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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
HRDC Files Suit on Behalf of Florida Man Wrongfully Convicted and Incarcerated for 31 Years by On December 5, 2024, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s non-profit publisher, in conjunction with attorneys from Loevy & Loevy in Chicago, filed a federal civil rights suit on behalf of Tony Hopps, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
U.S. Navy Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Black WWII Sailors by The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco. On the …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
California Governor Pardons Former Prisoner Podcaster of “Ear Hustle” by One of 17 pardons granted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on November 27, 2024, went to former San Quentin prisoner Earlonne Woods, 53, a host of the popular Ear Hustle podcast that he helped start from his cell in …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fifth Circuit Leaves Louisiana Prisoner Waiting for Reinstated Parole by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a mandate it earlier withheld, which in turn ordered the release of Louisiana prisoner Samuel K. Galbraith—nearly eight years after he …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Michigan Supreme Court Greenlights Adding Restitution At Resentencing of Former Juveniles Sentenced to LWOP by On July 8, 2024, the Supreme Court of Michigan held that imposing a new restitution obligation—by retroactive application of restitution statutes enacted after a criminal defendant committed his underlying offense—could nevertheless happen during a resentencing …
Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires by In a bizarre case of Orwellian government overreach, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) reincarcerated former state prisoner Terri Lee Brown for a parole violation after her parole ended. But on May 8, 2024, the Oregon Supreme Court slapped …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Federal Prisoners on Death Row by On December 23, 2024, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) commuted the sentences of all but three federal prisoners facing execution. The 37 prisoners receiving commutations will now serve life in custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons …
After Florida Appellate Court Holds Crimes of ‘Attempt’ Eligible for Incentive Gain Time, Supreme Court Refuses Review by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On November 14, 2024, Florida’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to an appellate court ruling that exempted …
Brief • December 20, 2024
Filed under: Overdetention
USA v. The State of Louisiana, LA, Complaint, Overdetention, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-01041-BAJ-RLB Document 1 12/20/24 Page 1 of 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. COMPLAINT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA and THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS, CIVIL ACTION NO. …
Washington Court of Appeals: No Reimbursement for Community Service Performed for Vacated Conviction by In a pair of cases decided in October 2024, the Court of Appeals of Washington held that defendants are not entitled to reimbursement for community service work that they performed in lieu of paying cash to …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
New York Court of Appeals (Lightly) Slaps State Prison Officials for Holding Sex Offenders Past Release by On April 25, 2024, New York’s highest court took up a challenge brought by sex offenders confined in residential treatment facilities beyond expiration of their prison sentences. The result: A puny demand that …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
$46 Million Paid to Exonerated Missouri Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated for 10 Years by On November 1, 2024, a Missouri jury returned a $37.9 million verdict against Travelers Indemnity Company in favor of an exonerated state prisoner after the insurance giant balked at covering an $11 million settlement of his wrongful …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Fifth Circuit Judges Battle in Louisiana Over-Detention Cases by The State of Louisiana cannot manage to correctly calculate release dates for those it incarcerates, leaving prisoners held weeks and months beyond expiration of their sentences. These over-detention cases, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit calls them, …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Kentucky’s Failure to Timely Release Prisoners Costs Taxpayers $30 Million (So Far) by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney When Kentucky prisoner Keith Bramblett complained about not receiving “good time credit” against his sentence for the class he took while incarcerated, an official with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) replied: …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Illinois Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Over DOC Failure to Implement New Sentence Reduction Law by Two Illinois prisoners staged hunger strikes in June 2024 to protest the state’s foot-­dragging in granting sentence credits provided a year earlier under a new law. With promises from Robinson Correctional Facility officials to expedite …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Former Virginia Prisoners Win Back Denied Sentence Credits, Sue Over Delayed Release by Virginia’s shifting rules on sentence credits for state prisoners continue to end up before the state Supreme Court, which has twice spanked state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) for failing to abide by the law. Several former …
California Resentences 15 Condemned Prisoners to Life Without Parole by On April 5, 2024, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said that 15 prisoners on California’s death row from the county would be resentenced to life without parole. Rosen utilized a state law empowering district attorneys to reassess sentences …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
$4.77 Million Settlement for Three Alaska Prisoners Exonerated of Murder After 18 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 6, 2023, three of the “Fairbanks Four” accepted $5 million from the Alaska city for 18 years they spent wrongfully incarcerated for a teen’s 1997 murder before their …
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