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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” by An obscure consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $78 million contract in early July 2025 to provide a range of critical services at a hastily built immigrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed by state …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Double Counting
Life-Sentenced California Prisoner Cannot be Convicted Under Both §§ 4500 and 4501 by While serving a life sentence, Richard Manuel Nava stabbed a fellow California state prisoner multiple times with a sharpened piece of metal. He was charged under Pen. Code § 4502(a) for possessing a weapon in a penal facility; …
Third Circuit Upholds Award of $265,000 to Prisoner Who Was Sexually Assaulted Twice by the Same Guard by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a jury’s award of $265,000 to Pennsylvania prisoner Henry Unseld Washington who was sexually assaulted twice by guard T.S. Oswald. …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption
Missouri Prison Nurse Sentenced to 12 Years for Poisoning Husband by On June 25, Amy Murray, a 46-year-old former prison nurse in Miller County, received a 12-year sentence after she entered an Alford plea—a guilty plea in which the defendant maintains innocence—around charges related to poisoning her husband, Joshua, and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Prison Gerrymandering Alive and Well in Oklahoma by Chuck Sharman As states across the country push to end “prison gerrymandering”—the U.S. Census practice of counting prisoners in the typically rural and white areas where they are held, thereby diluting the voting power of the urban and non-white areas that they …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
DOJ Tables Controversial Kentucky Prison to Claw Back $500 Million Budget by Since 2006, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers has worked to bring a new prison to a former strip-mining site in Eastern Kentucky. Although previous budget proposals turned down the project, Rogers was able to secure $500 million in federal …
Delaware’s ACLU Files Action on Behalf Of Six Prisoners Assaulted During Midnight Raid by Anthony Accurso On behalf of six prisoners in Delaware, the ACLU filed a civil rights complaint against a Warden and his Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) for assaults and abuse that occurred during a midnight raid. …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Former California Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Planting Contraband He Pretended to Discover by Avelino Ramirez, 52, worked at the San Quentin State Prison from 2013 to 2022, according to his plea agreement. In 2022, he was promoted to K-9 sergeant and transferred to the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. …
California Attorney Disbarred for Deceiving Prisoners Seeking Resentencing by Chuck Sharman Los Angeles attorney Aaron Spolin pleaded no contest to misconduct on June 17, 2025, agreeing to be stripped of his law license because he “promoted false hopes in his clients and their families that the clients’ sentences would be …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Qualified Immunity Denied for Iowa Prison Doctor’s MRI Delay for Non-Medical Reasons by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a prison doctor who delayed the scheduling of a prisoner’s MRI due to the prisoner’s upcoming parole hearing and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
HRDC Wins Consent Decree, $350,000 in Jail Censorship Suit against California’s Sonoma County by Chuck Sharman On June 2, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a consent decree settling demands for injunctive relief filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) against California’s Sonoma County …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Public Records Act
$3,800 Paid to Ohio Prisoner for Denied Records Request by Chuck Sharman In a letter dated July 8, 2024, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) confirmed a $2,800 settlement with state prisoner Trevor J. Teagarden, resolving claims for denied public records requests made to the state Department of Rehabilitation and …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Guaranteed Basic Income Programs for Prisoners Reduce Food Insecurity and Homelessness by Anthony Accurso The cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Durham, North Carolina, experimented with providing guaranteed basic income (GBI) to prisoners who were reentering the community, and have released information about the outcomes created by the program. Both programs …
Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
Filing • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Settlement, Censorship, 2025 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER § § vs. § § GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS; TOM WATT § in his individual capacity; and WILLIAM A § BENNIE, in his official capacity …
Brief • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Unlawful Detention
Tucker v. King County, WA, Settlement, Unlawful Detention, 2025 Case 2:24-cv-00002-RAJ Document 39-1 Filed 07/31/25 Ex. 1 Page 1 of 14 II Case 2:24-cv-00002-RAJ Document 39-1 Filed 07/31/25 Page 2 of 14 ,96 @?@C23=6*:492C5 "@?6D -?:E65+E2E6D:DEC:4E@FCE -&!,+,,+!+,*!,'-*, /+,*&!+,*!,'/+ !&,'& ,+,,$ &@ 4G *" %$!#,-#*2?5 *!&$/!$$!%+ (=2:?E:77D GD #!&'-&,0 /+ !&,'& …
Brief • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Unlawful Detention
Tucker v. King County, WA, Notice of Motion and Motion for Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlement, Unlawful Detention, 2025 Case 2:24-cv-00002-RAJ Document 39 1 Filed 07/31/25 Page 1 of 25 The Honorable Richard A. Jones United States District Court 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN …
Brief • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Settlement, Censorship, 2025 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER § § vs. § § GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS; TOM WATT § in his individual capacity; and WILLIAM A § BENNIE, in his official capacity …
Brief • July 25, 2025
Estate of Jace Coons v. Cogburn, TX, Opinion-5th Circuit of Appeals, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2025 Case: 24-10777 Document: 92-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 07/25/2025 Wniteb ~tate~ <!Court of ~ppeal~ for tbe jfiftb <!Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED July 25, 2025 No. 24-10777 CYNTHIA COONES, Individually, andasSurvivingParentand …
Filing • July 24, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Johnson, HI, Complaint, Censorship, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-00311 Document 1 Filed 07/24/25 Page 1 of 16 PageID.1 1 Ernest Galvan – Cal. Bar No. 196065* 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Benjamin Bien-Kahn – Cal. Bar No. 267933* Brenda Muñoz – Cal. Bar No. 328813* …
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