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Biden Commutes 31 Federal Drug Sentences by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On April 29, 2023, Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) reduced the federal prison sentences of 31 people, each serving time on home confinement for nonviolent drug-related convictions. The commutation of sentences was one component of a strategy …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
BOP Closes Deadliest Unit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On February 14, 2023, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it was closing Special Management Unit (SMU) at the U.S. Penitentiary (USP) in Thomson, Illinois, where seven deaths have been recorded since it opened in 2019, the highest death …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Fourth Circuit Revives Virginia Prisoner’s Challenge to DOC Policy Restricting His Religious Headwear by Douglas Ankney   by Douglas Ankney On November 7, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that a district court erred in finding that Virginia prisoner David A. Richardson failed to present …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Ohio Governor Reprieves Three Condemned Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Ohio prisoners James O’Neal, Jerome Henderson and Melvin Bonnell were all scheduled to die by lethal injection between August and October 2023. However, on April 14, 2023, Gov. Mike Dewine (R) delayed each execution over two years. DeWine …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Connecticut GOP Lawmakers Force Governor to Replace Pardon Board Chair, Stopping All Commutation Hearings by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi A spate of Connecticut commutations in 2022 didn’t come close to resolving the backlog in applications, only one of which had been granted in two years. But it piqued the …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Rural Prisons
Flooding Causes Evacuation of 1,075 Detainees from California Jail by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On New Year’s Day January 2023, as storms swelled California’s Cosumnes River near Sacramento, officials at the county’s Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (RCCC) evacuated all 1,075 detainees, as well as all staff, to other nearby …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Education, halfway houses
California College Offers Housing, Services to Formally Incarcerated Students by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders For decades, prisoners were not eligible for federal financial aid for college education. So when Congress passed the Second Chance Act in 2020, rescinding ineligibility for felons and prisoners to access federal Pell Grant funding …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty
SCOTUS Orders Last-Minute Stay of Execution for Oklahoma Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip by In a surprising turn of events, the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) granted a stay of execution to condemned Oklahoma prisoner Richard Glossip on May 5, 2023. The decision marks the ninth time Glossip, 60, …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Prison Looks Different for Two Celebrity Women by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On May 30, 2023, over a year after her felony conviction for fraud and conspiracy, Elizabeth Holmes, 39, founder of bogus and bankrupt blood-test maker Theranos, arrived at her home for the next 11 years: the Federal …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Second Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to N.Y. Prison Official Who Imposed Post-Release Supervision on Prisoner – But Reverses Damages Award by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held it was not error to deny qualified …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violations After Stonewalling in Prisoner Lawsuits by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A review of court records by PLN has found repeated sanctions for discovery violations against private prison healthcare provider Wellpath in suits across the country blaming the firm’s dismal care for prisoner deaths – …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Ohio Supreme Court Grants State Prisoner Another $1,000 for Denied Records by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  On March 15, 2023, the Ohio Supreme Court partially granted a writ of mandamus brought by a state prisoner, ordering Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Pavan Parikh to produce copies of court documents …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault
Four Month Prison Term for BOP Compliance Monitor in Miami Who Sexually Abused Prisoner on His Case Load by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On April 14, 2023, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola sentenced a federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) site supervisor in Miami to four months …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Missouri Prisoner Illegally Condemned by Illiterate Juror Executed Anyway by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Depending on who’s telling the story, Missouri prisoner Michael Tisius, 42, got either what he deserved or the last in a long line of bad breaks when he was executed on June 6, 2023, hours …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Fourth Circuit: Federal Prisoner in North Carolina Making Rehabilitation Act Claim Must Exhaust Both BOP Grievance Process and Justice Department’s EEO Complaint Process by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit raised the high bar a prisoner must …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Former Illinois Guards Sentenced for Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On March 16, 2023, Judge Sue Myerscough of the federal court for the Central District of Illinois sentenced former state prison guards Alex Banta, 31, and Todd Sheffler, 54, to 20 years in prison for the …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
New Report Pats BOP on the Back for Addressing Problems With Restrictive Housing, PREA by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In February 2023, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) published a surprisingly positive assessment of restrictive housing and sex abuse in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) – the same …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Fifth Circuit Kills Suit by Louisiana Prisoners Whose Release Dates Were Incorrectly Calculated by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to James LeBlanc, Secretary of the Louisiana …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Idaho Revives Firing Squads by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On March 24, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed HB 186, making his the fifth state to adopt a firing squad as a means of execution. Taking effect July 1, 2023, the law allows the state Department of …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
$30,000 Paid by Michigan to Prisoner Wrongfully Classified as Sex Offender by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 6, 2023, a Michigan prisoner dismissed his complaint against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) after agreeing to accept $30,000 to settle claims that he suffered the “stigmatizing …
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