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Wellpath Sanctioned for Discovery Violation in Suit Over Kentucky Prisoner’s Death by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Private prison and jail medical provider Wellpath, LLC has announced a plan to exit bankruptcy proceedings, as reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, May 2025, p.56.] The plan offers some relief to …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Oregon DOC Replaces Top Medical Staffers Amid Turmoil by On February 25, 2025, less than half of the physician positions budgeted for the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) were staffed. Ten doctors had resigned, been fired or put on leave in the previous year. The decimation of the physician workforce …
Pittsburgh Lockup Accounts for 43% of Pennsylvania Jail TASER Use, Suit Filed by According to an investigative report published on January 30, 2025, guards at Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) accounted for nearly half of all use of taser weapons on detainees and prisoners in Pennsylvania. That revelation followed a …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare” by When Lucas John Bellamy, 41, was booked into jail in Minnesota’s Hennepin County on July 18, 2022, he informed staff that he had swallowed a bag of drugs shortly before his arrest. He was taken to a hospital, where …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Eleventh Circuit Revives Volunteer Pastor’s First Amendment Claim at Georgia Jail by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A volunteer minister took a dustup with Georgia jailers over baptism to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which agreed on September 16, 2024, that he had been subjected …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
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Florida’s “Pay to Stay” Law: A Second Sentence for Former Prisoners by A month before Florida lawmakers were set to end their most recent session on May 2, 2025, there was no effort to revive House Bill (HB) 1111, or its companion Senate Bill (SB) 1310—twin measures that would amend …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Studies Link Incarceration with Lower Cancer Survival Rates—For Prisoner’s Partners, Too by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Two recent studies highlight decreased cancer survival rates for those who’ve been incarcerated and their partners, too. The studies effectively connect abysmal prison healthcare to the lack of access to cancer screenings …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wait for Competency Restoration Averages 14 Months in Missouri Jails by By late January 2025, a critical shortage of providers had stranded 418 detainees waiting for competency restoration in Missouri jails an average of 14 months each. The number wait-listed for the services had jumped from 300 a year earlier, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Virginia Bribes Prisoners Not to Set Themselves On Fire by At Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, a new “Inmate Safety Agreement” uncovered through a public records request on February 9, 2025, revealed that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has offered incentives like a quarterly fish fry to prisoners for …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$18,000 for New York Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Planted Shank in Cell by On July 8, 2024, New York prisoner Kerry Kotler finally achieved a small measure of justice from the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) officials whom he accused of planting incriminating evidence in his cell …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Missouri Pays More Than $1.2 Million for Deputy Warden’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Warden by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney For subjecting him to sexual harassment, the state of Missouri paid a jury award of more than $1.2 million in damages, plus legal fees and costs to former Kansas City …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Third Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Pennsylvania DOC in Prisoner’s Challenge to 26 Years of Solitary Confinement by On September 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found “no room for doubt” that a mentally-ill Pennsylvania prisoner has a basic constitutional right not to be …
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 …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
ACLU Sues BOP Over Failure to Implement First Step Act Release Credits by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in federal court for the District of Columbia on December 20, 2024, challenging the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for treating sentence credits …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards by Legal costs and fees awarded on January 6, 2025, nearly tripled a $100,000 jury verdict for New York state prisoner Crushaun Hundley in his retaliation claim against a pair of Elmira Correctional Facility guards. The U.S. Court of …
New York Guards Indicted for Prisoner’s Murder by Two New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards were charged with murder on April 16, 2025, in the death of prisoner Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility. The mentally ill 22-year-old was sobbing in a shower where he was …
Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed dismissal of Connecticut prisoner’s complaint over an assault he suffered in a Virginia lockup where …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Crackdown On Pro-Palestinian Dissent Nabs New York Professor Who Found Link Between Cars and Incarceration by One of two New York University (NYU) tenured faculty members barred from parts of its campus in December 2024 is a sociologist who has documented a link between the proliferation of American car culture …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Plans to Hold Migrants at Gitmo Hit Snag by Struggling to keep a campaign promise to deport “millions” of migrants, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) announced shortly after his January 2025 inauguration the construction of new detention space for 30,000 people at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
20 Charged in Nevada Prison Brawl That Left Three Dead by The last of 20 arrests was made on March 5, 2025, of Nevada state prisoners accused in a brawl that left three fellow prisoners dead at Ely State Prison. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) said at the time …
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