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New York Governor Orders Firing of 13 Guards, Nurse in Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by On December 22, 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) ordered 13 state prison guards fired, along with a nurse, all of whom were involved in the fatal beating of state prisoner Robert Brooks, 43. Five …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
DOJ Directs BOP, U.S. Marshals to Improve Suicide Prevention by On December 3, 2024, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco issued a directive updating suicide prevention protocols and improving mental health assessments for federal prisoners and detainees. The reforms apply to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and the U.S. …
Oregon Holds BLM Protestor in Solitary Confinement for 250 Days by On November 29, 2024, Malik Muhammad, 25, ended a nine-day hunger strike protesting nearly 250 days that he was held in solitary confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary. His time in solitary exceeded the state Department of Corrections’ (DOC) …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Nearly 800 California Prisoners Battle Huge Los Angeles Wildfires—for About $1 an Hour by As the Santa Ana winds fanned an unprecedented number of wildfires that destroyed or damaged nearly 10,000 Los Angeles homes by January 10, 2025, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said that firefighting crews …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit: Baltimore County Prisoners May Qualify as Employees under FLSA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified the standards to determine whether Baltimore County prisoners are considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), …
No Charges in Alabama Prisoner’s Torture, Rape and Murder by Terry Williams, the father of a murdered Alabama prisoner, was reportedly left “speechless” in late October 2024 after an Elmore County grand jury refused to indict his son’s alleged attacker, another prisoner identified as “X.” Just a year earlier, Daniel …
$400,000 Jury Verdict for Medical Neglect Resulting in Amputation of Alabama Prisoner’s Toes by On May 20, 2024, a federal jury in Alabama returned a verdict against a doctor employed by Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private medical provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). It was part …
Four-Month Wait for 40 Percent of South Carolina Jail Detainees Needing Psychiatric Evaluation by A backlog in court-ordered psychological evaluations had stranded 136 South Carolina detainees in jail by the end of September 2024, nearly 40% of them held over 120 days. Waiting on admission to the state’s forensic psychiatric …
Second Rapper Stabbed in Atlanta Jail During Record-Long Trial by Rapper Yak Gotti, whose real name is Deamonte Kendrick, 32, was stabbed in the south annex of Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on December 1, 2024, during a racketeering trial involving fellow rapper Young Thug—real name Jeffrey Lamar Williams, 33—and four …
Muslim New York Prisoner’s Free Exercise of Religion Claim Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed summary judgment on a New York prisoner’s First Amendment free exercise claim while also affirming a jury’s verdict …
Tenth Circuit Affirms PTS Driver’s Conviction for Torturous Detainee Transport by On June 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the conviction of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
$1.5 Million Settlement Reached for Oregon Prisoner’s Untreated Traumatic Brain Injury by A report published by Oregon Capital Chronicle on November 11, 2024, noted that former state prisoner Jacqueline Orr, 57, still suffers the effects of a brain injury incurred during her incarceration—walking “gingerly” while “clutching a cane” through a …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Trump Outpolled Harris in Pre-Election Survey Behind Bars by A July 2024 survey of 11,500 people held in 542 prisons and jails found that 44% supported the candidacy of former Pres. Donald J. Trump (R), who then went on to win a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. His …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Minnesota Judge Spanked For Ignoring Law Restoring Felon Voting Rights by Just over a year after Minnesota restored voting rights to former felons, the state Board on Judicial Standards (BJS) reprimanded Mille Lacs County District Judge Matthew Quinn on June 27, 2024, for attempting to disenfranchise formerly incarcerated people. Minnesota’s …
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO Group, Inc., is the sole detention facility in the state of Washington for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2023, state …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction by On March 28, 2024, Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals (COA2D) overturned Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction, ruling that the state failed to present any evidence of criminal intent by the Black grandmother from Fort Worth to vote illegally in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional by Quietly, the Second Senate of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court made history on June 20, 2023, in a ruling that found laws capping compensation that prisoners receive for work in two German states violate the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Remedying Wrongs by Kenneth Alyass The administrative remedy process is a roadblock to challenging inhumane prison conditions. With the help of advocates, people in prison are fighting back. As a way to challenge the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment, people behind bars have made remarkable use of the very legal …
Mom of Murdered California Prisoner Defeats Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit by Guard Who Posted Pics of Corpse Online by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California largely denied a motion to dismiss a civil rights action filed …
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