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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired by Almost four months after escaping Blair County Prison, jail detainee Isaiah Tilghman, 33, was arrested on March 22, 2024, while headed into a Planet Fitness gym near Philadelphia, over 200 miles from the western Pennsylvania lockup he fled …
Over 5,000 Prisoners Federally Sentenced Every Month by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In the nine months ending on June 30, 2023, there were 47,931 sentences for federal crime, driving more than 5,000 prisoners into custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons every month, according to data released by the …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence at California Prison Leaves One Dead, Another Stabbed by One California prisoner was killed, another wounded and three others charged in two separate prisoner-on-prisoner assaults—one of them fatal—at Kern Valley State Prison, most recently on October 6, 2023. That’s when the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an 1829 letter, Pres. Andrew Jackson (D) told the Creek Nation of Indigenous Americans that he was speaking “straight, and not with a forked tongue” when he promised those who evacuated from Alabama …
Sentencing Project Proposes Remedies for Racial Disparities Behind Bars by In a report published on October 11, 2023, the nonprofit Sentencing Project noted that the lifetime risk of incarceration for Black men in the U.S. fell from one in three in 1981 to one in five in 2021. However, all …
As ICE Data Errors Persist, GEO Group Cashes In by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University reveal that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to struggle with accurate reporting of the number of migrants it tracks through its …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Sentencing Project Finds “Important Inroads” Against Mass Incarceration, Racial Inequality Behind Bars by October 11, 2023, the Sentencing Project reported that the share of Black men who will experience incarceration at some point in life has declined from one in three for those born in 1981 to one in five …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
428 Georgia Prison Employees Criminally Charged in Five Years by On February 28, 2024, prisoner advocates held a press conference outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, demanding that state lawmakers address twin afflictions in the state’s beleaguered Department of Corrections (DOC), whose 51,000 prisoners now represent its highest population …
Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter David M. Reutter One alternative to incarceration that criminal justice reformers clamor for is probation or parole. A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counted nearly 3.7 million people in the U.S. under some form of community …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days by
Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s orders granting California prisoners a pair of 12-month extensions to a Settlement Agreement …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports by Facing charges including attempted murder, assault and robbery, Christopher Lee Pray, 39, was being evaluated for fitness to stand trial on August 30, 2023, when he commandeered an Oregon State Hospital (OSH) transport van returning him from a …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Serial Killer Murdered by Cellmate at Texas Lockup by Texas prisoner Billy Chemirmir, 50, was serving two life without parole sentences for murder when cellmate Wyatt Ellis Busby killed him on September 19, 2023, during an altercation in their cell at the H.H. Coffield Unit in Tennessee Colony. Chemirmir was …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner by On February 15, 2024, the Tampa City Council approved a $14 million settlement with Robert DuBoise, 59, a man who spent 37 years wrongfully imprisoned for a 1983 rape and murder he didn’t commit thanks to the two leading causes …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Nine Guilty So Far in Sprawling California Aryan Brotherhood Case by On January 3, 2024, California state prisoner and Aryan Brotherhood (AB) member Patrick “Big Pat” Brady, 53, pleaded guilty in federal court for the Northern District of California to murdering a fellow prisoner at High Desert State Prison (HDSP). …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Three L.A. Jail Gang Leaders Murdered by A high-ranking member of the Mexican Mafia jail gang was murdered in Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail on August 4, 2023. The fatal stabbing of Joseph Hutchinson, 51, came just weeks after fellow gang member Michael Torres, 59, was also stabbed to …
Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless” by In a weird-but-true story that’s oddly fitting for Alabama’s wretched prison system, the body of a state prisoner murdered on November 16, 2023, was returned to his survivors five days later without a heart. That is the claim of a lawsuit filed in federal …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Virginia Leads the Nation in K-9 Attacks on Prisoners by An attack dog bites with enough force to puncture sheet metal. That same bite in human flesh is horrifyingly painful, leaving mental as well as physical trauma. Yet in the prison systems of eight states, attack-trained “K-9” dogs have been used …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction by In June 2023, a judge in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah County overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Dority, 65, after the state prisoner spent his COVID-19 stimulus check to hire a private investigator, who then got a key witness to recant his …
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