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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 …
DeSantis Axes Florida Criminal Justice Reform by Stuck in distant second place in the race for the GOP Presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vetoed a new criminal justice reform measure on June 27, 2023, even though it was passed by most members of his own party in the …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Compensation Awarded to California Non-Profit and HRDC Officials for Efforts Reducing Prison Phone Rates by On June 9, 2023, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved a total compensation award of $113,362 for the Center for Accessible Technology (CAT), finding the organization had made a substantial contribution to PUC’s rulemaking …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
Tennessee Private Prison Gets State’s First LGBTQ+ Group by As reported in Filter Magazine on July 26, 2023, Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) has become the birthplace of “Be the Change” (BTC), the first known openly LGBTQ+ community in any of the state’s 14 prisons. A private medium-security prison …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
46 Honduran Prisoners Massacred in Their Cells by On June 20, 2023, a grisly riot broke out in a Honduran women’s prison in Tamara, 30 miles from the capital Tegucigalpa. It started when rival gang members from a different cellblock took keys from guards and locked down the area. The …
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The footage, saved on a discarded thumb …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Aramark Sparks Nevada Prison Hunger Strike by Mark Wilson By Mark Wilson Approximately 40 Nevada prisoners at a maximum-security lockup near Reno started a hunger strike on December 1, 2022, that lasted at least nine days. Top officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) claimed the strike at Ely …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Protests
Protest Damages Massachusetts Jail that Sheriff Wants to Update by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On April 21, 2023, about 75-80 detainees staged a protest against their move inside Massachusetts’ Bristol County House of Correction. The move was to allow renovations to make their cells suicide resistant. Among …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Filed under: Protests
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