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Tennessee Finalizes New One-Drug Execution Protocol by No executions have been carried out by the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) since May 2019, while the state reviewed its three-drug lethal injection protocol. That review was completed on December 27, 2024, when DOC announced a new protocol with just a single …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Nearly 800 California Prisoners Battle Huge Los Angeles Wildfires—for About $1 an Hour by As the Santa Ana winds fanned an unprecedented number of wildfires that destroyed or damaged nearly 10,000 Los Angeles homes by January 10, 2025, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said that firefighting crews …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Thousands Freed from Syrian Prison by Hours after former Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad fled rebels who then took control of Damascus on December 8, 2024, prisoners were freed from Sednaya Prison, a lockup known as a “human slaughterhouse” where an estimated 30,000 enemies of the al-Assad regime were killed since …
DOJ Settles Complaints About Conditions for Disabled Detroit Jail Detainees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved an agreement with Michigan’s Wayne County that promised to improve conditions at its jail in Detroit for prisoners with physical and mental disabilities. …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Arkansas Moving Some State Prisoners from County Jails… to a Former County Jail by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders (R) announced on December 27, 2024, that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) had added 1,500 beds to ease overcrowding in state prisons. Sanders crowed that she had “stopped kicking the can …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Indiana Resumes Executions by On December 18, 2024, Indiana ended a 15-year execution hiatus with a fatal injection of pentobarbital given to state prisoner Joseph Corcoran, 49. Though state law does not provide for journalists to witness executions, Corcoran’s family invited an Indiana Capital Chronicle reporter to join them as …
Brief • February 14, 2025
California Coalition for Women Prisoners v. U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, CA, Motion for Final Approval of Consent Decree, Sexual Abuse, 2025 Case 4:23-cv-04155-YGR Document 465 1 ERNEST GALVAN – 196065 KARA J. JANSSEN – 274762 2 ADRIENNE SPIEGEL – 330482 LUMA KHABBAZ – 351492 3 ROSEN BIEN GALVAN & …
Brief • February 10, 2025
Estate of Bryan Debbs v. County of Sacramento, CA,Judgment, Wrongful Death-Failure to Protect, 2025 Case 2:20-cv-01153-DC-SCR Document 61 Filed 02/10/25 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 ESTATE OF BRYAN DEBBS, et …
In-the-News Article • January 31, 2025
Bill calls for dramatic rewrite of New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act Jan. 31, 2025 Articles with PLN Quotes Santa Fe New Mexican A sophomore lawmaker has filed a bill proposing a dramatic rewrite of New Mexico’s public records law that critics warn would have an alarming effect on …
Brief • January 31, 2025
Estate of Shelly Monahan v. Clark County, WA, Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion to Dismiss, Wrongul Death-Denial Medical Care, 2025 Case 3:24-cv-05392-TMC Document 49 Filed 01/31/25 Page 1 of 40 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 6 …
Brief • January 28, 2025
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Puryear v. Dotson, VA, Settlement, False Imprisonment, 2025 Case 3:24-cv-00479-REP Document 55-1 Filed 01/28/25 Page 1 of 83 PageID# 449 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND DIVISION LESLIE PURYEAR, on behalf of himself and all those similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 3:24-cv-00479-REP CHADWICK DOTSON, in …
In-the-News Article • January 25, 2025
Human Rights Defense Center sues Jefferson County sheriff, officials over jail censorship Jan. 25, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation MSNBC DENVER — A prison advocacy group is suing Jefferson County officials over claims the jail is censoring books and magazines sent to inmates in violation of the organization’s free speech and due …
In-the-News Article • January 16, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Publisher Files Censorship Suit Against Jail in Pacific County, Washington Jan. 16, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation Flannery Publications South Bend – On December 30, 2024, the non-profit organization Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to …
In-the-News Article • January 16, 2025
Lawsuit alleges civil rights violations by jail Jan. 16, 2025 Articles about PLN Litigation Chinook Observer SOUTH BEND — Attorneys at Macdonald Hoague and Bayless, acting on behalf of the nonprofit Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), have filed a 600-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fourth Circuit: Baltimore County Prisoners May Qualify as Employees under FLSA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit clarified the standards to determine whether Baltimore County prisoners are considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), …
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
“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Video of Autistic Ohio Teen’s Jail Death Undercuts Sheriff’s Report Calling It Suicide by Surveillance video from Ohio’s Montgomery County Jail surfaced from an unidentified source in early June 2024, showing the last hours before 19-year-old Isaiah Trammell died in custody in March 2023. As PLN reported, he died three …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Australia: Brisbane Correctional Center prisoner Jack James Peterson, 29, was sentenced to an additional 18 months in January 2023 for assaulting a guard with a squash racket, the Courier reported. Peterson struck the unnamed 34-year-old during a confrontation involving a riot response team, leaving him with …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Since our inception in 1990 the Human Rights Defense Center has focused on the financial exploitation of prisoners and their families in particular and poor people in general by the American criminal justice system. A sad commentary on the state of …
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