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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: State Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Arianna Kimberly Slater faces life in prison after she was arrested while attempting to smuggle contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility on February 24, 2025. According to the Birmingham News, a routine employee screening of Slater’s food container found unspecified …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
TDCJ to Run Out of Beds in 2025 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Sunset Advisory Commission, an oversight body for Texas government agencies, published a 189-page report in September 2024 that found persistent critical staffing shortages are making Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisons unsafe for staff …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Little-Known Law Allows Some Texas Prisoners to Vote by Texas has an estimated 455,000 current and former felons. But no one knows if any of them voted in the November 2024 elections, nor even if any knew that they could. That is thanks to a little-known provision of state law …
CoreCivic Will Cage Migrant Families in Texas Lockup by On March 5, 2025, private prison operator CoreCivic, Inc. announced a new contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reopen its South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. The massive 2,400-bed prison was used to detain migrant families …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Houston Jail Cited for State-Law Violations Twice in a Month by For the second time in less than a month, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) cited the Harris County Jail in Houston on January 13, 2025, this time for failing to conduct state-mandated “face to face observations” before …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Tiede v. Collier, TX, Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2025 Case 1:23-cv-01004-RP Document 202 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 91 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION BERNHARDT TIEDE, II; TEXAS PRISONS COMMUNITY ADVOCATES; BUILD UP, INC. a/k/a JUSTICE IMPACTED WOMEN’S ALLIANCE; TEXAS CITIZENS …
Filing • March 13, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Stipulated Oder for Permanent Injunction, Censorship, 2025 Case 4:24-cv-00828-ALM Document 31 Filed 03/13/25 Page 1 of 4 PageID #: 503 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. CIVIL ACTION NO. 4:24-cv-00828-ALM GRAYSON …
Brief • March 13, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Stipulated Oder for Permanent Injunction, Censorship, 2025 Case 4:24-cv-00828-ALM Document 31 Filed 03/13/25 Page 1 of 4 PageID #: 503 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. CIVIL ACTION NO. 4:24-cv-00828-ALM GRAYSON …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Houston Police Fire Former Jail Guard Filmed Brutalizing Detainees, Charges Against Three Other Guards Dropped by The Houston Police Department (HPD) fired Off. Deven Ortiz on January 7, 2025, following an investigation into multiple alleged uses of excessive force while he worked as a guard at the Harris County Jail …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
“Lady al-Qaeda” Sues BOP for Guards’ Sexual Assaults by In a suit filed in federal court for the Northern District of Texas against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on September 19, 2024, Aafia Siddiqui, 52, a Pakistani national serving an 86-year sentence for a terrorism-related conviction at the Federal …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Number of Texas Detainees Jailed Out-of-County Doubled in Five Years by A June 2024 Texas Tribune analysis found that the number of detainees shipped to jails outside the county of their arrest had more than doubled in five years to a total of 4,358, up from 2,078 in June 2019. …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Presumption of Innocence Not Violated by Jail Courtroom by On November 20, 2024, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a lower appellate ruling that found holding a jury trial in a jail courtroom violated a defendant’s right to a presumption of innocence. The Court …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Fifth Circuit Revives Texas Prisoner’s Sleep Deprivation Claim—Again by Texas prisoner Michael Garrett has been fighting the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for a good night’s sleep since 2013. His case has twice gone before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, after the district court …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Long Wait List for Texas’ Only College-Level Re-Entry Class for Prisoners by As of November 26, 2024, more than 250 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoners were on the wait list for a re-entry class offered at nine state prisons near Huntsville by Lee Community College in Baytown. The …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuit Over Death or Severe Injury of 29 Houston Jail Detainees Survives Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of Texas refused a motion by Defendant Harris County Jail officials in Houston to fully dismiss claims made …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Texas Executioners Playing Fast and Furious to Obtain Lethal Drugs by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been buying a drug used to execute condemned prisoners from a compounding pharmacy with a history of safety violations, according to an investigation reported by NPR News on July 10, 2024. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Wellpath Declares Bankruptcy by On November 11, 2024, Wellpath Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated corporate entities filed for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is a private, for-profit medical and mental health care provider at approximately 420 detention facilities in 39 states; …
Suits Filed Over Dehydration Deaths at Two Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 9, 2024, the grandmother of a mentally ill detainee who died of dehydration at Texas’ Denton County Jail (DCJ) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing jail staff of deliberate indifference in allowing …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Wiregrass Daily News reported that Mobile Metro Jail guard Timothy Lee Scarbrough, 39, was arrested on September 9, 2024, and charged with first-degree sodomy for the alleged sexual assaulting of a detainee who was still under the effects of anesthesia after eye surgery. Scarbrough had …
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