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North Carolina Parole Commission Agrees to Stop “Moving Goalposts” for Prisoners Who Committed Crime as Juveniles by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A settlement reached on September 15, 2025, moved the North Carolina Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission a step closer to finally realizing changes that it was ordered to …
D.C. Federal Court Holds Blocking Prison Reform Advocate’s Access to Federal Prisoners May Violate First Amendment and Due Process by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government’s motion to dismiss with respect to due process …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Killings Inside Mississippi’s Prisons Continue Unabated But Report Prompts DOC to Reopen Investigations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney With at least 42 people killed inside Mississippi’s prisons over the last decade, multiple families are wondering why the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC) cannot protect people in its custody or …
Dissenter Excoriates SCOTUS for Denying Certiorari in Challenge to Constitutionality of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denied certiorari in a federal civil rights action challenging Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia for executions. Justice Sonia …
$2 Million Settlement Reached for 12-Year-Old’s Gang Rape in Detroit Juvenile Detention Center by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 26, 2025, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Wayne County agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims brought by the mother of a former …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
FCC Releases Final Version of Order Gutting 2024 Phone Cap Regulations by Michael Thompson   by Michael Thompson   As reported in PLN, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had postponed a 2024 rule poised to reduce the financial burden for incarcerated people throughout the country. [See: PLN, Aug. 2025, p. …
Los Angeles County Restricts Opioid Treatment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Amid a lawsuit from the California Attorney General’s office over inhumane conditions, including preventable deaths such as opioid overdoses, Los Angeles County has modified its policy and is scaling back access to opioid treatment. The announcement of the …
Escape from Georgia Jail Ends in Florida after Lyft Hijacking by Jo Ellen Nott   by Jo Ellen Knott   In escape from Georgia’s DeKalb County Jail concluded in Florida on December 23, 2025, following a multi-state manhunt, according to The Guardian. Stevenson Charles, 24, Yusuf Minor, 31, and Naod …
Michigan Claws Back $1.2 Million Paid to Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a decision that upheld a lower court ruling, the Michigan Court of Appeals said on December 22, 2025, that exonerated former state prisoner Desmond Ricks must use a $7.5 million settlement from …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright As long as there have been prisons, the people who run them have endeavored to keep prisoners as ignorant, ill informed and cut off from the outside world as possible. At the same time, those in charge aim to ensure that …
Three Prisoners Killed in Fight at Georgia Prison by On January 12, 2026, three prisoners were killed after a fight broke out at the Washington State Prison, a medium-security facility in Davisboro, Georgia, which is around 135 miles south of Atlanta. A guard and 12 other prisoners were also injured …
Punished for Bleeding: How Periods in Prison Become a Trap by Candace Norwood by Candace Norwood, The 19th This article was originally published by The 19th, an independent nonprofit newsroom “reporting on gender, politics, policy, and power.”   The tampons were stacked and bound together with a rubber band. The …
Federal Court Strikes Much of Virginia’s Felony Voting Restriction by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 22, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found the state’s felony disenfranchisement law ran afoul of the power granted by Congress when the state was readmitted to the …
Georgia Grand Jury Dings Augusta Jail for Overcrowding Days Before Violent Detainee Assault by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 16, 2025, a grand jury in Georgia’s Richmond County reported that its inspection of the County jail revealed serious overcrowding, with mattresses on the floor pressing many cells into …
Tenth Circuit Reverses Summary Dismissal of Claim Over Prisoner’s Suicide in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 26, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the summary dismissal of a failure-to-train claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit over the suicide …
Alabama and Wexford Health Pay Undisclosed Settlement for Delays Costing Prisoner Partial Foot Amputation by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on January 26, 2026, state prisoner Joseph Allen Renney said that he had reached agreements with …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Ninth Circuit: Notice of Appeal of Order Denying Qualified Immunity Must Be Filed Within 30 Days of Entry by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that 28 U.S.C. section 2107(a) requires that a notice of appeal of …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Two Mississippi Prisons Lose Power During Winter Storm by The record-setting winter storm in January 2026 that brought freezing temperatures and snowfall to large swathes of the Eastern half of the country left at least 17 people dead and nearly a million without power. Much like the deep freeze that …
New York State Prisons Turning Away Visitors with Tampons After Scan by Since March 2025, when New York’s state prison agency began requiring visitors to pass through scanners before visiting their loved ones, attorneys, advocates, and lawmakers have heard stories of people getting turned away for things like piercings or …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Oklahoma Prisoner Who Escaped Through Hole Killed by Sheriff by Joshua Butler—a prisoner serving a life sentence who escaped from the Okfuskee County Jail in Okemah, Oklahoma—was shot and killed by state troopers during a traffic stop on December 31, 2025. Butler had escaped on December 20, but none of …
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