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Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCare Medical Employees by A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) guard supervisor was found guilty on January 27, 2025, on charges related to the fatal beating of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, at …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
$10.5 Million in Settlements for San Diego Jail Detainee’s Severe Brain Injury by On May 21, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California approved a $1 million settlement paid by San Diego County Jail medical provider Coast Correctional Medical Group (CCMG), resolving a suit alleging that …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Private Prisons
Trump Tosses Toothless Biden Private Prison “Ban” by Hours after taking office on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) issued an executive order reversing one from his predecessor that barred the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) from contracting with private prisons. That order from former Pres. Joseph R. …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
“Lady al-Qaeda” Sues BOP for Guards’ Sexual Assaults by In a suit filed in federal court for the Northern District of Texas against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on September 19, 2024, Aafia Siddiqui, 52, a Pakistani national serving an 86-year sentence for a terrorism-related conviction at the Federal …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Escapes
Four Escapes in Eight Months from Oklahoma Jail by After slipping away from Oklahoma’s Caddo County courthouse January 22, 2025, detainee Levi Yeahpau spent a day on the run until he was recaptured. His uncle, Daron Highwalker, said that the detainee “basically [] walked out both front doors, and he …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Trans Federal Prisoner in Massachusetts Wins Temporary Halt to Trump Order Removing Her From Women’s Lockup by In an executive order issued just after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) ordered the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), parent agency of the federal Bureau of …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
New York Guards Strike After 10 Charged in Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by On February 18, 2025, charges were announced against nine New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert L. Brooks, 43. The announcement was followed by a rogue strike staged …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Staffing
Could the Prison Staffing Crisis Lead to More Oversight? by Much has been reported about the prison staffing crisis in the United States. But by the end of 2024, a curious trend was emerging: In 16 states that year, lawmakers considered 31 correctional oversight bills. In Washington, which already had …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Arkansas Jailers Who Ignored Detainee’s Spider Bite by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In an opinion filed on July 31, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Over 100,000 Criminal Records Sealed Under Colorado’s “Clean Slate Act” by Colorado lawmakers have amended the state’s “Clean Slate Act” to include arrests without charges and completed diversions. Effective July 1, 2025, arrest records will automatically be sealed when no charges are filed within one year. The provision is retroactive …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: jobs
ABA Highlights Ohio Prisoner’s Successful Transition to Lawyer by On October 29, 2024, the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal highlighted a former “jailhouse lawyer” who succeeded in becoming a licensed attorney after release. Damon Davis, 47, is now a lawyer with the Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office in Cincinnati. But …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Pennsylvania County Forgives $65 Million in Jail Pay-to-Stay Fees by Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County voted on September 19, 2024, to forgive $65,902,534.98 in debt owed by former detainees at the county lockup for unpaid fees they were charged during their incarceration. Such “pay to stay” fees have ballooned over …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Released Palestinian Detainees Allege Abuse in Israeli Prisons by On February 2, 2025, as an exchange of detainees brokered by the United States proceeded between Israel and the Hamas militia, freed Palestinians accused their Israeli captors of abusing them in detention. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu did not respond to …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story explores the increasing use of tablets in prisons and jails around the country by the same prison telecom monopolies that have controlled the prison phone “market” for the past 35 years. PLN has been reporting on tablets …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Michigan Judge Sued for Jailing Teen Who Nodded Off While Watching in Court by In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Eastern District of Michigan on December 30, 2024, the mother of a 15-year-old girl accused a state judge of violating the child’s civil rights when he …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: housing
Not Just Another Shared House: North Carolina Farm Eases Re-entry for Released Prisoners by Nestled in central North Carolina’s Alamance County, Benevolence Farm offers a unique reentry program: a holistic approach to supporting formerly incarcerated women. The 13-acre farm serves as their residence, a hub for social advocacy and a …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Number of Texas Detainees Jailed Out-of-County Doubled in Five Years by A June 2024 Texas Tribune analysis found that the number of detainees shipped to jails outside the county of their arrest had more than doubled in five years to a total of 4,358, up from 2,078 in June 2019. …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Arizona Prisoner’s Heat-Related Death by The family of Monnie Washburn moved one step closer to holding Arizona prison officials accountable for his preventable heat-related death. On September 10, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends
Crime Down But Incarceration Up In Tennessee by Despite a significant drop in reported violent crimes in Tennessee, the number of people incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has risen, according to data released by the United States Department of Justice on October 15, 2024. That showed that …
Virginia Parole Board Skirts New Transparency Rules, Governor Walks Back Expanded Sentence Credits—Again by Parole-eligible Virginia prisoners face one of the nation’s stingiest boards. So state lawmakers made parole decisions more transparent with passage of two new laws, the most recent signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on April 4, …
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