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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
West Virginia Prison Chief Tapped to Helm BOP by On April 10, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) announced his pick to assume control of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP): William K. “Billy” Marshall III, Commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). The BOP has …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors by The death of a woman during a conjugal visit with her husband incarcerated at California’s Mule Creek State Prison was ruled a homicide by the Coroner’s Bureau of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) on March 17, 2025. David Brinson, 54, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Medical Copays Blamed for Reducing Prisoner Access to Healthcare by A report published by the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) on September 6, 2024, found an inverse relationship between medical copays imposed on prisoners and their access to healthcare. That is, those incarcerated in lockups charging higher copays were less …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department by On March 11, 2025, the federal Department of Education (ED) announced the purge of nearly half of its employees, leaving students reliant on federally insured student loans facing processing delays and potentially predatory loan servicers now unshackled from …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Maryland Targets Highest-in-Nation Racial Incarceration Gap by Black Marylanders make up 30% of the state’s population but 71% of those in its prisons, the nation’s highest racial incarceration gap. To address that imbalance, state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown (D) helped launch the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) in October …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wisconsin Prisoner Inhaled His Own Teeth in Fatal Beatdown by On January 8, 2025, Racine County Jail detainee Davonte Carraway, 29, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the brutal and fatal beating nine days earlier of state prisoner Joseph Lee, 35. Lee was found “stuffed into a garbage can” …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso At the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 22, 2024, a Louisiana prisoner defeated a claim of qualified immunity …
Brief • April 24, 2025
Lake v. CoreCivic, Inc.,MT, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2025 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 102 Filed 04/24/25 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STA TES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA GREAT FALLS DIVISION No. 4:21-CV-00116-BMM NATHANIEL LAKE, Plaintiff, VERDICT FORM v. CORECIVIC, INC. d/b/a CROSSROADS CORRECTIONAL CENTER, Defendant. We, …
Brief • April 10, 2025
Estate of Esther Truax v. Waters, FL, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:23-cv-01414-WWB-MCR Document 40-1 Filed 04/10/25 EXHIBIT 1 Page 1 of 3 PageID 140 Case 3:23-cv-01414-WWB-MCR Document 40-1 Filed 04/10/25 Page 2 of 3 PageID 141 COMPLETE RELEASE STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF DUVAL WHEREAS, the undersigned, NANCY SIMMERSON, …
Brief • April 9, 2025
Estate of Jackson Maes v. Board of County Commissioners of the County of Saguache, CO, Verdict Form, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case No. 1:21-cv-00628-NYW-NRN Document 329 pg 1 of 4 filed 04/09/25 USDC Colorado IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 21-cv-00628-NYW-NRN SARAH LIEBERENZ, …
In-the-News Article • April 7, 2025
Appeals Court upholds $259,350 fee award against Baxter County Jail for mail policy that ‘changed on a whim April 7, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation Mountain Home Observer The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Baxter County’s jail mail policy violated the First …
Brief • April 4, 2025
Filed under: Failure to Treat
Estate of Jacob Mitchell v. Pend Orielle County, WA, Complaint, Failure to Provide Medical Care, 2025 Case 2:25-cv-00108 1 2 3 4 5 6 ECF No. 1 filed 04/04/25 PageID.1 Page 1 of 19 Tim Ford, WSBA #5986 Braden Pence, WSBA #43495 Lauren I. Freidenberg-McBride WSBA #29186 MacDonald Hoague & …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Deaths, Deplorable Conditions, Staff Misconduct Plague Memphis Jail by Memphis, the largest city in Tennessee’s Shelby County, is known for several things. Elvis Presley’s former residence, Graceland, is a popular tourist attraction, as are bars and nightlife attractions on Beale Street, the epicenter of world-renowned jazz and blues music. The …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Tucson Program Slashes Pretrial Misdemeanor Incarceration by Writing to the Board of Supervisors of Arizona’s Pima County on November 7, 2024, County Administrator Jan Lesher reported striking results from first-year operations of its Transition Center in Tucson: Since it opened in September 2023, the share of those held at the …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Tenth Circuit Stretches PLRA to Deny Claim of Colorado Prisoner Shot by Guard While Shackled by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a maddening decision issued on July 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit managed to dismiss the excessive-force claim of a Colorado prisoner …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
A Song for Condemned Alabama Prisoner by He shot the cop. Or his co-defendant did. Or he did it, but with another uncharged codefendant. Alabama prosecutors used all three theories to try Toforest Johnson and co-defendant Ardargus Ford for the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Sheriff’s Dep. William Hardy at …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Socio-Economic Status
Jailing the Homeless: New Data Shed Light on Unhoused People in Local Jails by Leah Wang by Leah Wang Our analysis of Jail Data Initiative data confirms the troubling practice of shuffling unhoused people into jails, at enormous moral and fiscal cost. Local jails, which hold one out of every …
Three More Prisoners Die, Three More Staffers Fired at Wisconsin Prison by At Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution, 11 staffers have now been fired or resigned in the wake of a federal probe sparked by a spate of prisoner deaths that has now reached a total of seven in just two …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Ninth Circuit: No Exception to Due Diligence in Discovery Even for “Conclusive Evidence” by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On August 27, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a $500,000 jury award for a Los Angeles Lakers basketball fan shot with a rubber …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Alabama Governor Commutes Death Sentence by For only the second time in over 25 years, an Alabama governor commuted a state prisoner’s death sentence on February 28, 2025. Gov. Kay Ivey (R) took Robin “Rocky” Dion Myers, 63, off death row at Holman Correctional Facility, so he will now spend …
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