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Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Colorado Law Intended to Reduce Prison Population Hasn’t Improved Conditions by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2018, Colorado lawmakers unanimously passed a law designed to relieve overcrowded state prisons. It was set to trigger whenever the total vacancy rate for state prison beds drops below 2% for more than …
Missouri Pays $212M for Prison Health Care, But Prisoner Deaths Aren’t a Performance Measure by Rudi Keller by Rudi Keller This article was originally published in the Missouri Independent.   Whether prisoners die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care …
Alarming Conditions at Texas Family Detention Center Owned by CoreCivic by In late February 2026, reporting on the Dilley Immigration Processing Center revealed harrowing details about the conditions under which families are being detained at the facility. Dilley received public attention last month following the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Alaska’s DOC Was $24 Million Over-Budget Last Year, Spent Most on Overtime by The state Department of Corrections (DOC) spent $24 million more than the Alaskan legislature approved last year, a historic high. According to Alaska Public Media, $20 million of the additional budget request was earmarked to pay overtime …
Like Prisoners, Most Jail Detainees Now Banned from Receiving Physical Mail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A February 2026 review by PLN of mail policies at 250 of the largest U.S. jail systems, which together hold over half the country’s detainees, reveals that almost 62% have instituted policies banning …
New York City Mayor Appoints Ex-Rikers Prisoner as Corrections Commissioner by On January 31, the recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) announced the appointment of Stanley Richards, who was locked up at Rikers Island multiple times in his youth, as the commissioner of the city’s Corrections Department …
Illinois DOC Has Failed to Improve Prison Health Care Seven Years After Order by Prisoners in Illinois can face decades of medical neglect, as in the case of Johnnie Flournoy, a 74-year-old prisoner locked up at the Pinckneyville Correction Center around five hours south of Chicago. Imprisoned since the early …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
ICE Wants to Spend $38 Billion to Turn Warehouses into Detention Camps by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to vastly expand its network of detention centers as it ramps up its arrest of immigrants whom it claims are undocumented. As Republican Pres. Donald Trump continues to crack …
Medical Audit at New Mexico Jail Once Again Finds Poor Level of Healthcare by The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a jail on the outskirts of Albuquerque, was found in a recent medical audit to have failed to provide adequate medical care to the detainees it cages. Forty-one detainees …
Maryland Prisons Reel from Growing Number of Prisoner Deaths by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Maryland’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is reeling from a surge in fatalities, with seven prisoner deaths recorded in just two months. Per reporting by The Baltimore Sun, this spike …
New York Governor Pulls Plug on Prison Watchdog Funding by In the wake of the killing of Robert Brooks by guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility in December 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a slew of initiatives designed to reign in the state’s murderous prison system [See: PLN, …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
North Carolina Prisons Are Facing a “Dire” Staffing Crisis by Data from the state Department of Adult Correction (DAC) shows that 14 facilities, roughly one in four prisons across the state, operate with half or more of their guard positions vacant, according to reporting by North Carolina Health News. Throughout …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Virginia Prisoners Stuck Waiting for Education Programs by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso On November 10, 2025, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) of the Commonwealth of Virginia released a report detailing the long wait prisoners can expect when trying to participate in educational programming in the state’s …
Report: Incarcerated Population in Rural Jails and Prisons At Risk of Losing Hospital Access by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson President Donald Trump (R) signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025. The tax spending bill was passed along party lines and is so massive, that it is …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
New Hampshire Prison System Struggles to Hire Guards by Typically, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections (DOC) graduates two classes of prison guards from its training academy each year. But in August 2025, there were so few candidates that the DOC canceled the most recent class and, as a result, …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Arkansas Bans Outside Reading Material Sent to Prisons by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott In a move that further isolates prisoners from the outside world, the Arkansas Board of Corrections (BOC) voted unanimously on December 19, 2025, to ban all externally purchased books, magazines, and newspapers sent directly …
Missouri Prisoners Forced to Shovel Snow in Subzero Temperatures by As the record-breaking winter storm blew through Missouri on the weekend of January 23, 2026, some prisoners were forced to go outside to clear snow from walkways, according to the Missouri Independent. As the storm brought heavy snowfall and wind chills …
The St. Louis Jails Are Running Out of Guards by Ivy Scott 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   …
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 …
$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 …
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