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$500,000 Settlement for Colorado Prisoner Forced to Defecate in Bucket for 12 Days by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 14, 2023, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $500,000 to resolve a state prisoner’s allegation that his Eighth Amendment guarantee of freedom from cruel and …
Autistic Detainee’s Death in Pittsburgh Jail Blamed on “Culture” That Left Him “Punished Instead of Treated” by In a suit filed against Pittsburgh’s Alle­gheny County Jail on October 17, 2023, the survivors of a 57-year-old autistic detainee allege his death in custody was the preventable result of a jail “culture” …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Escapes
Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged by A two-day manhunt ended on March 21, 2024, with the capture of escaped Idaho prisoner Skylar Meade, 31. Three alleged accomplices have also been arrested, including fellow Aryan Knights gang member Nicholas Umphenour, 28, who was held before his January 2024 release …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Southern California Jail Guard Arrested With 104 Pounds of Fentanyl by The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced on April 24, 2024, that a months-long California operation targeting the Mexican drug cartel once run by the man known as “el Chapo” had resulted in the arrests of 15 people allegedly …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Six Deaths in Just Over Six Months at Alabama Jail by With the death of Elvin Craig Stacy, 63, on January 2, 2024, Alabama’s Mobile Metro Jail had racked up six detainee deaths in just over six months. The spate of deaths began on June 26, 2023, when Ernest James …
Arizona Sheriff Accused of Misusing Detainee Funds to Buy Guns, Ammo by Since Mark Lamb became Sheriff of Arizona’s Pinal County in 2017, at least $217,000 from a jail commissary fund intended for the benefit of detainees has been diverted to buy weaponry and ammunition, in apparent violation of state …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Three Texas Prison Guards Among 13 Charged in Sprawling Smuggling Scheme by On December 19, 2023, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas provided details about a sealed indictment filed in federal court there the previous month, naming three defendants accused of abusing their positions as prison guards …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Washington Superior Court Says Jail Cannot Bill Poor Detainees for Medical Care by by Douglas Ankney On April 17, 2023, Judge Kevin S. Naught of Washington’s Yakima County Superior Court ruled that Kittitas County Corrections Center (KCCC) was in violation of state law when it held detainees responsible for repaying …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Pennsylvania Jail Warden Fired, Deputy Warden Resigns After Guard Assaults Detainee by Warden Dave Gallagher of Pennsylvania’s Clearfield County Jail was fired and escorted off the job on December 7, 2023, just over a month after Deputy Warden Eric Bush resigned on October 28, 2023. Their departures follow an alleged …
Qualified Immunity Denied to Former New Mexico Warden in Prisoner’s Sexual Abuse Claim by On October 6, 2023, the federal court for the District of New Mexico stood fast in its refusal to grant qualified immunity (QI) to a defendant warden with the state Corrections Department (NMCD) in a prisoner’s …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Was There a Plot to Discredit Former Missouri Sheriff Investigating Corruption? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Jeff Burkett resigned as Sheriff of Missouri’s Iron County on January 31, 2024, saying if he stayed to defend a civil suit filed to remove him from office, his testimony might undermine his …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Wyoming Supreme Court Grants Immunity to DOC in Prison COVID-19 Vaccine Mix-Up by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of Wyoming held that the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act shielded the state from liability in a lawsuit alleging a nurse …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Telephone Rates
Massachusetts Makes Calls Free From Prisons and Jails by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed H. 1796 on November 15, 2023, making hers the fifth state in the nation to eliminate fees for prison and jail phone calls. When the law took effect on December 1, 2023, the state joined Connecticut, …
“There you go, Agent Orange!” Former South Carolina Sheriff Federally Indicted for Assaulting Jail Detainee by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Charles B. Lemon, the former Sheriff of South Carolina’s Marlboro County, pleaded not guilty on February 6, 2024, to federal civil rights charges laid out in an indictment unsealed …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Second Circuit Grants New York Officials Qualified Immunity for Prisoner’s Stolen Sentence Credits by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 12, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown by Promising a “return to normal operations status as soon as possible” at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, the federal Bureau of Prisons insisted on March 28, 2024, that the 1,837 prisoners held there still have access to food, water and medical care …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
California Law Extends Involuntary Commitment and Detention to Substance Abusers by For years, California has struggled with a growing homeless population, reaching 171,000 in late 2023. Though that’s less than one-half of 1% of state residents, lawmakers responded with reforms to the state’s mental health system in SB 43, which …
Ninth Circuit Affirms Class Action Consent Decree at California’s Alameda County Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a consent decree in a class-action lawsuit filed over solitary confinement of mentally ill detainees at the …
HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case by On March 27, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted in part and denied in part the Human Rights Defense Center’s (HRDC) motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action it filed …
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