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Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
After Spike in Jail Deaths, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Under California Department of Justice Investigation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When detainee Reynaldo Ramos, 55, was found unresponsive in his Robert Pressley Detention Center cell in California’s Riverside County on April 16, 2024, efforts to resuscitate him failed, and …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   This month’s cover story on death and abuse at the Riverside County jails in California is an all-too-common account from American jails. With around 3,700 jails around the country, in every community, it is fair to say that this is …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Oregon Transgender Prisoner Claims Abusive Violation of Injunction, but Court Declines Sanctions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke "Does somebody have any common sense?” That was the question U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken had for Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) officials when they appeared before her on December 12, …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Virginia Takes Back One Prison from GEO Group, Closes Four More by On July 1, 2024, Virginia’s Department of Corrections (DOC) closed four prisons and was set to terminate its contract with private prison giant GEO Group, Inc. just over a month later, taking back operational control of its only …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Contractor Fined $300,000 for Illegal Asbestos Dumping at Wisconsin Federal Prison by On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin filed criminal charges against Texas-­based Brazos Urethane, Inc. for conspiracy to defraud the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at a lockup it operates in …
Mississippi Prison Warden Suspended After Security Chief Caught Smuggling by Warden Terrance Watt was placed on administrative leave by the Mississippi Department of Corrections after his Chief of Security at Winston-­Choctaw Regional Correctional Facility was picked up on smuggling charges on July 11, 2024. Nikita Carter, 35, was arrested and …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Addicted to Punishment: Jails and Prisons Punish Drug Use Far More Than They Treat It by Emily Widra by Emily Widra Despite the common refrain that jails and prisons are “de facto treatment facilities,” most prioritize punitive mail scanning policies and strict visitation rules that fail to prevent drugs from …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Psychiatrist Settles Virginia Jail Suicide Suit for $1.75 Million by The leading cause of death among people held in local jails is suicide. The family of Christopher Lapp, 62, learned that the hard way when he killed himself at Virginia’s Alexandria Adult Detention Center in 2021, while being held on …
Florida Court Strikes $10 Million of $16 Million Judgment Against Armor Correctional Health in Jail Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 30, 2023, a Florida court entered final judgment awarding $6 million to the estate of a detainee who died at Santa Rosa County Jail (SRCJ) …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Colorado Lawmakers Take a Pass on Cash Assistance for Released Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Colorado lawmakers wasted little time in this year’s session before killing Senate Bill 12 (SB 12) on February 7, 2024. Though the state has one of the country’s highest recidivism rates—about 50%—the one-­year …
Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a teen in the South, I often heard it said: “Being poor ain’t no sin.” But apparently it has become illegal. According to a report from the Vera Institute of Justice, Kentucky’s courts charge myriad …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Settlements Total $3.85 Million for Nevada Prisoners Hit with Birdshot by David Reutter by David M. Reutter After a Nevada Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner was blinded by guards using birdshot rounds, the state Board of Examiners (BOE) approved a $2.25 million settlement on September 12, 2023. A separate agreement …
Indiana Supreme Court Says “Summary Judgment Is Not Summary Trial,” Remanding State Prisoner’s Malpractice Claim to a Jury by On January 24, 2024, the Indiana Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling and remanded the medical malpractice complaint of state prisoner Edward Zaragoza against Wexford of Indiana LLC, the privately …
Kentucky Parole Officer Gets Three Years for Sexually Assaulting Probationers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) parole officer Ronald R. Tyler, 57, was sentenced to three years in federal prison on March 21, 2024, for sexually assaulting three probationers. Victims Stephanie Logsdon Smith, Cammie …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Arizona DOC Agrees to Pay $2,650,000 in Legal Fees and Costs in Long-Running PLN Censorship Suit by On May 3, 2024, Arizona’s Department of Corrections (DOC) settled a federal censorship lawsuit brought by PLN’s publisher,the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC). Under the agreement, DOC paid $2,650,000 to cover HRDC’s attorneys’ …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: Advocacy, Mental Health
Pilot Jail Diversion Program Opens for Mentally Ill Arrestees in Austin by A pilot program to divert mentally ill suspects from Texas’ Travis County Jail (TCJ) in Austin opened in March 2024. Inspired by the success of similar efforts in Miami and Nashville, county Judge Andy Brown corralled a coalition …
Tennessee DOC Rewards CoreCivic with Pay Increase Despite Critical Watchdog Audit by When Tennessee lawmakers adopted a new $52.8 billion state budget on April 18, 2024, it hiked outlays for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to $233 million, a $9.8 million increase that mostly went to private prison giant …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
46 New York Prisoners Accuse Guards of Beatings—Even Waterboarding by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 29, 2023, New York state prisoners Eugene Taylor, 32, and Charles Wright, 44, filed separate lawsuits alleging that guards with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) beat and waterboarded them …
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