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Jury Deadlocks at Trial of Last BOP Guard Accused at California “Rape Club” by A jury deadlocked in federal court for the Northern District of California on April 14, 2025, leading Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to declare a mistrial for Darrell Wayne Smith, 55, a former federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 7, 2024, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $24 million settlement for two California men who were wrongly convicted as teenagers of …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
Los Angeles County Jails Record Almost One Death Every Nine Days by Los Angeles County jails counted 87 deaths of prisoners and detainees in 813 days since the beginning of 2023, according to a report by the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice on March 25, 2025. The high mortality rate …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Two California Prisoners Accused of Strangling Conjugal Visitors by The death of a woman during a conjugal visit with her husband incarcerated at California’s Mule Creek State Prison was ruled a homicide by the Coroner’s Bureau of the Amador County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) on March 17, 2025. David Brinson, 54, …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Ninth Circuit: No Exception to Due Diligence in Discovery Even for “Conclusive Evidence” by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On August 27, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a $500,000 jury award for a Los Angeles Lakers basketball fan shot with a rubber …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: State Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Arianna Kimberly Slater faces life in prison after she was arrested while attempting to smuggle contraband into Ventress Correctional Facility on February 24, 2025. According to the Birmingham News, a routine employee screening of Slater’s food container found unspecified …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
California Stops Raiding Released Prisoners’ Gate Money by California prisoners will benefit from a policy change announced by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on December 4, 2024. Bowing to pressure from politicians, as well as a class action lawsuit, the CDCR will no longer garnish gate money …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$1.35 Million in Settlements for One-Legged San Francisco Detainee Forced to Hop—Twice by On March 4, 2025, the City and County of San Francisco approved an $825,000 settlement with Vincent Bell, a one-legged city jail detainee who sued over an outrageous 2018 incident in which a guard supervisor forced him …
Brief • March 11, 2025
Bell v. City and County of San Francisco, CA, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2025 FILE NO. 250004 1 ORDINANCE NO. 025-25 [Settlement of Lawsuit - Vincent Keith Bell - $825,000] 2 3 Ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Vincent Keith Bell against the 4 City and County of San …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of excessive force, falsifying records and witness tampering on January 28, 2025. According to the Washington Post, the charges stem from an October 2021 incident in which …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
No Evacuations for Los Angeles Prisoners in Wildfire’s Path by As the Hughes fire exploded over more than 10,000 acres of Los Angeles County on January 23, 2025, Sheriff Robert Luna issued evacuation orders to some 31,000 residents in and around the town of Castaic. But no such orders were …
Ninth and Tenth Circuits Find Bivens Extension Orders Not Immediately Appealable by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits recently held that the government may not immediately appeal a district court’s order extending to new factual scenarios that the exemption …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Censorship, HRDC Litigation
HRDC Files Suit Over Censorship in California Jail by On January 10, 2025, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), non-profit publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News (CLN), filed suit in federal court for the Northern District of California against Sonoma County and its Sheriff Eddie Engram, as well as …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Former California Guard Convicted On 64 Counts of Sexually Abusing Prisoners by Former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard Gregory Rodriguez, 56, was convicted on January 14, 2025, of raping nearly two dozen prisoners at California Women’s Prison in Chowchilla between 2014 and 2022. Though reports of his …
Settlement Bars Family Separations at U.S. Border Until 2031, Pays $6.4 Million in Legal Fees and Costs by On November 5, 2024, the federal court for the Southern District of California approved a settlement under which the United States government agreed to pay $6,411,664.07 in legal fees and costs incurred …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
California Lawmakers Address CDCR’s Banned Book List by Corrections officials usually limit what prisoners are allowed to read. A 2022 report by the nonprofit Marshall Project found that half the United States maintains lists of prohibited publications. California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has some 3,000 disapproved books and …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
San Francisco Supervisor Calls for “Mass Arrests” and Compulsory Addiction Treatment in “Drug Jails” by In a letter of inquiry submitted on January 3, 2025, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey (D) called for “mass arrests” of addicts and their incarceration in “drug jails,” where they would be forced …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
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