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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
HRDC Collaborates on Prison Telecom Cost Report to Washington Lawmakers by Chuck Sharman A report on prison telecom costs presented to state lawmakers in Washington on December 13, 2024, showed dramatic decreases nationwide in the price of calls from prisons and jails over the past decade. A similar drop was …
Ninth Circuit: Continuing-Violations Doctrine Applies for PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Purposes by David Reutter On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a prisoner “need not file repeated grievances if the (prisoner) has identified one continuing harm or a single course of conduct [of] …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Sixth Circuit Upholds $45 Million Verdict for Wrongfully Convicted Former Ohio Prisoner by Chuck Sharman A $45 million wrongful conviction award to an exonerated Ohio prisoner was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 2, 2025. Miami Township and its Police Department (MTPD) had …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill to Penalize Private Prisons for High Mortality Rates by In April 2025, the Tennessee General Assembly passed SB 1115, legislation that imposes penalties on privately-operated prisons if they have death rates twice as high as the rate at an “equivalent state-operated facility.” The bill was signed …
Ninth Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Claim Based on Guard’s Thwarting of Administrative Remedies by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights action for the failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The Court found the prisoner was “reliably informed” by a …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$1.2 Million for New York Prisoner Waterboarded by Guards by Chuck Sharman On March 25, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of New York granted dismissal to a suit filed by former state prisoner Matthew Raymond, after he accepted a $1.2 million settlement from the state Department of …
Sixth Circuit Order Sealing Records in Private Prison Shareholder Suit Vacated, Remanded by As of 2016, CoreCivic—formerly Corrections Corp. of America—contracted with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to operate five facilities. In August of that year, a report by the Inspector General for the Dept. of Justice found the …
Watchdog Calls Out D.C. for Dragging Feet on Construction of New Jail by Chuck Sharman A report issued by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA) on May 28, 2025, outlined the municipality’s “urgent need for a new jail.” The population of the existing lockup, spread over two adjacent buildings …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Texas Social Workers Challenge Blanket Denial of State Occupational License Based on Youthful Assault Convictions by Matthew Clarke The Institute of Justice (IJ) is helping two Texas women with master’s degrees in social work challenge a 2019 state law that bars anyone with a prior conviction involving the threat or …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$15 Million Settlement Reached in San Diego Jail Detainee’s Untreated Withdrawal Death by Chuck Sharman On September 13, 2024, nearly five years after a detainee died of untreated heroin withdrawal symptoms at San Diego County’s Las Colinas Detention Facility, a $15 million settlement agreement resolving a lawsuit brought by her …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
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Costs of U.S. Incarceration to Families Pegged at Nearly $350 Billion a Year by Chuck Sharman To maintain and operate the prisons and jails that hold nearly 2 million American costs a lot—an estimated $82 billion a year, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Sep. 2023, p.56.] But that is just …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$325,000 Paid to Former Wisconsin Prisoner Whose Cancer Biopsy Was Delayed by Previously Disciplined Doctor by Chuck Sharman On September 19, 2024, Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Mary Kathlin Sickel put the final signature on an agreement paying $325,000 to former state prisoner Darnell Price, settling his claims that a state …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Fourth Circuit Revives Wrongful Conviction Claim of Exonerated Maryland Prisoner, State Pays Him $3.1 Million by Chuck Sharman On January 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reinstated the claim of a now-exonerated Maryland prisoner against a trio of Baltimore cops who allegedly coerced a confession …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Oklahoma Prisoner’s Execution Was Expedited by the Trump Administration by John Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection on the morning of June 12, 2025, and was pronounced dead by 10:11 a.m., reported USA TODAY. Hanson—who received a life sentence for carjacking, kidnapping, and killing Mary Bowles in Tulsa in …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Nebraska Considers Curbing Double-Bunking in Restrictive Housing by Since 2017, at least three prisoners in Nebraska have died of suspected homicides while locked in double-bunked cells. Nebraska, whose prison system routinely operates at 140% capacity, has paid nearly $900,000 in lawsuit settlements related to the deaths, the Flatwater Free Press …
Texas Lawmakers Restrict Bail and Raise Criminal Penalties, Punt on Prison and Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman When the Texas legislature adjourned its annual session on June 2, 2025, lawmakers had taken some steps to restrict bail and successfully fought back an effort to expand parole. Most other jail and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Over Eight Years in Prison for iCare Founder Who Ran Prisoner Gift Basket Scam by Chuck Sharman Robert Rahrle, who took millions of dollars online selling gift baskets for prisoners that were never delivered, was sentenced to a 100-month federal prison term for wire fraud and tax evasion on June …
SCOTUS Clamps Down on Bivens Extension to Prisoner Beaten by BOP Guards at Virginia Lockup by Chuck Sharman On June 30, 2025, a federal prisoner lost his last chance at recovering damages for injuries suffered when he was repeatedly shackled and beaten by guards at the U.S. Penitentiary (USP)—Lee in …
Former Oregon Prison Guard Sergeant Sentenced for Sexually Abusing Imprisoned Women by Matthew Clarke As PLN has extensively reported, the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF), Oregon’s only women’s prison, has been a decades long hotbed of staff sexual abuse. Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) administrators have long known about the …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Two Exonerated Illinois Prisoners Win Settlements Totaling $14.5 Million by Chuck Sharman A pair of former Illinois prisoners, each exonerated after spending 23 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, accepted a total of $14.5 million in settlements from the City of Rockford, which voted in April 2025 …
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