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Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Dying Mississippi Prisoner Wins Preservation Testimony in Suit Blaming Terminal Cancer on Exposure to Janitorial Chemicals by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Susie Annie Balfour, who spent 33 years incarcerated at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) before her 2021 release, died on August 5, 2025, the victim of metastatic breast …
Missouri Blocks Spiritual Advisors from Prison Pastor’s Execution by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 14, 2025, at around 6 p.m. in the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, Lance Shockley, 48, was executed by lethal injection after Governor Mike Kehoe (R) denied him clemency. The state …
SCOTUS Overturns Oklahoma Prisoner’s Death Sentence After More than 25 Years on Death Row by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 25, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) reversed Oklahoma prisoner Richard Eugene Glossip’s death sentence. This is the second time a death sentence imposed upon …
Federal Injunction Bars ICE from Crowding Detainees in Unsanitary “Hold” Rooms in New York City Office by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Blocked from seeing attorneys. Left to sleep on the floor under blazing lights. Sharing a 215-square-foot cell with 89 others. Women forced to menstruate without pads and wear …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
North Carolina Prison Officials Run Out the Clock On Trans Prisoner’s Vulvoplasty by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Even as some states successfully move to strip hormone therapy and other gender-related care from trans prisoners, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina twice ruled against state …
Seventh Circuit Dismisses Jail Detainee Suicide Case for Lack of Showing Deliberate Indifference by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso On July 29, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case brought against a Wisconsin county jail relating to a detainee’s suicide, …
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Prisoner’s Eligibility for Time Credits by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a prisoner must have been convicted of the death-resulting enhancement element of 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(C) before that enhancement may be applied …
$150,000 Paid by Jacksonville for Mother of Five’s Jail Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under an agreement filed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 10, 2025, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters agreed to pay $150,000 to the Estate of Esther Truax, a …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Ordered to Provide Programming for Pregnant Prisoners—34 Years After Law Was Passed by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was ordered on February 25, 2025, to immediately implement policy changes placing pregnant prisoners in the least restrictive environment possible, as well as allowing them …
While Mentally Ill Rikers Island Detainee Lay Dying, Staff Sprayed Air Freshener, Fudged Cell Checks by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Surveillance video from New York City’s Rikers Island jail captured staffers flouting policy and ignoring detainee Ardit Billa, 29, as he lay dying in a cell in August 2025, …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
$1.8 Million Settlement Reached Following CDCR Data Breach by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In January 2022, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) reported that unidentified hackers breached its computer systems, exposing sensitive information of some 236,000 state prisoners and parolees. On April 25, 2025, a Sacramento state …
For Delay in Summoning Medical Care for Detainees, Alabama Jailers Granted Immunity But California Trooper Headed to Trial by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Two federal appeals courts recently considered cases involving delays in summoning care for detainees in medical distress. In one, the Administrator of Alabama’s Clarke County Jail …
Securus Loses Bid to Dismiss HRDC Price-Fixing Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 11, 2025, Securus Technologies was denied a motion to dismiss claims filed against the prison telecom giant and its JPay subsidiary, alleging they colluded with competitor Global*Tel Link (GTL), now known as ViaPath Technologies, …
$2.4 Million Paid to Indiana Prisoners Sickened With Legionnaire’s Disease by Contaminated Water by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a letter dated September 10, 2025, attorneys for a group of more than 500 prisoners at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility announced a $2.4 million settlement of claims arising from an …
Seventh Circuit Rules Against Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Claim Over Wexford Health’s Poor Psychiatric Care by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Cordell Sanders spent eight years in segregation housing at the Pontiac Center in Indiana after committing multiple disciplinary offenses. While being held apart from others, he suffered from severe mental …
CoreCivic Pays $82,500 for First COVID-19 Death at San Diego ICE Lockup by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman   Back in January 2020, Carlos Escobar Mejia, 57, was in a car in San Diego when he was pulled over by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents. Though he …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Work Conditions/Safety
Body-Worn Camera Program for Guards Expands to all Maryland Prisons by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Expanding on a pilot program begun in February 2025, Maryland lawmakers have moved to require a body-worn camera (BWC) for use by all guards in the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services …
Jailhouse Lawyer Gets 16-1/2-Year Sentence for Defrauding Prisoner “Clients” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Admitting to a federal judge that he “made some mistakes,” a self-described jailhouse lawyer said that one mistake “was being overly optimistic on a few occasions and sharing that optimism with clients.” But since he …
Federal Government, CoreCivic Slow-Walk Class-Action Challenges to Forced Labor of ICE Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Two legal challenges to forced labor for minimal or no pay, which were mounted by detainees held for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), were gaining steam when Pres. Donald J. Trump …
Brief • October 30, 2025
Filed under: Criminal Sexual Abuse
J.M. V. USA, CA, Complaint, Sexual Assault and Battery, 2025 Case 1:25-at-01011 Document 1 Filed 10/30/25 Page 1 of 50 1 2 CO ELLY - - LAWOFF I Es.- - 3 4 5 Colin G. Prince John B. McEntire, IV 2301 North 30th Street Tacoma, Washington 98403 253.593.5100 Attorneys for …
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