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ICE Settles Suit Over Opening Detainees’ Legal Mail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 9, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York granted approval to a settlement agreement by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of …
Fourth Circuit to BOP Prisoner: Any “Disqualifying Offense” Means Zero FSA Credits by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a stark warning to federal prisoners on November 25, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit declared that federal courts will not disaggregate a combined sentence to apply …
$1.5 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached in Texas Jail Over-Detention Case by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman When Ladarion Hughes struck a plea deal and was sentenced to time served in December 2021, he had been held over two years since his July 2019 arrest, mostly in Texas’ Smith County Jail, …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Tulsa Jail Withholds Records Related to Detainee Deaths by The Frontier, a non-profit investigative news outlet in Oklahoma, recently found that seven detainees died from preventable causes in Tulsa’s municipal jail over a three-year period. These deaths occurred due to causes such as overdoses, suicides, an infection, and at least …
Officials in Kansas Allow CoreCivic to Reopen Leavenworth Prison by After a yearlong fight by advocates to prevent private prison profiteer CoreCivic from reopening its prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, city commissioners approved a special use permit on March 10, 2026, allowing the company to proceed. Two people were arrested and …
Montana Switches to Sending Prisoners to a Private Prison in Mississippi by The Montana state Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on March 23, 2026 that it will no longer send prisoners to a private prison in Arizona. Instead, it will send the roughly 600 out-of-state prisoners to a facility in …
Former Maine Prison Official Stole $2.4 Million Through Fraudulent Supply Orders by Former Maine prison official Gerald Merrill, 64, pleaded guilty on March 16, 2026 of theft and accepting a bribe after stealing $2.4 million in stolen funds. As part of Merrill’s plea agreement, signed several days before a jury …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Analysts Recommend Closing California’s Soledad Prison by With California’s declining prison population and a growing state budget deficit, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), a nonpartisan agency that provides policy advice to the state lawmakers, has recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. While the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Almost $1 Million in Settlements Paid to Three Nevada Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Nevada’s Board of Examiners agreed on January 13, 2026, to payouts totaling $997,500, settling a trio of lawsuits filed by state prisoners. The Board, which consists of Gov. Joe Lombardo (R), Attorney General Aaron …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Unsafe Drinking Water at Multiple Texas Prisons Highlights Lack of Transparency by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) recently published “Unlocking Safe Water in Texas Prisons,” a report on the lack of transparency exhibited by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) when it pumps …
Death of Washington Jail Standards Bill Risks Repeat of $2.5 Million Settlement That Closed One County’s Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Washington will remain one of just a dozen states without oversight or even enforceable standards for jails, after legislation to rectify the problem died on January 30, …
Internal Assessment Contradicts Public Claims About Women’s Prisons by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Michigan’s only women’s prison “is infested with mold,” according to U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III. Three women incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Hope Zentz, Paula Bailey, and Krystal Clark, are suing the …
Groundbreaking Statistical Study of Pregnant Texas Jail Detainees Finds Over 400 Monthly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Pregnant women in jails are a long-neglected and overlooked population. Federal law does not require detailed statistical tracking of jail pregnancies. “What it symbolizes is that women who don’t count, don’t get …
Eighth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Iowa Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 6, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated a civil rights lawsuit brought by the parents of an Iowa jail detainee who committed suicide after reporting that he …
New Illinois State Law Requires Prisons to Submit Annual Hospice Reports by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson American prison populations are aging rapidly while studies have continued to show that prisoners have significantly lower life expectancies than those outside of prisons. In Illinois, some 23% of state prisoners are over …
Two Texas Women Charged for Using Plastic Crows in Smuggling Scheme by Two women allegedly used drones and plastic crows filled with contraband in an attempt to smuggle contraband into the United States Penitentiary, Pollock (USP Pollock) in Grant Parish, Louisiana. Melanie Worthington, 38, and Kassy Cole, 41, were arrested …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Prisoners in Oklahoma Can Now Buy Vapes, Pouches from Commissary by Since early March 2026, Oklahoma has begun to allow prisoners to buy vapes and pouches from prison commissaries. While some jails have okayed these nicotine products, Oklahoma is only the second state prison system to do so after the …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Wisconsin’s Incarcerated Population Has More Access to Opioid Treatment, But Still Missing in Eight County Jails by A report recently published by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found that most of the state’s county jails, as well as all of its state prisons, provided medication used to treat opioid use disorder. …
ICE Taps New Contractor to Run Deadly Detention Center in Texas by In early March, the administration of President Donald Trump (R) announced that it planned to offer a no-bid contract to an engineering and electronic services company to run the United States’s largest immigrant detention center, where one detainee …
Private Company Investigating Rapes at California ICE Detention Center Instead of Sheriff by In 2025, officials with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office failed to investigate at least seven reported cases of sexual assault that occured at Otay Mesa immigration detention center, a facility run by private prison profiteer CoreCivic …
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