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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Rejected by Conviction Integrity Unit, 27 New York Prisoners Exonerated Anyway by When a New York appellate court tossed the conviction of Kaitlyn Conley, 32, in January 2025 for the fatal 2015 poisoning of her employer, veterinarian Mary Yoder, 60, the case returned to Oneida County District Attorney (DA) Todd …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New York Lowers Minimum Age for Prison Guards by An approved bill in New York state will lower the minimum hiring age of its prison guards from 21 to 18, following a strike that resulted in over 2,000 guards being fired earlier this year [See: PLN, March 2025, p.61.] The …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Rikers Island Staffers, Contractor and Detainee Sentenced for Smuggling by On March 10, 2025, the last of four former Rikers Island Jail staffers was sentenced to federal prison for her role in a massive smuggling scheme at the New York City lockup. The group, including three guards and a program …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Rikers Island Detainees Wait in “Black Hole” for Competency Treatment by The number of detainees waiting for competency treatment at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex jumped from 100 in 2024 to 127 by February 2025. The average length of stay has also risen, from 70 to 80 days, …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$18,000 for New York Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Planted Shank in Cell by On July 8, 2024, New York prisoner Kerry Kotler finally achieved a small measure of justice from the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) officials whom he accused of planting incriminating evidence in his cell …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards by Legal costs and fees awarded on January 6, 2025, nearly tripled a $100,000 jury verdict for New York state prisoner Crushaun Hundley in his retaliation claim against a pair of Elmira Correctional Facility guards. The U.S. Court of …
New York Guards Indicted for Prisoner’s Murder by Two New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards were charged with murder on April 16, 2025, in the death of prisoner Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility. The mentally ill 22-year-old was sobbing in a shower where he was …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Crackdown On Pro-Palestinian Dissent Nabs New York Professor Who Found Link Between Cars and Incarceration by One of two New York University (NYU) tenured faculty members barred from parts of its campus in December 2024 is a sociologist who has documented a link between the proliferation of American car culture …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: State Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Arianna Kimberly Slater faces life in prison after she was arrested while attempting to smuggle contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility on February 24, 2025. According to the Birmingham News, a routine employee screening of Slater’s food container found unspecified …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
More New York Guards Suspended After Another Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by New York prisoner Messiah Nantwi, 22, was fatally beaten by guards at the Mid-State Correctional Facility on March 1, 2025, in plain view of at least nine prisoners as well as National Guard troops deployed during a wildcat guard …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
New York Suspends Solitary Ban to Woo Back Striking Prison Guards by Under a deal reached at the end of February 2025 with striking state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) agreed to a 90-day suspension of a law limiting use of …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Raymond v. Mitchell, NY, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 2 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 3 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK Document 200 Filed 03/26/25 Page 4 of 19 Case 9:18-cv-01467-GTS-MJK …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of excessive force, falsifying records and witness tampering on January 28, 2025. According to the Washington Post, the charges stem from an October 2021 incident in which …
Mayhem, Murder and Staff Misconduct at Brooklyn BOP Lockup by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a notorious federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, has made the news repeatedly thanks to some high-profile detainees held there to await trial. But federal prosecutors have also charged nine detainees for a series of …
$1.5 Million Settlement For In-Custody Injury by New York Police by Rosie Martinez, then 49, was arrested in January 2015 after police searched her New York City apartment and found heroin that belonged to her boyfriend. While in custody at the 107th Precinct of the City Police Department (NYPD), she …
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
$100,000 Settlement Reached in New York Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Suit, After Jury for First Time Finds Practice Violates Eighth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2024, the state of New York agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the state had violated …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN reported 25 years ago, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) was accused in a suit filed by attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of denying educational opportunities to young …
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