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DOJ Leaves Louisiana Over-Detention Suit on Life Support, Two Others Granted Class-Action Status by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A prison case filed in Louisiana by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has languished since new leadership was appointed in January 2025 by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R). Filed by the …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
$4 Million Settlement Reached in Class Action Challenge to Conditions at Shuttered St. Louis “Workhouse” Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman It sounded like a jail from a 19th century novel: “infestations of insects, spiders and rodents”; “extreme and dangerous heat and humidity” in warm weather; exposure to “extreme …
Fifth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Suit by Civilly Committed Texan by Matthew Clarke   by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a Texas civil rights lawsuit challenging conditions of confinement at the Texas Civil Commitment Center …
California’s Attorney General Is Suing Los Angeles County Jails Over “Inhumane Conditions” by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In a remarkable 78-page complaint stemming from a four-year investigation, the California Attorney General’s office has sued Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, et al. over the harsh and …
Eighth Circuit Orders Preliminary Injunction Requiring Minnesota to Reinstate Program Teaching Biblical “Authentic Manhood” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered the issuance of a preliminary injunction compelling the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) to reinstate …
Fifth Circuit Remands Louisiana Detainee’s Medical Grievance Case by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2022, Stephen James was being held in the St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Jail while awaiting his trial. At his intake interview, he notified the medical staff of the prosthetic eye he had possessed for 55 …
Appeals Court Allows Illinois Prisoner’s Suit for Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled on December 23, 2024 that a district court erred in dismissing, without a hearing, prisoner-plaintiff Henry Jones’s 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint …
Former Prisoners’ Challenge to Virginia Constitution’s Felony Disenfranchisement Clause Allowed to Proceed by Douglas Ankney   by Douglas Ankney   On December 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed an order of the district court permitting Plaintiffs Tati Abu King and Toni Heath Johnson (collectively …
The Last Escaped Detainee from the New Orleans Jail Was Arrested in an Atlanta Crawlspace by Derrick Groves, the last of the 10 detainees who escaped from a New Orleans, Louisiana jail in May of this year, was captured five months later, on October 15. Groves, 28, was found hiding …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Sixth Circuit Clarifies What Constitutes PLRA “Strike” and Reinstates Michigan Prisoner’s Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 25, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit clarified what constitutes a “strike” for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s (PLRA) “three-strikes” rule, 28 U.S.C. …
Eleventh Circuit Declines to Extend to Summary Judgment Proceedings a Rule Requiring District Courts to Notify Pro Se Litigants by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declined to extend to summary judgment proceedings based on Bank v. Pitt, …
$4 Million Verdict Returned in Colorado Jail Suicide Case by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado returned a verdict on April 9, 2025, awarding $4 million to the Estate of Jackson Maes, a detainee whose cries for help allegedly …
$3.6 Million Paid by Minnesota County After Hemophiliac Jail Detainee Died from Brain Bleed by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Officials in Minnesota’s Ramsey County agreed on April 9, 2025, to pay $3.6 million to settle claims filed for the Estate of Dillon Bakke, a 32-year-old hemophiliac who suffered a …
Appeals Court Rules Michigan’s Tolling Provision Is Not Inconsistent with the PLRA by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on January 29, 2025 that Michigan’s tolling provision codified in Mich. Comp. Laws section 600.5856 is not inconsistent with the Prison Litigation …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
California Prisoners Sue Gynecologist for Sexual Abuse by Casey Bastian On February 2, 2025, a class-action complaint was filed by women housed at the California Institute for Women (CIW). The suit alleges that Dr. Scott Lee abused dozens of prisoners for at least seven years while he acted as the …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Sixth Circuit Holds Dismissal Not Automatic When Plaintiff Simultaneously Files Same Claims in State Court by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s claim of retaliation, finding the district court misapplied a waiver doctrine that prevented persons from …
Ninth Circuit: Continuing-Violations Doctrine Applies for PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Purposes by David Reutter On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a prisoner “need not file repeated grievances if the (prisoner) has identified one continuing harm or a single course of conduct [of] …
Ninth Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Claim Based on Guard’s Thwarting of Administrative Remedies by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights action for the failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The Court found the prisoner was “reliably informed” by a …
Sixth Circuit Order Sealing Records in Private Prison Shareholder Suit Vacated, Remanded by As of 2016, CoreCivic—formerly Corrections Corp. of America—contracted with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to operate five facilities. In August of that year, a report by the Inspector General for the Dept. of Justice found the …
Class-Action Suit at BOP “Rape Club” in California Settled for Record $116 Million by After it was signed into law in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 147 § 15601 et seq., remained unused for a decade while standards were developed and implemented to curtail rape …
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