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Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Advocacy
California Prisoner’s Generosity for Gaza Rewarded With Over $100,000 by As of February 29, 2024, a GoFundMe campaign had raised $102,172 for a soon-to-be-paroled California prisoner to transition from incarceration. Filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who started the page, then shut down contributions at the request of his incarcerated friend, known as …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Massachusetts Prison Closure Reflects Success of Criminal Justice Reforms by On January 24, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) announced it was closing the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) in Concord, and a report released the same month by a pair of local nonprofits celebrated the decision for reflecting the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Ending Prison Slavery on the Ballot in California, Nevada by On June 27, 2024, California’s General Assembly voted to put a measure on the November 2024 ballot that would amend the state constitution to prohibit any kind of slavery. Current California law mirrors the Thirteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
BOP Hires Sentencing Reform Advocate by In a strange-but-true story—like a fox asking a hen to help raid the coop—the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced on October 20, 2023, that its Office of Legislative Affairs has a new attorney advisor: Molly Gill, a long-time official at sentencing reform nonprofit …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
North Carolina’s Largest City Elects First Ex-Prisoner to Council by On December 3, 2023, Tiawana Brown became the first ex-prisoner sworn in to serve on the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina. In September 2023, the self-described “survivor of incarceration” won the Democratic primary in the city’s District 3, her …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Virginia Legislature Tables “Second-Look” Bills by Virginia’s General Assembly tabled a pair of bills that would have provided a path to early release for state prisoners after serving at least 15 years with good behavior, with Senators continuing S.B. 427 to next year’s session on February 28, 2024, and the …
Missouri DOC Models Re-entry Program on Norwegian Prisons by Dressed in maroon shirts—not prison jumpsuits—three prisoners joined the “Dynamo” program at Missouri’s Northeast Correctional Center in November 2023. That brought total enrollment to 17 since the state Department of Correction (DOC) launched the initiative in April 2023, modeling it after …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing by David Reutter
Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars by In a report published on October 11, 2023, the nonprofit Sentencing Project noted that the lifetime risk of incarceration for Black men in the U.S. fell from one in three in 1981 to one in five in 2021. However, all …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Advocacy, Default Judgments
Indiana Prisoner Sues Prison Abolition Group, Wins $1,097 Default Judgment by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On July 28, 2022, an Indiana prisoner was granted a $1,097.00 default judgment against the nonprofit prison abolition group, Critical Resistance, in a state small claims action. Defendant is a longtime prison abolition advocacy …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement by At Massachusetts’ maximum-­security Souza-­Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC), 19 prisoners held in the Secure Adjustment Unit (SAU) began a hunger strike in October 2023, alleging conditions like solitary confinement despite state law reforms limiting its use. The protest began with a …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Minnesota Prison on Lockdown After Protest Over Dirty Water, Lack of Phone Use and Out-of-Cell Time by Over Labor Day weekend 2023, approximately 100 prisoners refused to return to their cells at Minnesota Correctional Facility (MCF) in Stillwater. They were protesting limited access to showers, phones and recreation, which the …
Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s orders granting California prisoners a pair of 12-month extensions to a Settlement Agreement …
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic is pushing instead to build and lease it—and the firm has a high-placed ally in state Budget and Finance Director …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Nine Guilty So Far in Sprawling California Aryan Brotherhood Case by On January 3, 2024, California state prisoner and Aryan Brotherhood (AB) member Patrick “Big Pat” Brady, 53, pleaded guilty in federal court for the Northern District of California to murdering a fellow prisoner at High Desert State Prison (HDSP). …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Three L.A. Jail Gang Leaders Murdered by A high-ranking member of the Mexican Mafia jail gang was murdered in Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail on August 4, 2023. The fatal stabbing of Joseph Hutchinson, 51, came just weeks after fellow gang member Michael Torres, 59, was also stabbed to …
How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration by How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration “Who is accountable for the imposition of punishment in our carceral system?” asked Laura I. Appleman, Professor of Law at Willamette University, in an article published on April 13, 2023. An answer is …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Maine Ends Prison Gerrymandering by Maine became the latest state to end prison gerrymandering on June 30, 2023, when Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1704/HP 1093 into law and joined 16 other states to count prisoners at their home address instead of the prison where they are incarcerated. The …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Prison Gangs, Conspiracy
37 Mississippi Prison Gang Members, Accomplices Convicted in Massive Conspiracy by On October 19, 2023, the last of a group of 37 Mississippi prison gang members and their accomplices pleaded guilty in federal court to selling drugs and committing violent crimes in state lockups. From its founding in Chicago in …
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