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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption
Missouri Prison Nurse Sentenced to 12 Years for Poisoning Husband by On June 25, Amy Murray, a 46-year-old former prison nurse in Miller County, received a 12-year sentence after she entered an Alford plea—a guilty plea in which the defendant maintains innocence—around charges related to poisoning her husband, Joshua, and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Prison Gerrymandering Alive and Well in Oklahoma by Chuck Sharman As states across the country push to end “prison gerrymandering”—the U.S. Census practice of counting prisoners in the typically rural and white areas where they are held, thereby diluting the voting power of the urban and non-white areas that they …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
DOJ Tables Controversial Kentucky Prison to Claw Back $500 Million Budget by Since 2006, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers has worked to bring a new prison to a former strip-mining site in Eastern Kentucky. Although previous budget proposals turned down the project, Rogers was able to secure $500 million in federal …
Delaware’s ACLU Files Action on Behalf Of Six Prisoners Assaulted During Midnight Raid by Anthony Accurso On behalf of six prisoners in Delaware, the ACLU filed a civil rights complaint against a Warden and his Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) for assaults and abuse that occurred during a midnight raid. …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former California Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Planting Contraband He Pretended to Discover by Avelino Ramirez, 52, worked at the San Quentin State Prison from 2013 to 2022, according to his plea agreement. In 2022, he was promoted to K-9 sergeant and transferred to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. …
California Attorney Disbarred for Deceiving Prisoners Seeking Resentencing by Chuck Sharman Los Angeles attorney Aaron Spolin pleaded no contest to misconduct on June 17, 2025, agreeing to be stripped of his law license because he “promoted false hopes in his clients and their families that the clients’ sentences would be …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Qualified Immunity Denied for Iowa Prison Doctor’s MRI Delay for Non-Medical Reasons by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a prison doctor who delayed the scheduling of a prisoner’s MRI due to the prisoner’s upcoming parole hearing and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
HRDC Wins Consent Decree, $350,000 in Jail Censorship Suit against California’s Sonoma County by Chuck Sharman On June 2, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a consent decree settling demands for injunctive relief filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) against California’s Sonoma County …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Public Records Act
$3,800 Paid to Ohio Prisoner for Denied Records Request by Chuck Sharman In a letter dated July 8, 2024, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) confirmed a $2,800 settlement with state prisoner Trevor J. Teagarden, resolving claims for denied public records requests made to the state Department of Rehabilitation and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Guaranteed Basic Income Programs for Prisoners Reduce Food Insecurity and Homelessness by Anthony Accurso The cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Durham, North Carolina, experimented with providing guaranteed basic income (GBI) to prisoners who were reentering the community, and have released information about the outcomes created by the program. Both programs …
Ongoing Detainee Deaths Push Rikers Island into Federal Court Receivership by Anthony Accurso When 27-year-old Dashawn Jenkins died in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on April 1, 2025, it was the fifth detainee death of the year and at least the 38th since Mayor Eric Adams (D) took …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
DHS Removed Sanctuary Cities List After Complaint from Sheriff’s Association by On June 1, 2025, the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed a list of sanctuary cities it had highlighted on its website, after the National Sheriffs’ Association complained that its publication could jeopardize local law enforcement agencies’ relationship …
$550,000 Settlement After Juvenile’s Suicide at Charlotte Jail by David Reutter On January 2, 2025, a settlement was signed by the Plaintiff in a lawsuit over the suicide of a juvenile pretrial detainee held at the lockup in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County. Under the terms of the agreement, the County …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Solving the Carceral Understaffing Crisis: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Most prison systems and jails are understaffed, with serious consequences for both the keepers and the kept. In facilities with too few guards, staff members typically have to work longer hours or multiple shifts in higher-stress, more dangerous …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail by On May 6, 2025, the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a non-profit law firm, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) over the practice of intercepting mail between prisoners and their attorneys. The …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Alabama’s Oldest Prisoner Dies in Hospital by Floyd Lee Coleman, 106, passed away on May 19, 2025, at a hospital near the William Donaldson Correctional Facility, where he was a prisoner in Bessemer, Alabama. Coleman, who had spent more than forty-five years locked up, was the state’s oldest prisoner—and likely …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former Death Row Prisoner Whose Case Changed the Law Dies in Texas by A prisoner at the center of the 2007 decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) to raise the bar for executing people who are mentally ill died in June 2025. Scott Panetti, 67, who was …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Kentucky Supreme Court Voids Prisoner’s $10,972 Jail Fee by David Reutter Striking a rare blow for fairness, the Supreme Court of Kentucky issued a ruling on February 25, 2025, reversing the imposition of $10,972 in jail fees upon Dillian Ford at his criminal sentencing in Carlisle County Circuit Court. Because …
Class-Action Suit at BOP “Rape Club” in California Settled for Record $116 Million by After it was signed into law in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 147 § 15601 et seq., remained unused for a decade while standards were developed and implemented to curtail rape …
Former Prisoner Informant Appointed Deputy Director of BOP by On June 5, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) tapped Tennessee businessman Joshua J. Smith, 50, to serve as Deputy Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Smith, whom Trump pardoned in his first term, is the first former prisoner …
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