnish gate money …
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Pennsylvania County Forgives $65 Million in Jail Pay-to-Stay Fees by Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County voted on September 19, 2024, to forgive $65,902,534.98 in debt owed by former detainees at the county lockup for unpaid fees they were charged during their incarceration. Such “pay to stay” fees have ballooned over …
BOP Eases Money Grab from Federal Prisoners by On December 17, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) issued a proposed rule change to its Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IFRP), outlining how much of a federal prisoner’s trust account may be garnished to satisfy restitution and other court-ordered payments. The …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Washington Spends Only Fraction of Fund to Improve Prisoner Welfare by On October 25, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it tapped $1.3 million from its Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund (IIBF)—money that had not been spent, the agency added. Funded 90% by kickbacks from prisoner phone calls …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Louisiana Prisoner Charged With Running Sports Gambling Operation by On December 18, 2024, Louisiana State Police (LSP) arrested Elayn Hunt Correctional Center prisoner Broderick Scott, 48, on charges that he operated a large-scale sports gambling operation from his cell. LSP said that a year-long investigation had identified over 30,000 transactions …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Georgia Prisoner Accused of Running $3.5 Million “Protection” Racket by Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Asaad Amir Hasuan, 43—also known as “Dante Frederick”—was indicted by a federal grand jury in Delaware on November 14, 2024, for allegedly scamming at least $3.5 million from friends and loved ones of fellow …
Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
Brief • December 10, 2024
Brown v. Stored Value Cards, Inc, OR, Settlement, Debit Cards, 2024 Case 3:15-cv-01370-MO Document 323 Filed 12/10/24 Page 1 of 44 Megan E. Glor, OSB No. 930178 megan@meganglor.com MEGAN E. GLOR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, P.C. 707 NE Knott Street, Suite 101 Portland, OR 97212 Telephone: (503) 223-7400 Facsimile: (503) 751-2071 …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Kentucky Prisoners Take Advantage of Securus Software Glitch for $1 Million by On August 24, 2024, Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader reported that prisoners at several state prisons took advantage of a software vulnerability in state-­issued Securus Technologies tablets to fraudulently create over $1 million in digital credits. The counterfeit funds were …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Missouri Prisoners Losing Reentry Money to “Incarceration Reimbursement” by A little-known Missouri law allows the state to confiscate money from prisoners to pay for the costs of their incarceration. That alone is sadly not unusual; most states have some sort of “pay-to-stay” policy. But the severity of such laws—and how …
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