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Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arizona DOC Agrees to Pay $2,650,000 in Legal Fees and Costs in Long-Running PLN Censorship Suit by On May 3, 2024, Arizona’s Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a federal censorship lawsuit brought by PLN’s publisher,the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC). Under the agreement, DOC paid $2,650,000 to cover HRDC’s attorneys’ …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Filing • August 2, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Milwaukee Cnty., WI, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff, Case No. v. MILWAUKEE COUNTY, WISCONSIN; DENITA R. BALL, Sheriff, individually and in her official capacity; and JOHN AND JANE DOES 1-10, Staff, …
Brief • August 2, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Milwaukee Cnty., WI, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, a not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff, Case No. v. MILWAUKEE COUNTY, WISCONSIN; DENITA R. BALL, Sheriff, individually and in her official capacity; and JOHN AND JANE DOES 1-10, Staff, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Media
Arkansas Sheriff Grilled Over Hit Netflix Show Filmed at Jail by An emergency ordinance passed by the Quorum Court of Arkansas’ Pulaski County on April 22, 2024, demanded answers from county Sheriff Eric Higgins to questions about a TV show filmed at the jail in Little Rock. The county also …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
Filing • May 3, 2024
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Settlement Agreement, PLN Censorship, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (the "Settlement Agreement") is made and entered into by and among: "Plaintiff': Prison Legal News, a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (referred to herein as ''Plaintiff'). "Defendant": State …
HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case by On March 27, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted in part and denied in part the Human Rights Defense Center’s (HRDC) motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action it filed …
Article • April 26, 2024
“Sisters-In-Law” of Brazilian Prisoners Going Viral on TikTok by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The wives and girlfriends of some 8,500 Brazilian prisoners are finding fame and fortune with “sister-in-law” videos that have gone viral on the TikTok social media app. The videos offer a window into the …
Article • April 26, 2024
Fourth Circuit Finds No Defamation for Inaccurate Media Reporting of Criminal Record of Former Federal Prisoner in West Virginia by After a 2010 explosion killed 29 miners at a Massey Energy Company coal mine in West Virginia, CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of conspiracy to violate federal mine safety regulations …
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2023, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) appeared to back down from a fight over providing state prisoners materials from a Wiccan shop—though it maintained a ban on correspondence from the shop owner …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Education, Art, Tapes/Music
Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
Filing • March 20, 2024
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Order Granting Attorneys' Fees and Expenses, PLN Censorship, 2024 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 379 Filed 03/20/24 Page 1 of 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Prison Legal News, Plaintiff, 10 …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music by Maurice Chammah Maurice Chammah One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, and traveled 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night, he stood before a crowd—flanked by a horn section, …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism by On June 15, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on suppression of prison journalism from the inside. The bottom line? Practicing journalism while imprisoned in most states is “extremely difficult and sometimes risky.” News reporting by prisoners …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Censoring Women’s Health by Kwaneta Harris by Kwaneta Harris In prison, even learning about your own reproductive health is met with repression. This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/censoring-womens-health/ “It’s coming out! Down there!” my twenty-year-old handcuffed neighbor, Mina, says …
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