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Settlement Bars Family Separations at U.S. Border Until 2031, Pays $6.4 Million in Legal Fees and Costs by On November 5, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of California approved a settlement under which the United States government agreed to pay $6,411,664.07 in legal fees and costs incurred …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
California Lawmakers Address CDCR’s Banned Book List by Corrections officials usually limit what prisoners are allowed to read. A 2022 report by the nonprofit Marshall Project found that half the United States maintains lists of prohibited publications. California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has some 3,000 disapproved books and …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
San Francisco Supervisor Calls for “Mass Arrests” and Compulsory Addiction Treatment in “Drug Jails” by In a letter of inquiry submitted on January 3, 2025, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey (D) called for “mass arrests” of addicts and their incarceration in “drug jails,” where they would be forced …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
BOP Shutters “Rape Club” in California, Director Peters Quits by The troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lost Director Collette Peters on January 20, 2025, when she resigned just as incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) was sworn into to office. Peters held the job for just 30 months, and …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
U.S. Navy Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Black WWII Sailors by The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco. On the …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
California Prisoner Allegedly Ran Alaska Drug Ring from His Cell by At a status conference in federal court for the District of Alaska on December 9, 2024, prosecutors obtained a six-month continuance for “voluminous discovery and scheduling” in the case of Heraclio Sanchez Rodriguez, a California state prisoner who allegedly …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
California Governor Pardons Former Prisoner Podcaster of “Ear Hustle” by One of 17 pardons granted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on November 27, 2024, went to former San Quentin prisoner Earlonne Woods, 53, a host of the popular Ear Hustle podcast that he helped start from his cell in …
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 …
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 …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
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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
Hep-C Treatment Needed in Los Angeles County Jails to Save Lives and Money by Over a five-year stint working in Los Angeles County’s jail system, Dr. Mark Bunin Benor saw hundreds of detainees with Hepatitis-C who were not being treated. In an article published by the Los Angeles Times on …
Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
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News in Brief by Alabama: Wiregrass Daily News reported that Mobile Metro Jail guard Timothy Lee Scarbrough, 39, was arrested on September 9, 2024, and charged with first-degree sodomy for the alleged sexual assaulting of a detainee who was still under the effects of anesthesia after eye surgery. Scarbrough had …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
California Prisoner Wins Round Before Magistrate in Lawsuit Over Marriage Application Delayed Two Years by It took California state prisoner Rafael Salas almost two years before he was able to marry in May 2022, due to repeated delays by state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials at Kern Valley …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
San Quentin Brings in Hollywood, Moves Out California Death Row Prisoners by When the inaugural San Quentin Film Festival wrapped up on October 13, 2024, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) completed a star-studded step in transforming its oldest state prison into the new San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Ninth Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s Conviction for Assaulting Guards at California Prison by On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction of a federal prisoner for assaulting two guards. The Court concluded that Gabriel Mirabal should have been permitted to present evidence …
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