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Fifth Circuit: Texas Prisoner’s Declaration Alone Sufficient to Send PLRA Exhaustion Dispute to Trial by On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a Texas prisoner’s uncorroborated declaration outlining steps he took to exhaust administrative remedies through the state Department of Criminal Justice …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Pardons/Clemency
Hope Against Hope by Daryl Waters by Daryl Waters A candid portrait of the experience of obtaining clemency in Louisiana—a route to freedom now severely threatened by a new carceral governor. When the team of filmmakers behind the Visiting Room Project approached Daryl Waters about making a short profile of …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Transgender Maryland Prisoner’s Suit Accuses Guard of Shower Rape by On October 2, 2023, transgender Maryland prisoner Dmitry Pronin, known now as Leyleen Lillith Aquino, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, alleging that she was raped in a state prison shower …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
Missouri Muslim Prisoners Advance Suit Against Guards For Assault During Prayer by Douglas Ankney by Doug Ankney   On December 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted only part of a motion by defendant state prison officials to dismiss a complaint filed by Muslim …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Tyree Lynette Hoyle, 36, resigned from her guard job with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) after her arrest for contraband smuggling on April 24, 2024. The Birmingham News reported that Hoyle allegedly met an unnamed fellow guard in November 2023 at the Montgomery Zoo, …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup by A former guard supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison on December 6, 2023, for covering up three prisoner assaults by fellow guards. The …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Decoding Recidivism: Unraveling Its Complex Metrics and Real Impact by When the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) reported a drop in the recidivism rate for its state prisoners on December 15, 2023, it joined prison systems in Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia that have also celebrated lower recidivism rates. …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months by On December 19, 2023, the federal court for the Northern District of Alabama sentenced former state prison guard supervisor Mohammad Jenkins, 52, to seven years and three months in federal prison for assaulting two handcuffed prisoners at William …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
“Botched” and “Ill-Conceived”: BOP Slammed for Plan to Close California Lockup Known as “Rape Club” by One month after the federal court for the Northern District of California made the first-ever appointment of a special master to oversee rulings to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the agency announced on …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Retaliation Claim By Federal Prisoner Against Guard in Illinois Lockup Who Saw Grievance Against Him by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke   On November 28, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit declined to let a federal prisoner sue officials with the …
Oregon Parole Board Ordered to Consider Sex-Offense-Free Time When Setting Sex Offender Notification Levels by On November 28, 2023, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a determination by the state Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision that denied a former state prisoner relief from registration as a sex offender without …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Sham Accreditations by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   In November 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published an audit of the $2.75 million contract awarded to the American Correctional Association (ACA) by DOJ’s Bureau …
Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations by The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s Division of State Audit released a performance audit of the state Department of Correction (DOC) on December 12, 2023. Covering a four-year period ending the previous July 31, 2023, the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials of Cook County in a civil rights action …
Eighth Circuit Largely Restores Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guards in Use of Force on Bipolar Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 26, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit largely reversed a lower court and restored qualified immunity (QI) to guards …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Slows the Hand That State DOC Sticks Into Prisoners’ Pockets by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 19, 2023, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled for a prisoner who claimed that the state Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his civil rights by upping the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
West Virginia Slammed for High Costs, Low Quality of Privatized Prison Food by Before food service in West Virginia’s prison system was taken over by Aramark Correctional Services, the nation’s largest for-profit food service provider in prisons and jails, all meals were prepared by prisoners, often using fresh vegetables grown …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
$500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail by According to final judgment entered in federal court for the Southern District of Texas on December 18, 2023, Brazos County paid $500,000 to a former detainee assaulted at the county jail in October 2022. The victim, identified as “A.R.,” was a minor …
$4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   West Virginia Division of Corrections (WVDC) officials agreed to pay $4 million on November 8, 2023, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Southern Regional Jail …
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