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Bonnie Kerness: Pioneer in the Struggle Against Solitary Confinement

Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014

Filed under: Advocacy, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

remained open, she writes in “Torture in United States Prisons.” The unit was shut down in 2010 after prisoner Omar Broadway, a Bloods gang member, used a camera smuggled in by a guard ...

Bailing Out the Private Prison Industry

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Financing, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Immigration, Federal Legislation

the prison's perimeter fence, a security alarm sounded, but staff in the prison's control center turned it off and did nothing. Ø In October two guards at a CCA prison in Walsenburg, Colorado, who had ...

CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement

Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN, Escapes, Overcrowding, Staffing, Toilets, Vermin, Wrongful Release, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

after she agreed to help prisoner Tommy Lee escape by smuggling hacksaw blades and other tools into the facility in a submarine sandwich. CCA Hernando County jail guard Nathaniel Pullings, 33, was fired ...

News in Brief

Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019

Filed under: News in Brief

guards and video surveillance. Petty’s security clearance was revoked, and she was fired and booked into the same jail where she had worked. She was released on $25,000 bond the same day. Kansas ...

Report Faults Vermont Policies in Prisoner Deaths; Retaliation Precedes PLN Writer's Suicide

Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS

, Prentiss submitted numerous medical request forms stating he had not received his medications, he was in pain, and urgently needed medical care. Over that period, guard Douglas Dinsmore noticed ...

The Too-Many Prisoners Dilemma

Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013

Filed under: Media, Access to Media

Baltimore jail guards were busted in April 2013 for allegedly helping a charismatic gang leader, who impregnated four of them, run his drug and money-laundering operations. David Fathi, director ...

The Surreal Prison Censorship Regime

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Censorship

now to ask a C.O. if they could smuggle in some decent reading material. I can just see the conversation as I offer money to the guard. “What? No, I don’t want drugs! I want some Edith ...

From Tiger Cages to Control Units

Article • October 15, 2013

Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Prisoners-International

, and there were iconic photos in the media of a small Vietnamese woman juxtaposed with a huge, burly American GI who she was guarding as a prisoner. But more importantly, the U.S. military was the most powerful ...

Former Oregon Prison Nurse Gets 30 Years for Raping Prisoners

Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Medical Misconduct

, to talk to us one-on-one and you know, BS and kid around,” Wilson recalled. “He kind of talked to us like we were regular people, because the rest of them—a lot of the [guards] and staff ...

The Dead Zone: How Privatization, Isolation and Cruelty Are Killing Prisoners in Arizona

Article • August 23, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, Statistics/Trends, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides

standards for the treatment of prisoners. But according to AI's report, SMU's windowless cells–intended for the prisoners ADC says pose the greatest physical threat to prison guards and the public&ndash ...

Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants

Article • April 15, 2009

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Class Certification

is conducted pursuant to a generally applicable, reasonable jail policy designed to promote safety and security by guarding against the smuggling of weapons and other contraband into [*pg 69] a detention ...

Aramark: Prison Food for Thought

Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024

Filed under: Aramark, Contractor Misconduct, Food, Religious Diet

. Maggots were found on serving lines at several lockups, and dozens of Aramark workers were fired or barred from state prisons after smuggling contraband to prisoners or having inappropriate relationships ...

“Frozen in Solitude’’: Heat-Sensitive Texas Prisoners Get More Than Air Conditioning Locked Inside Former Segregation Cells

Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023

Filed under: Exposure to Cold, Exposure to Heat, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

; into the former isolation cells. But there is a cruelty baked into the architecture of ad seg and super seg, not to mention the attitudes of guards who work there. Those spaces were designed to hold very dangerous ...

Modern-Day Gulag In the Golden State

Article • June 6, 2019

Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Medical Records, Overdetention, Money/Property, Civil Commitment

Coalinga to prison for possessing child pornography (smuggled in by staff). According to a staff person who checked the Coalinga roster, Chavez is still on it. The number of staff needed is also debatable ...

Prison Health Services: As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence

Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005

Filed under: Prison Health Services, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect

stopped, investigators said, guards at the Schenectady jail doctored records to make it appear he had been released before he died. Two months later, Victoria Williams Smith, the mother of a teenage boy ...

Medical Care Still Deficient in Texas Prisons

Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Records, Disclosure of Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

for prisoners. In 1947 the Texas State Council of Methodist Women pressured the system and initiated a school for prison guards. In the 1960's prisoners themselves initiated litigation that culminated ...

The Punishment Economy: Winners and Losers in the Business of Mass Incarceration

Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021

Filed under: Effects of Mass Incarceration

drugs from coming through the mail—but unsurprisingly, drugs continue to enter prisons and jails through smuggling by guards and staff. This kind of profiteering by Securus and JPay aren’t ...

Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm

Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025

Filed under: Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Electronic Tablets, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Telephone Rates, Tapes/Music, Securus, Global Tel*Link Corp

, playing video games or watching downloaded movies. Given a 40% systemwide vacancy rate for guards, using tablets to keep prisoners in line is a definite benefit if, much like TVs, tablets serve as a virtual ...

Thou Shalt Not: Sexual Misconduct by Prison and Jail Chaplains

Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Staff Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Clergy, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons

as a sheriff’s deputy until he was arrested in 1991 and charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and attempting to smuggle marijuana to a prisoner. He served one year of a six-year ...

From Cages to the Community: Prison Profiteers and the Treatment Industrial Complex

Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Private Contractors, Alternative Sentencing, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Sex Offender Treatment, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Involuntary Treatment/Drugging, Civil Commitment, Private Corrections Industry News

to be more dangerous for both prisoners and guards. For example, the Marshall Project reported that assault rates were three to five times higher at private prisons in Mississippi than at public facilities ...