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Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
How I Learned to Transcribe Braille in Prison by Nathan Gray by Nathan Gray, Prison Journalism Project This story was originally published by Prison Journalism Project.   Many jobs in Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Correctional Institution consist of routine manual labor that helps the prison run: cooking, cleaning, laundering—that kind of thing. …
Chicago Pays Exonerated Prisoners $7.5 Million, Bringing Total to $33.75 Million for Wrongful Convictions by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The Chicago City Council voted on January 15, 2025, to pay $7.5 million to Clarissa Glenn and her husband, Ben Baker, who spent 10 years in state prison on drug …
$4 Million Paid to Former Rikers Island Detainee Whose Reports of Repeated Rapes Were Ignored by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On October 29, 2025, the City of New York authorized three payouts totaling $4 million to Terrence Rodgers, 32, a former detainee in the City’s Rikers Island jail complex, …
Soaring Medical Costs in Washington Jails by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Jails within Washington state are finding it increasingly difficult to arrange medical providers. In one example, when Kitsap County recently put out a request for a medical provider, only their current provider responded, Everhealth LLC, a subsidiary of …
The DOJ Orders Prison Inspectors to Drop LGBTQ+ Protections by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ prisoners from sexual violence. An internal memo, dated to December 2, 2025, stated that “effective immediately” prisons and jails will no longer face penalties for violating …
New York City Jails Face Mounting Death Toll Ahead of Likely Receivership by On November 26, 2025, New York Daily News reported that the families of two men who died in New York City custody within two days have filed notices of intent to sue the city, alleging gross neglect …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Oklahoma DOC Refuses to Publicly Release Body Camera Footage by Despite spending millions to give guards body cameras, Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections (DOC) will not release footage from the devices to the public. As reported by Oklahoma Watch, the DOC claims that footage recorded within a facility would threaten security …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Wisconsin DOC Is Not Tracking Work Release Data by Most jobs within Wisconsin prisons are paid in cents as minimum wage laws don’t apply in lockups. But the state also has work release programs that allow certain prisoners to earn a rate that’s the same as non-­incarcerated employees. Unfortunately, as …
Arkansas Guards Can Now Work as Immigration Enforcers by On December 2, 2025, the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) signed a Memoranda of Agreement (MOA), also known as 287(g) agreements, with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allowing the federal agency to train guards and give them the power …
Massive $112 Million Jury Verdict for Detainees Held in New York Jail Past Release Date on ICE Detainers by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On November 10, 2025, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York returned a $112 million verdict in favor of …
$450,000 Paid by Missouri County for Jail Detainee’s Death After 11 Days Without Medical Attention by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Relatives of a Missouri jail detainee who became nonverbal and fatally ill—while fellow detainees pleaded in vain with jailers to get him medical help—accepted a $450,000 settlement of their …
Ninth Circuit Hands Partial Victory to NaphCare, Remanding Much of $27 Million Jury Verdict in Washington Jail Death Case by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a $24 million punitive damages award against NaphCare for a Washington …
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 …
Study Finds Parole Hearings and Grants Continue to Fall by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In the “tough-­on-­crime” years that closed out the last century, parole was eliminated in many states, as well as the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). But as the U.S. Supreme Court noted most recently in …
New York City Mayor’s Order Opening Rikers Island to ICE Declared Illegal by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman An executive order (EO) issued by then-New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), allowing agents of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into the city’s Rikers Island jail complex, was declared illegal …
$404,000 Verdict for Ohio Prisoner Brutalized by Trio of Guards, Kept in Solitary for Two Years by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 12, 2025, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio returned a verdict awarding $404,000 in damages to state prisoner Tommy …
Exonerated Former Prisoner Wins Election for Chief Record Keeper in New Orleans by On November 15, 2025, a man who was once serving a life sentence for murder was elected as the chief record keeper for New Orlean’s criminal court. Calvin Duncan, 62, spent 28 years in prison before winning …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
2025 Was a Deadly Year for Veterans Behind Bars by With the number of executions nearly doubling from 2024 to 2025, this year was especially deadly for military veterans on death row, according to a new report published by the Death Penalty Information Center. Throughout 2025, ten veterans were executed, …
$200,000 for Detainee Thrown in “Rollover” Solitary Without Food or Water at Minnesota Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Ramsey Kettle, now 34, is a member of the White Earth Nation with a diagnosed serious mental illness (SMI). Yet when he arrived at Minnesota’s Otter Tail County Jail in …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
$4,652 for Jewish Nevada Prisoner Denied Passover Meal by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On July 29, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada granted dismissal to a suit filed by state prisoner Thomas Burdsal, 62, after he agreed to accept a $4,652 payment from the state …
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