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Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Illinois Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Over DOC Failure to Implement New Sentence Reduction Law by Two Illinois prisoners staged hunger strikes in June 2024 to protest the state’s foot-­dragging in granting sentence credits provided a year earlier under a new law. With promises from Robinson Correctional Facility officials to expedite …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Nailing Down “Top Cop” Kamala Harris on Criminal Justice Reform by After becoming the surprise new Democratic nominee for the presidency in July 2024, U.S. Vice-Pres. Kamala Harris has leaned into her credentials as a former California prosecutor. But her record has enough to alienate both progressives and law-and-order voters. …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Solitary Confinement Prompts Lawsuit in Massachusetts, Hunger Strike in Maine by A suit filed by six Massachusetts prisoners on July 1, 2024, alleges that conditions in what the state Department of Corrections (DOC) calls a “Secure Adjustment Unit” (SAU) are no different from solitary confinement—something state legislators outlawed in 2018. …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Bruce Johnson 1950–2024 by Paul Wright by Paul Wright On August 20, 2024, the free speech rights of all Americans suffered a devastating loss. Bruce Johnson, 74, was a long-time partner at the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. He spent his entire, nearly half century career as a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Telecom Firms Shift Revenue Streams in Response to Prison Phone Reforms by As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held an information-­gathering hearing on April 24, 2024, about a proposed rule regarding so-­called “junk fees,” prisoners are set to get left behind. The problem mushroomed once more governments moved to make …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Watchdog Faults BOP for Averaging 43 Prisoner Deaths a Year—More Than 23 by Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report issued by the federal Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on February 15, 2024, identified “operational and managerial deficiencies” in the federal Bureau of …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
D.C. Jail Watchdog Uncovers Alarming Solitary Confinement Practices by A report by the District of Columbia Council for Court Excellence (CCE) released on March 14, 2024, revealed troubling details about solitary confinement in the D.C. Jail, including overly long stays in isolation and refusal by the city Department of Corrections …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
$1.1 Million Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Stabbed by Gang Members For Testifying About Prison Murder by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 1, 2024, an agreement was filed in the federal court for the District of Colorado by the state Department of Corrections (DOC), promising to pay $1.1 …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Aryan Warriors Leader Among Three Killed in Nevada Prison Riot by A fight at Nevada’s Ely State Prison on July 31, 2024, left nine prisoners injured and three others dead—including Aryan Warriors (AW) gang leader Zackaria Luz, 43. No staffers were reported injured by the state Department of Corrections (DOC), …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Advocacy, Mental Health
Pilot Jail Diversion Program Opens for Mentally Ill Arrestees in Austin by A pilot program to divert mentally ill suspects from Texas’ Travis County Jail (TCJ) in Austin opened in March 2024. Inspired by the success of similar efforts in Miami and Nashville, county Judge Andy Brown corralled a coalition …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Riot at California GEO Group Lockup Sends Message to U.S. Marshals by On February 21, 2024, a riot broke out between rival groups of detainees held for the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) at a GEO Group lockup in El Centro, California. Injuries were reported to detainees and staff of the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Advocacy
California Prisoner’s Generosity for Gaza Rewarded With Over $100,000 by As of February 29, 2024, a GoFundMe campaign had raised $102,172 for a soon-to-be-paroled California prisoner to transition from incarceration. Filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who started the page, then shut down contributions at the request of his incarcerated friend, known as …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Massachusetts Prison Closure Reflects Success of Criminal Justice Reforms by On January 24, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) announced it was closing the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Concord, and a report released the same month by a pair of local nonprofits celebrated the decision for reflecting the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Ending Prison Slavery on the Ballot in California, Nevada by On June 27, 2024, California’s General Assembly voted to put a measure on the November 2024 ballot that would amend the state constitution to prohibit any kind of slavery. Current California law mirrors the Thirteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate by In a strange-but-true story—like a fox asking a hen to help raid the coop—the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced on October 20, 2023, that its Office of Legislative Affairs has a new attorney advisor: Molly Gill, a long-time official at sentencing reform nonprofit …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council by On December 3, 2023, Tiawana Brown became the first ex-prisoner sworn in to serve on the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina. In September 2023, the self-described “survivor of incarceration” won the Democratic primary in the city’s District 3, her …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills by Virginia’s General Assembly tabled a pair of bills that would have provided a path to early release for state prisoners after serving at least 15 years with good behavior, with Senators continuing S.B. 427 to next year’s session on February 28, 2024, and the …
Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons by Dressed in maroon shirts—not prison jumpsuits—three prisoners joined the “Dynamo” program at Missouri’s Northeast Correctional Center in November 2023. That brought total enrollment to 17 since the state Department of Correction (DOC) launched the initiative in April 2023, modeling it after …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing by David Reutter
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