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DOJ Settles Complaints About Conditions for Disabled Detroit Jail Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved an agreement with Michigan’s Wayne County that promised to improve conditions at its jail in Detroit for prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. …
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 …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Indiana Resumes Executions by On December 18, 2024, Indiana ended a 15-year execution hiatus with a fatal injection of pentobarbital given to state prisoner Joseph Corcoran, 49. Though state law does not provide for journalists to witness executions, Corcoran’s family invited an Indiana Capital Chronicle reporter to join them as …
Brief • February 14, 2025
California Coalition for Women Prisoners v. U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, CA, Motion for Final Approval of Consent Decree, Sexual Abuse, 2025 Case 4:23-cv-04155-YGR Document 465 1 ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 KARA J. JANSSEN – 274762 2 ADRIENNE SPIEGEL – 330482 LUMA KHABBAZ – 351492 3 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & …
Brief • February 10, 2025
Estate of Bryan Debbs v. County of Sacramento, CA,Judgment, Wrongful Death-Failure to Protect, 2025 Case 2:20-cv-01153-DC-SCR Document 61 Filed 02/10/25 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ESTATE OF BRYAN DEBBS, et …
Brief • January 31, 2025
Estate of Shelly Monahan v. Clark County, WA, Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion to Dismiss, Wrongul Death-Denial Medical Care, 2025 Case 3:24-cv-05392-TMC Document 49 Filed 01/31/25 Page 1 of 40 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 …
Brief • January 28, 2025
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Puryear v. Dotson, VA, Settlement, False Imprisonment, 2025 Case 3:24-cv-00479-REP Document 55-1 Filed 01/28/25 Page 1 of 83 PageID# 449 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND DIVISION LESLIE PURYEAR, on behalf of himself and all those similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 3:24-cv-00479-REP CHADWICK DOTSON, in …
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), …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Brisbane Correctional Center prisoner Jack James Peterson, 29, was sentenced to an additional 18 months in January 2023 for assaulting a guard with a squash racket, the Courier reported. Peterson struck the unnamed 34-year-old during a confrontation involving a riot response team, leaving him with …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Since our inception in 1990 the Human Rights Defense Center has focused on the financial exploitation of prisoners and their families in particular and poor people in general by the American criminal justice system. A sad commentary on the state of …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Whoppergate” Embroils Georgia Sheriff by A Georgia Sheriff who sent deputies to a local Burger King when displeased with its service endured weeks of taunts on his department’s Facebook page in October 2024. It was then that Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens, Sr. (D) blocked the page’s comments section to …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
With HRDC Amicus Brief, Survivor of Dead Washington Prisoner Wins Public Records Case by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford On April 11, 2024, the Supreme Court of Washington held that the one-year statute of limitations (SOL) for bringing a lawsuit under the state Public Records Act (PRA), RCW 42.56.001, et …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
First Circuit Rejects Request by Securus and Pay Tel to Stay FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps by On November 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued two orders denying motions filed by Securus Technologies, LLC, and Pay Tel Communications, Inc., seeking to stay implementation …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Securus/JPay Video Calling Service Potentially Threatened by New Rate Caps by On November 19, 2024, prison telecom Securus Technologies, Inc., along with subsidiary JPay, notified users of services provided by the firms at prisons and jails of steps being taken to comply with a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order. …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fifth Circuit Leaves Louisiana Prisoner Waiting for Reinstated Parole by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a mandate it earlier withheld, which in turn ordered the release of Louisiana prisoner Samuel K. Galbraith—nearly eight years after he …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Lawsuit Over Death or Severe Injury of 29 Houston Jail Detainees Survives Motion to Dismiss by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 7, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of Texas refused a motion by Defendant Harris County Jail officials in Houston to fully dismiss claims made …
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