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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$50,000 for Excessive Force Claim by Maryland Prisoner Who Used to Be a Guard by On March 19, 2025, an agreement was reached paying $50,000 to a Maryland prisoner—who is also a former Baltimore jailer—to settle his claim that he was subjected to excessive force by a guard at Western …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Eighth Circuit Lets Missouri Guard Skate For Placing Avowed Enemies In Same Cell, Resulting In Assault by Anthony Accurso Missouri prisoners beware: On ­November 19, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a prison guard who placed two “avowed enemy” …
$2.4 Million Settlement Reached After Elderly Pretrial Detainee Strangled by Cellmate in San Antonio Jail by David Reutter Texas’ Bexar County agreed on April 22, 2024, to pay $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Curtis Raymond Smith, 66, who was killed just hours after his …
Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed dismissal of Connecticut prisoner’s complaint over an assault he suffered in a Virginia lockup where …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Out of State Transfers
State Forces Minneapolis Jail to Ship Out Detainees by Facing persistent and critical short staffing, commissioners in Minnesota’s Hennepin County voted on December 3, 2024, to spend $5.4 million to ship 266 of over 800 detainees from the county jail to lockups in other Minnesota counties. The state Department of …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Arkansas Moving Some State Prisoners from County Jails… to a Former County Jail by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders (R) announced on December 27, 2024, that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) had added 1,500 beds to ease overcrowding in state prisons. Sanders crowed that she had “stopped kicking the can …
Eighth Circuit: Evidentiary Admissibility Is a “Red Herring” At Class Certification of St. Louis Jail Conditions Challenge by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declined to join most sister circuits, which admit evidentiary challenges to class certification …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Work Release
Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles by Alabama is notoriously stingy with parole grants to eligible prisoners, but it also leaves many to languish in work-release centers, where the unemployment rate in January 2024 hit 26%—far above the state’s overall rate of just 2.9% Though numbering just 350 …
$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 27, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied state prison officials’ motion for new trial. That left standing a jury verdict finding that …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Elderly Ohio Prisoner Beaten by Cellmate Despite Warning Guards, Who Cheered Attack by In a lawsuit filed in federal court for the Northern District of Ohio on March 18, 2024, state prisoner Darryl Smith accuses Mansfield Correctional Institution (MCI) guards of ignoring warnings he was being threatened by his cellmate, …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with the California Department …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
The Graying of American Prisons by The term “geriatric” can apply to a prisoner as young as 50 in some prison systems, and it describes the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. incarcerated population. As Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) reported on August 2, 2023, the number has quintupled over the past …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Exceptional Punishments by Kate Weisburd by Kate Weisburd No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison. The same scene unfolds in criminal courtrooms across the country every day. After someone has been found guilty by a jury or pled guilty, a …
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release by As reported by The Appeal on September 25, 2023, a Georgia prisoner with Hepatitis C was forced to pass up placement in a work-release program in order to maintain his medical care, which was not available to him …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
California Court of Appeal Reinstates Lawsuit by San Quentin Prisoner Over Botched Transfer That Sparked COVID-19 Outbreak by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 13, 2023, the California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District reinstated a putative class-action lawsuit brought by a prisoner at San Quentin State …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Settlement Reached Over COVID-19 Measures, Home Confinement Releases at FCC Lompoc by On October 11, 2022, the federal court for the Central District of California approved a settlement resolving a suit over COVID-19 precautions and releases filed by prisoners at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Lompoc, California, in May …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
400 Prisoners Relocated After Fire at Texas State Penitentiary by A fire erupted at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville early on August 25, 2023, forcing the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to evacuate 655 prisoners – 400 of whom had to be relocated to other prisons due to …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
$8.25 Million Verdict Against Former Colorado Sheriff for Detainee’s Sexual Assault During Jail Transfer by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 4, 2022, a federal jury in Colorado awarded $8.25 million to a woman taken by a former sheriff to his home and sexually assaulted as he was transporting …
Minnesota Supreme Court Denies Qualified Immunity for Delayed Transfer of Sex Offenders by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On February 1, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that civilly committed sex offenders have a clearly established right to transfer to Community Preparation Services (CPS) within a reasonable time. What is …
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