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Virginia Parole Board Skirts New Transparency Rules, Governor Walks Back Expanded Sentence Credits—Again by Parole-eligible Virginia prisoners face one of the nation’s stingiest boards. So state lawmakers made parole decisions more transparent with passage of two new laws, the most recent signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on April 4, …
Former South Carolina Jailer Spared Prison After Testimony Fails to Convict Former Sheriff by A former South Carolina jailer who cut a plea deal and testified against his former boss is now the only one of the two to be convicted. But David Andrew Cook, 30, will not spend any …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Philadelphia Agrees to $9.1 Million Settlement for Wrongful Murder Conviction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The City of Philadelphia agreed on November 3, 2023, to pay $9.1 million to settle a wrongful conviction lawsuit brought by Walter Ogrod, 59, a former state prisoner exonerated of murder and released …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Legal Gaffe Prolongs Case of Former St. Louis Detainee Held Eight Months After Dismissal of Charges by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Thomas Clarke On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided a civil rights complaint brought by former St. Louis jail detainee Michael Jones, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Prison Reform, Bail, Bail Bonds
Cuyahoga County Judges Vowed to Reform the Bail System. Here’s What Happened. by Ilica Mahajan, Rachel Dissell by Ilica Mahajan and Rachel Dissell Court officials informally changed their bail-setting practices for felony cases. Now, fewer people have to pay to get out of jail, a Marshall Project analysis shows. I …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
HRDC Files Suit on Behalf of Florida Man Wrongfully Convicted and Incarcerated for 31 Years by On December 5, 2024, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), PLN’s non-profit publisher, in conjunction with attorneys from Loevy & Loevy in Chicago, filed a federal civil rights suit on behalf of Tony Hopps, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
U.S. Navy Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Black WWII Sailors by The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco. On the …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
California Governor Pardons Former Prisoner Podcaster of “Ear Hustle” by One of 17 pardons granted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on November 27, 2024, went to former San Quentin prisoner Earlonne Woods, 53, a host of the popular Ear Hustle podcast that he helped start from his cell in …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nearly $12 Million Paid to Mentally Disabled Indiana Prisoner Wrongly Convicted of Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 8, 2023, the Indiana city of Elkhart agreed to pay former state prisoner Andrew Royer, then 44, nearly $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed over his wrongful murder …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Fifth Circuit Leaves Louisiana Prisoner Waiting for Reinstated Parole by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released a mandate it earlier withheld, which in turn ordered the release of Louisiana prisoner Samuel K. Galbraith—nearly eight years after he …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Michigan Supreme Court Greenlights Adding Restitution At Resentencing of Former Juveniles Sentenced to LWOP by On July 8, 2024, the Supreme Court of Michigan held that imposing a new restitution obligation—by retroactive application of restitution statutes enacted after a criminal defendant committed his underlying offense—could nevertheless happen during a resentencing …
Oregon Supreme Court: Governor Can’t Revoke Commutation After Sentence Expires by In a bizarre case of Orwellian government overreach, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) reincarcerated former state prisoner Terri Lee Brown for a parole violation after her parole ended. But on May 8, 2024, the Oregon Supreme Court slapped …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
California Prisoner Awarded Over $1.26 Million in Suit Challenging Withheld Legal Mail Which Resulted in Habeas Loss by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 12, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of state prisoner Anthony Penton, adding $788,744.97 to an …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Federal Prisoners on Death Row by On December 23, 2024, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) commuted the sentences of all but three federal prisoners facing execution. The 37 prisoners receiving commutations will now serve life in custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons …
After Florida Appellate Court Holds Crimes of ‘Attempt’ Eligible for Incentive Gain Time, Supreme Court Refuses Review by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On November 14, 2024, Florida’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to an appellate court ruling that exempted …
Brief • December 20, 2024
Filed under: Overdetention
USA v. The State of Louisiana, LA, Complaint, Overdetention, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-01041-BAJ-RLB Document 1 12/20/24 Page 1 of 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. COMPLAINT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA and THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS, CIVIL ACTION NO. …
Washington Court of Appeals: No Reimbursement for Community Service Performed for Vacated Conviction by In a pair of cases decided in October 2024, the Court of Appeals of Washington held that defendants are not entitled to reimbursement for community service work that they performed in lieu of paying cash to …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
New York Court of Appeals (Lightly) Slaps State Prison Officials for Holding Sex Offenders Past Release by On April 25, 2024, New York’s highest court took up a challenge brought by sex offenders confined in residential treatment facilities beyond expiration of their prison sentences. The result: A puny demand that …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
$46 Million Paid to Exonerated Missouri Prisoner Wrongfully Incarcerated for 10 Years by On November 1, 2024, a Missouri jury returned a $37.9 million verdict against Travelers Indemnity Company in favor of an exonerated state prisoner after the insurance giant balked at covering an $11 million settlement of his wrongful …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Fifth Circuit Judges Battle in Louisiana Over-Detention Cases by The State of Louisiana cannot manage to correctly calculate release dates for those it incarcerates, leaving prisoners held weeks and months beyond expiration of their sentences. These over-detention cases, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit calls them, …
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