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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 …
Shadow Prisons: How Civil Commitment Leads to Longer Confinement by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman At the center of mass incarceration in the United States is a deeply troubling fact: More than two of every five people locked up have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. With nearly two million …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
News in Brief by California: A suit filed in state Superior Court for San Francisco County on December 1, 2025, accuses the New York Post and Los Angeles Times of defaming Nima Momeni, 41, while he was detained in the County’s San Bruno jail before his December 2024 murder trial. …
Class Certified in Challenge to Mailed Book Ban at Indianapolis Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted class certification to a complaint filed against the Marion County Sheriff, alleging that there is a de facto …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The month before Prison Legal News published its first issue in May 1990, the Washington legislature became the first to enact civil commitment and sex offender registration in response to a series of horrific sex crimes by repeat offenders. We have …
Brief • December 31, 2025
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
State of Tennessee DOC and GTL Contract 01-01-23 to 12-31-2025 Part 1 NASPO/STATE OF NEVADA MASTER AGREEMENT Master Agreement Number: Solicitation Number: 99SWC-S1154 Title: Inmate Communications Government Entity: State of Nevada, Department of Administration, Purchasing Division Address: 515 E Mussel' St, Ste 300 City, State, Zip Code: Carson City, NV …
Brief • December 31, 2025
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
State of Tennessee DOC and GTL Contract 01-01-23 to 12-31-2025 Part 2 STATE OF NEVADA COOPERATIV E CONTRA CT ATTACHMENT E SCOPE OF WORK Inmate Co mmunications SOI/', \ Revised: September 2022 Page 16 of 17 Cooperali ve Contract SCOPE OF WORK Category 2: Inmate Kiosks and Tablets Category 3: …
Publication • December 2, 2025
Department of Justice-National PREA Standards Alignment With Executive Order, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Washington , D.C. 20531 MEMORANDUM TO: All DOJ-certified PREA Auditors FROM: Tammie M. Gregg Principal Deputy Director Bureau of Justice Assistance SUBJECT: National PREA Standards Alignment with Executive …
Mississippi Legislator Blasts VitalCore, DOC for Shoddy Prison Healthcare by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman “We’re spending millions on prison health care,” Mississippi House Corrections Committee Chairwoman Becky Currie (R-­Brookhaven) told Mississippi Today, “and we’re not getting any.” That charge was made on the news outlet’s political podcast, The Other …
Disabled Prisoner Who Won $1.85 Million After Fall in Chicago Jail Secures Class Certification for Separate ADA Challenge to Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman  On September 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted class certification to a complaint filed by disabled …
Arkansas “Jailhouse Attorney” Secures Return from Retaliatory Transfer Out of State by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a settlement reached on October 22, 2025, the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to repatriate a state prisoner shipped to a federal lockup in West Virginia, restoring his job upon return …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This is the last issue of Prison Legal News (PLN) for 2025. It has been an eventful year all the way around. Two years ago, no one thought a convicted felon would be elected president of the United States, much less …
Over $222,000 in Legal Costs and Fees Awarded to HRDC in Florida Records Suit Against Centurion by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman After securing an order for the release of settlement records from Centurion of Florida in a state prisoner’s death, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), nonprofit publisher of …
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