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Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed dismissal of Connecticut prisoner’s complaint over an assault he suffered in a Virginia lockup where …
Brief • April 24, 2025
Lake v. CoreCivic, Inc.,MT, Verdict, Failure to Protect, 2025 Case 4:21-cv-00116-BMM Document 102 Filed 04/24/25 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STA TES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA GREAT FALLS DIVISION No. 4:21-CV-00116-BMM NATHANIEL LAKE, Plaintiff, VERDICT FORM v. CORECIVIC, INC. d/b/a CROSSROADS CORRECTIONAL CENTER, Defendant. We, …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Deaths, Deplorable Conditions, Staff Misconduct Plague Memphis Jail by Memphis, the largest city in Tennessee’s Shelby County, is known for several things. Elvis Presley’s former residence, Graceland, is a popular tourist attraction, as are bars and nightlife attractions on Beale Street, the epicenter of world-renowned jazz and blues music. The …
$2.5 Million Settlement After South Carolina Jail Detainee Lost 2 Lbs.Per Day and Died by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A settlement filed in federal court for the District of South Carolina on September 3, 2024, brought a resolution to a lawsuit filed by the survivors of a Greenville …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
TDCJ to Run Out of Beds in 2025 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Sunset Advisory Commission, an oversight body for Texas government agencies, published a 189-page report in September 2024 that found persistent critical staffing shortages are making Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisons unsafe for staff …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Eighth Amendment
Eighth Circuit: Arkansas Prisoner Who Had Consensual Sex With Guard Cannot Sustain Eighth Amendment Claim by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 20, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a prisoner’s consensual sexual encounters with a guard cannot, as a matter of …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
“Swing or Kick Rocks”: BOP Guard Alleges Conspiracy to Brutalize Prisoners at Kentucky Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Lt. Terry L. Melvin was not the first to admit brutalizing a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Big Sandy, Kentucky. But with his guilty plea …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing
No State Oversight of Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Non-Compliant Idaho Jails by A news report by nonprofit media organization InvestigateWest on October 12, 2024, revealed something startling about Idaho: “Unlike most states,” the report said, there is no regulatory oversight of local jails—meaning “[s]heriffs and jail commanders set their own standards.” …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
DOJ Finds “Horrific” Unconstitutional Conditions at Atlanta Jail by The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta has long been known for high levels of violence and abysmal conditions, concerns that were validated on November 14, 2024. That’s when a 105-page investigative report was issued by the United States Dept. of Justice …
Tenth Alabama Jail Employee Pleads Guilty in Detainee’s Freezing Death by On February 11, 2025, Megan Johnson, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the civil rights of detainee Anthony “Tony” Mitchell when she failed to keep him from freezing to death at …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Peters Fights Dismissal from BOP, Guards Lose Bonus Pay by The election of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) has thrown the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into turmoil. As PLN reported, former Director Collette Peters resigned just hours after the inauguration on January 20, 2025. [See: PLN, Feb. 2025, p.10.] …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Tiede v. Collier, TX, Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2025 Case 1:23-cv-01004-RP Document 202 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 91 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION BERNHARDT TIEDE, II; TEXAS PRISONS COMMUNITY ADVOCATES; BUILD UP, INC. a/k/a JUSTICE IMPACTED WOMEN’S ALLIANCE; TEXAS CITIZENS …
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
En Banc Fifth Circuit Reverses Panel, Holds Mississippi Felon Disenfranchisement Does Not Violate Eighth Amendment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed an earlier holding by a three-judge panel of the Court, which found that § 241 …
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 …
DOJ Finds “Horrific and Inhumane” Conditions in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke "People are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed,” lockups where “[i]nmates are maimed, tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not-so-benign neglect.” So began …
U.S. Justice Department Investigating Tennessee CoreCivic Prison After Mother of Murdered Prisoner Reaches Settlement by Pointing to “reports of staffing shortages, physical and sexual assaults, murders and a 188% turnover rate among prison guards just last year,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 20, 2024, that …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Staffing
Could the Prison Staffing Crisis Lead to More Oversight? by Much has been reported about the prison staffing crisis in the United States. But by the end of 2024, a curious trend was emerging: In 16 states that year, lawmakers considered 31 correctional oversight bills. In Washington, which already had …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Number of Texas Detainees Jailed Out-of-County Doubled in Five Years by A June 2024 Texas Tribune analysis found that the number of detainees shipped to jails outside the county of their arrest had more than doubled in five years to a total of 4,358, up from 2,078 in June 2019. …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Arizona Prisoner’s Heat-Related Death by The family of Monnie Washburn moved one step closer to holding Arizona prison officials accountable for his preventable heat-related death. On September 10, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of …
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