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Ninth Circuit Reinstates Religious Exercise Claim from Arizona “Christian-Israelite” Prisoner Denied Passover Meal by Michael Thompson In 2017, a prisoner describing himself as a “Christian-Israelite” was denied access to his Arizona prison’s Passover meal after the unit chaplain challenged his religious beliefs. Michael Ray Fuqua was incarcerated at the Arizona …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Former Wisconsin Warden Gets No Cell Time, $500 Fine After Prisoner Deaths by Former Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Warden Randall Hepp took a deal before his sentencing on April 28, 2025, accepting a $500 fine in exchange for his no-contest plea to a misdemeanor charge of violating state and …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$7.75 Million Settlement for Exonerated North Carolina Prisoner by David M. Reutter The city of Durham, North Carolina agreed on May 20, 2024, to pay $7.75 million to resolve the wrongful conviction claim of exonerated prisoner Darryl Howard. He spent almost 24 years in prison before a federal jury agreed …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$13 Million Awarded to Exonerated Massachusetts Prisoner for Wrongful Conviction by David M. Reutter In November 2024, a Massachusetts jury awarded $13 million to former state prisoner Michael Sullivan, 64, as compensation for his wrongful conviction for a 1986 armed robbery and murder. Sullivan’s case involved false laboratory test results, …
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 …
News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Eighth Circuit Excuses Missouri Prisoner’s Failure to Exhaust Remedies While He Was In a Coma by Douglas Ankney On November 15, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated a deliberate indifference claim lodged by Missouri prisoner Tremonti Perry, whose alleged medical neglect left him in a …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Death Row
Idaho Spent $200,000 on Execution Drugs Now Expired by Since 2023, the Idaho Department of Correction has spent $200,000 in purchasing lethal injection chemicals. Because of prisoner appeals and other delays, however, those drugs have now expired, amounting to a complete waste of taxpayer money. Although Idaho passed a bill …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Retired California Prison Guard Killed in Colorado Jail by A complaint filed in federal court for the District of Colorado on March 26, 2025, accused guards at the Huerfano County Jail of needlessly assaulting a detainee suffering a mental health crisis and then ignoring him for another week as he …
$52,500 for Trans Florida Prisoner Sexually Assaulted by Cellmate by Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Joseph “Joey” Luzier III, a transgender woman, was housed at the Tomoka Correctional Institution, a men’s facility, when on August 25, 2020, she was placed in a cell with Rene Valentin Rivas—a registered sexual …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff by Boris Bastidas On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Italy Begins Conjugal Visits in Prison “Sex Rooms” by Joining other western European nations, Italy began permitting prisoners to have conjugal visits on April 18, 2025. Officials did not identify the prisoner making inaugural use of the newly constructed “sex room” at his prison in the Umbrian town of Terni. …
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 …
$500,000 for Colorado Detainee Dropped On His Face by Jailers by Douglas Ankney In a settlement agreement dated May 28, 2024, Colorado’s Jefferson County agreed to pay $500,000 to Frederick Fisk, a former detainee at the county jail who suffered substantial injuries to his face after guards used a jujitsu …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Capital Punishment
Second South Carolina Prisoner Executed by Firing Squad by A South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) firing squad executed state prisoner Mikal Mahdi on April 11, 2025. It was the state’s second execution conducted by shooting a prisoner to death. In the first, five weeks earlier, a DOC rifle squad …
Academic Study of Prison Guards’ Use of Excessive Force Details Sad State of Civil Rights for Abused Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In a research paper published on October 15, 2024, UCLA law professor Sharon Dolovich examined the state of civil rights law regarding excessive use of force by American prison …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former Jail Guard Accused of Having Sex with Detainee Now Vice-Chair of Florida GOP by The newly installed vice-chair of Florida’s Republican Party was previously convicted of providing contraband to a detainee he was accused of having sex with while working as a jail guard, according to reporting by Fresh …
Ninth Circuit Revives Complaint Over Sloppy Cell Checks Before Psychotic Detainee’s Death at L.A. Jail by Douglas Ankney On October 17, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that 26 cell checks performed within 13 hours by six Los Angeles County jailers who nevertheless failed to …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Kansas Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Loss of Parental Rights by Matthew Clarke On September 6, 2024, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that a prisoner’s due process rights were violated when he was able only to observe his parental rights termination hearing via videoconferencing and was unable to …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Arkansas DOC Settles Retaliation Claim by Prisoner Who Also Won Back Confiscated COVID-19 Stimulus by After the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) reached a settlement with state prisoner Anthony Lamar in his retaliation claim against officials at the Varner Unit, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas granted …
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