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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 …
Most U.S. Prisoners Now Barred from Directly Receiving Physical Mail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In just over seven years, changes in prison mail policies proliferating across the country have severely restricted mail privileges at lockups holding the majority of America’s nearly 1.2 million prisoners. According to research conducted …
Amid ‘Catastrophic’ Shortage, Psychologists Flee Federal Prisons in Droves by Beth Schwartzapfel by Beth Schwartzapfel This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter at themarshallproject.org/subscribe and follow them on instagram.com/marshallproj, tiktok.com/@marshallproj, reddit.com/user/marshall_project, and facebook.com/TheMarshallProject.org. …
Delaware Settles Suit Over Depriving Young Prisoners of Special Education by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under a legal settlement approved on December 2, 2025, prisoners with learning disabilities held by the Delaware Department of Correction (DOC) moved several steps closer to receiving the educational instruction necessary to achieve a …
Competency Crisis in Missouri’s Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The cover story of the June 2025 issue of PLN reported that “[d]espite years of litigation, injunctions, consent decrees, and contempt fines ranging into the hundreds of millions,” the State of Washington had “consistently failed to provide timely competency …
Sixth Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over Failure to Properly Classify Violent Prisoners at Kentucky Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the guardian of a man who was severely …
Deportation of Kenyan Priest Working as Texas Prison Guard Highlights TDCJ’s Dependence on Immigrant Staff by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi, an Episcopal priest, was working as a prison guard in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) until federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Eleventh Circuit Holds Estate Cannot Sue Jailers Who Followed Medical Personnel Advice That Led to Detainee’s Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 1, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that jailers could not be held liable for the death of a …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Eleventh Circuit Holds Alabama County May Be Liable for Policy of Providing Inadequate Jail Medical Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 20, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama law making sheriffs responsible for jail prisoners’ health care did …
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