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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Michigan Judge Sued for Jailing Teen Who Nodded Off While Watching in Court by In an amended complaint filed in federal court for the Eastern District of Michigan on December 30, 2024, the mother of a 15-year-old girl accused a state judge of violating the child’s civil rights when he …
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, …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
$100,000 Settlement Reached in New York Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Suit, After Jury for First Time Finds Practice Violates Eighth Amendment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2024, the state of New York agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the state had violated …
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree Edmo filed suit in 2017 seeking gender-confirming surgery. She suffered from an extreme case of gender dysphoria—a recognized medical condition—and had repeatedly attempted self-castration. As PLN …
Filing • February 24, 2025
HRDC v. Baxter County, AR, Censorship, Appeal, 2025 United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 23-1888 ___________________________ Human Rights Defense Center Plaintiff - Appellee v. Baxter County, Arkansas Defendant - Appellant -----------------------------Clark-Fox Family Foundation; The Marshall Project; Prison Journalism Project; Arch City Defenders; Missourians to Abolish …
Brief • February 24, 2025
HRDC v. Baxter County, AR, Censorship, Appeal, 2025 United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 23-1888 ___________________________ Human Rights Defense Center Plaintiff - Appellee v. Baxter County, Arkansas Defendant - Appellant -----------------------------Clark-Fox Family Foundation; The Marshall Project; Prison Journalism Project; Arch City Defenders; Missourians to Abolish …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Seventh Circuit Offers Wisconsin Prisoner Just a Little Help in Suit Alleging He Was Held in Feces-Stained Cell Without Water by On June 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit partially vacated a summary judgment dismissal of a Wisconsin prisoner’s civil rights suit alleging that …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Historic $7 Million Settlement in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Prisoner’s Fatal Beating by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 20, 2024, the Wayne County Commission in Detroit approved a $5 million payment on top of $2 million paid by the County’s insurer to settle a lawsuit brought by the …
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 …
USDC (D. Oregon), Case No. 6:22-cv-00451 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 5, 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a notice of settlement in court indicating that it paid $135,000 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit accusing a guard of intentionally allowing other prisoners into his cell …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
$220,000 Settlement After Woman Dies in Ohio Jail From Drug Withdrawal by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso With signing of a settlement agreement on September 11, 2024, Ohio’s Richland County was on the hook for $220,000 to the estate of detainee Maggie Copeland, who died while experiencing withdrawal symptoms …
New Mexico Corrections Department Continues Pattern of Abuse With Contract Medical Provider Wexford Health Sources by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford As PLN reported, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has for many years outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide healthcare to those it confines, contracting the service from private, …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
$9.9 Million Paid to Washington Prisoner Whose Misdiagnosed Cancer Is Now Terminal by On January 31, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay a former prisoner and her family $9.9 million for failing to diagnose and treat her uterine cancer, leaving the disease to spread and become …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Oregon Pays $50,000 to Settle Retaliation Suit by PLN Contributor, Who Wins Release by In March 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by PLN contributing writer Mark Wilson, paying him $50,000 and vacating a prior prison disciplinary finding. Less than a year …
Philadelphia Held in Contempt of Jail Conditions Settlement, Ordered to Pay $25 Million by On July 12, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held the City of Philadelphia in contempt of a 2022 settlement in which its Department of Prisons (PDP) agreed to improve …
Fourth Circuit Revives Claims Against Virginia Jailers by Detainee They Allegedly Manhandled While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On July 8, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Virginia’s Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Harvey Weinstein Files Notice of Claim Over Rikers Island Detention by In a Notice of Claim filed against New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) on November 26, 2024, lawyers for disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein said that their client has suffered at least $5 million in damages …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Monterey County Pays $1 Million to Settle Suit Over Detainee Suicide by Toilet Tissue; Wellpath Pays Another Undisclosed Sum by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 18, 2024, the United States Court for the Northern District of California approved a series of settlements totaling $1 million that resolved a …
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 …
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