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Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Analysts Recommend Closing California’s Soledad Prison by With California’s declining prison population and a growing state budget deficit, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), a nonpartisan agency that provides policy advice to the state lawmakers, has recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. While the California Department of Corrections and …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Almost $1 Million in Settlements Paid to Three Nevada Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Nevada’s Board of Examiners agreed on January 13, 2026, to payouts totaling $997,500, settling a trio of lawsuits filed by state prisoners. The Board, which consists of Gov. Joe Lombardo (R), Attorney General Aaron …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Unsafe Drinking Water at Multiple Texas Prisons Highlights Lack of Transparency by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) recently published “Unlocking Safe Water in Texas Prisons,” a report on the lack of transparency exhibited by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) when it pumps …
Death of Washington Jail Standards Bill Risks Repeat of $2.5 Million Settlement That Closed One County’s Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Washington will remain one of just a dozen states without oversight or even enforceable standards for jails, after legislation to rectify the problem died on January 30, …
Internal Assessment Contradicts Public Claims About Women’s Prisons by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Michigan’s only women’s prison “is infested with mold,” according to U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy III. Three women incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Hope Zentz, Paula Bailey, and Krystal Clark, are suing the …
Groundbreaking Statistical Study of Pregnant Texas Jail Detainees Finds Over 400 Monthly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Pregnant women in jails are a long-neglected and overlooked population. Federal law does not require detailed statistical tracking of jail pregnancies. “What it symbolizes is that women who don’t count, don’t get …
Eighth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Iowa Jail Detainee’s Suicide by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 6, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reinstated a civil rights lawsuit brought by the parents of an Iowa jail detainee who committed suicide after reporting that he …
New Illinois State Law Requires Prisons to Submit Annual Hospice Reports by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson American prison populations are aging rapidly while studies have continued to show that prisoners have significantly lower life expectancies than those outside of prisons. In Illinois, some 23% of state prisoners are over …
Two Texas Women Charged for Using Plastic Crows in Smuggling Scheme by Two women allegedly used drones and plastic crows filled with contraband in an attempt to smuggle contraband into the United States Penitentiary, Pollock (USP Pollock) in Grant Parish, Louisiana. Melanie Worthington, 38, and Kassy Cole, 41, were arrested …
ICE Taps New Contractor to Run Deadly Detention Center in Texas by In early March, the administration of President Donald Trump (R) announced that it planned to offer a no-bid contract to an engineering and electronic services company to run the United States’s largest immigrant detention center, where one detainee …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Prisoners in Oklahoma Can Now Buy Vapes, Pouches from Commissary by Since early March 2026, Oklahoma has begun to allow prisoners to buy vapes and pouches from prison commissaries. While some jails have okayed these nicotine products, Oklahoma is only the second state prison system to do so after the …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Wisconsin’s Incarcerated Population Has More Access to Opioid Treatment, But Still Missing in Eight County Jails by A report recently published by the Wisconsin Policy Forum found that most of the state’s county jails, as well as all of its state prisons, provided medication used to treat opioid use disorder. …
Private Company Investigating Rapes at California ICE Detention Center Instead of Sheriff by In 2025, officials with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office failed to investigate at least seven reported cases of sexual assault that occured at Otay Mesa immigration detention center, a facility run by private prison profiteer CoreCivic …
Article • March 9, 2026 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Suicides, Prison Conditions
Washington Prisoners Gain Access to Crisis Hotline by As of late October 2025, prisoners incarcerated in Washington state’s prison system now have the ability to call a crisis hotline if they are experiencing suicidal thoughts. The hotline was created based on recommendations from a report after three prisoners—Mitch Hemphill, Everette …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Incarcerated Women Featured in True Crime Media Face Flood of Sexual Harassment by Kwaneta Harris, Leigh Goodmark by Kwaneta Harris and Leigh Goodmark This article was originally published by Truthout.   Most true crime media is consumed by women, some of whom may be watching because they relate to the …
Sixth Circuit Revives Michigan Prisoner’s Challenge to Guard Tackle That Broke His Foot by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a ruling on September 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found not one but two errors in a lower court’s dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Washington Appellate Court Uses Personal Restraint Petitions Mooted by Prisoners’ Transfers to Order Remedial Measures at Troubled Juvenile Lockup by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 1, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals found that conditions at the state’s toughest juvenile prison violated state law. The case was remarkable …
South Dakota Sobriety Program Participants Will No Longer Be Jailed for Non-Payment of Fees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota granted preliminary approval on December 3, 2025, to a settlement resolving a putative class-action challenge to Pennington County’s policy of …
One in 10 Prison Admissions Is Now for Technical Parole Violation by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The death of a pair of parole reform bills in the New Jersey legislature highlights a persistent problem plaguing prisons across the country: 10% of new prison admissions are not for new crimes …
Eleventh Circuit: District Court Erred in Dismissing BOP Prisoner’s Medical Claim, Finds Prison Officials Made Administrative Remedies Unavailable by David Reutter by David Reutter On August 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s medical Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and …
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