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Federal Injunction Bars ICE from Crowding Detainees in Unsanitary “Hold” Rooms in New York City Office by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Blocked from seeing attorneys. Left to sleep on the floor under blazing lights. Sharing a 215-square-foot cell with 89 others. Women forced to menstruate without pads and wear …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
North Carolina Prison Officials Run Out the Clock On Trans Prisoner’s Vulvoplasty by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Even as some states successfully move to strip hormone therapy and other gender-related care from trans prisoners, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina twice ruled against state …
Seventh Circuit Dismisses Jail Detainee Suicide Case for Lack of Showing Deliberate Indifference by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso On July 29, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a case brought against a Wisconsin county jail relating to a detainee’s suicide, …
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Prisoner’s Eligibility for Time Credits by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a prisoner must have been convicted of the death-resulting enhancement element of 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(C) before that enhancement may be applied …
$150,000 Paid by Jacksonville for Mother of Five’s Jail Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under an agreement filed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 10, 2025, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters agreed to pay $150,000 to the Estate of Esther Truax, a …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Ordered to Provide Programming for Pregnant Prisoners—34 Years After Law Was Passed by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections (DOC) was ordered on February 25, 2025, to immediately implement policy changes placing pregnant prisoners in the least restrictive environment possible, as well as allowing them …
While Mentally Ill Rikers Island Detainee Lay Dying, Staff Sprayed Air Freshener, Fudged Cell Checks by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Surveillance video from New York City’s Rikers Island jail captured staffers flouting policy and ignoring detainee Ardit Billa, 29, as he lay dying in a cell in August 2025, …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
$1.8 Million Settlement Reached Following CDCR Data Breach by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In January 2022, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) reported that unidentified hackers breached its computer systems, exposing sensitive information of some 236,000 state prisoners and parolees. On April 25, 2025, a Sacramento state …
Barbaric and Deadly Conditions Continue to Plague Los Angeles County Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Horrendous conditions inside Los Angeles County Jails, described as “barbaric” in a recent law suit, continue to plague those facilities and at least 122 detainee deaths since January 2023 show these conditions are …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Sixth Circuit Clarifies What Constitutes PLRA “Strike” and Reinstates Michigan Prisoner’s Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 25, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit clarified what constitutes a “strike” for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s (PLRA) “three-strikes” rule, 28 U.S.C. …
New York Jury Convicts Former Guard for Robert Brooks’ Taped Killing by On October 20, 2025, a jury convicted a former prison guard of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old prisoner at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. David Kingsley, the convicted guard, …
Florida Sheriff Fires Five Guards for Two Cases of Detainee Abuse by Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced on October 29, 2025, that he fired five high-ranking guards, following two separate instances of abuse toward detainees locked up at the county jail. According to Gualtieri, one incident involved a woman …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
BOP Cancels Union Rights for Prison Guards by More than 30,000 federal prison guards lost collective bargaining rights when, on September 25, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it was canceling its union contract with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the umbrella union that represents the …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
California Approves Higher Wage for Prisoner Firefighters (But Still Underpays) by On October 13, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed off on a raise for incarcerated firefighters, bringing their pay rate up to $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage. Before the bill (AB 247) became law, the firefighters …
For Delay in Summoning Medical Care for Detainees, Alabama Jailers Granted Immunity But California Trooper Headed to Trial by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Two federal appeals courts recently considered cases involving delays in summoning care for detainees in medical distress. In one, the Administrator of Alabama’s Clarke County Jail …
Securus Loses Bid to Dismiss HRDC Price-Fixing Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 11, 2025, Securus Technologies was denied a motion to dismiss claims filed against the prison telecom giant and its JPay subsidiary, alleging they colluded with competitor Global*Tel Link (GTL), now known as ViaPath Technologies, …
$2.4 Million Paid to Indiana Prisoners Sickened With Legionnaire’s Disease by Contaminated Water by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a letter dated September 10, 2025, attorneys for a group of more than 500 prisoners at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility announced a $2.4 million settlement of claims arising from an …
Seventh Circuit Rules Against Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Claim Over Wexford Health’s Poor Psychiatric Care by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Cordell Sanders spent eight years in segregation housing at the Pontiac Center in Indiana after committing multiple disciplinary offenses. While being held apart from others, he suffered from severe mental …
CoreCivic Pays $82,500 for First COVID-19 Death at San Diego ICE Lockup by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman   Back in January 2020, Carlos Escobar Mejia, 57, was in a car in San Diego when he was pulled over by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents. Though he …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
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Body-Worn Camera Program for Guards Expands to all Maryland Prisons by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Expanding on a pilot program begun in February 2025, Maryland lawmakers have moved to require a body-worn camera (BWC) for use by all guards in the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services …
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