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Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Two Ohio Prisoners and Two Guards Tried for Assaults by Two Ohio prisoners have pleaded guilty to assaulting guards, while trials of two other guards accused of assaulting jail detainees in the state resulted in one conviction and one acquittal. On October 25, 2023, Ohio prisoner Drequan K. Abdullah, 24, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dixie Prison Growth Drives Number of Incarcerated Americans Above 2 Million Once Again by After two years of decline driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Americans held in federal and state prisons at the end of 2022 jumped 2% to a total of 1,230,143, according to a November …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison by On December 1, 2023, Harris County, Texas, began sending up to 360 detainees from the county’s jails to a prison in Mississippi, under a contract with its private operator, CoreCivic. The County Commissioners Court approved the $11.3 million …
BOP Has a Halfway House Problem by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has faced challenges in implementing the First Step Act (FSA) since it was signed into law in December 2018 by then-President Donald J. Trump (R). Aimed at reducing prisoner population and associated costs, the law provided sentence …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Florida Prisons Playing “Whack-a-Mole” With Jailbroken Tablets by In an essay published in Slate on December 14, 2023, former Florida prisoner Ryan Moser said that officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) were “essentially playing whack-a-mole” in their efforts to combat an epidemic of “jailbreaking” prison-issued electronic tablets. The …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
More Alabama Prisoners’ Families Say Their Corpses Were Returned Without Organs by More cases have surfaced in which families report organs missing from the bodies of loved ones who died in custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). As PLN reported, the first was the family of Brandon Dotson, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Tuberculosis Outbreak Exposed Weak Washington DOC Response by Washington’s Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department (TPCHD) issued an advisory to healthcare providers on December 13, 2023, to test for tuberculosis in anyone incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) during an outbreak of the disease in 2021. Over 800 people were released from …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Texas Detainee Raped in Jail Sues Macy’s for False Facial-ID Match That Led to Arrest by A lawsuit filed on January 18, 2024, accuses retail giant Macy’s of employing faulty facial recognition technology that falsely identified a Texas man as an armed robbery suspect, landing him in a Houston jail …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island by Transgender Rikers Island jail detainee Dylan “Ali” Miles sued the City of New York and its Department of Correction on August 24, 2023, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with men for two months before …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Drug Overdose
Two Sentenced in Detainee’s Fentanyl Death at North Florida Jail by Two detainees at Florida’s Okaloosa County Jail were sentenced to federal prison on April 5, 2024, for smuggling fentanyl into the lockup and providing it to a detainee, who overdosed and died on Christmas Eve 2022. Gary Chase, 30, …
Conflicting Reports from New Hampshire Prison Officials Before Guard Charged in Psychiatric Detainee’s Death by Former New Hampshire prison guard Matthew Millar, 39, was arrested on February 8, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jason O. Rothe, 50, a detainee in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   This month’s cover article discusses the current state of prison slavery in America. This has been an ongoing topic of coverage for Prison Legal News since we first started in 1990. The legal slave status of American prisoners is currently …
Georgia Prisoner’s Challenge to “Deplorable” Conditions Survives Motion to Dismiss by On October 3, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss filed by defendant state prison officials in a prisoner’s challenge to isolation in conditions he called “deplorable.” While incarcerated at Georgia …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Aramark: Prison Food for Thought by Prisoners caged in lockups where Aramark provides the food service rarely enthuse about great quality meals. So it may come as a surprise that an employee of the firm’s German subsidiary won a Next Chef Award on March 11, 2024. After tasting a dish …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Kilby Correctional Facility (CF) guard Mario Grant resigned from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) after his arrest on February 27, 2024, for allegedly taking bribes by CashApp to smuggle drugs to an unnamed prisoner between July and September 2023. WSFA in Montgomery reported that …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Revocation Proceedings
Eighth Circuit Upholds Key Parts of Missouri Parole Reform by On October 5, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed key parts of a lower court’s ruling instructing the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) to revise its system for revoking parole in order to protect prisoners’ …
Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration by When Illinois prisoner J. Le’Dell Pippins, 54, defied the odds to gain acceptance into the University of Iowa’s Ph.D. in Criminology program, it proved a key factor in the decision by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to commute Pippins’ 30-year …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On August 22, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Alabama declined to dismiss all but a few claims against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) that were made …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Transfers, COVID-19
Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to officials with the California Department …
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