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Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter David M. Reutter One alternative to incarceration that criminal justice reformers clamor for is probation or parole. A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counted nearly 3.7 million people in the U.S. under some form of community …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
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Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
One Detainee Dying Every Week in L.A. County Jails by As of December 31, 2023, Los Angeles County jails had recorded 34 detainee deaths in seven months—over one every week, far more than New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, which recorded seven deaths during the same period. Overcrowding is …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
HRDC Awarded Over $130,000 in Legal Costs and Fees for Defendant’s “Bad Faith” in Maine Records Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 16, 2024, Maine’s Superior Court for Kennebec County ordered state officials to pay $130,600.02 in attorney fees and legal costs to PLN’s publisher, the …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Alabama Denies Parole to Former Sheriff Convicted of Corruption by Once Alabama’s longest-­serving sheriff, Mike Blakely, 72, will continue serving a three-­year sentence for corruption handed down in August 2021, after the state Board of Pardons and Paroles (BOPP) deadlocked over his parole application on March 7, 2024. The 1-­to-­1 …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Massachusetts Prisoners Again Stage Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement by At Massachusetts’ maximum-­security Souza-­Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC), 19 prisoners held in the Secure Adjustment Unit (SAU) began a hunger strike in October 2023, alleging conditions like solitary confinement despite state law reforms limiting its use. The protest began with a …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Woman Denied Cardiac Care in Federal Prison in Texas—Despite Personal Assurance of BOP Medical Director by In September 2023, an elderly prisoner went into cardiac arrest at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Carswell, Texas, after the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Medical Director had assured her sentencing judge that he …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Qualified Immunity for Missouri Prison Chief in Sexual Abuse Claims Against Former Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 23, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Anne Precythe, Director of the Missouri Department …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Fifth Circuit Finds Louisiana Prisoner’s Solitary Confinement Not Sufficiently “Atypical” to Violate the Constitution by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 25, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of Louisiana prisoner Brandon LaVergne’s Eighth Amendment claim, finding the alleged restrictions on his …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Georgia Sheriff Resigns After Groping TV Judge’s Breast by Nearly two years after Sheriff Kris Coody of Georgia’s Bleckley County publicly groped television Judge Glenda Hatchett’s chest, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery in state court on August 21, 2023. Coody, 59, was then sentenced to 12 months of …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help by On October 17, 2023, a month after a Topeka Correctional Facility prisoner fell and had to crawl back to her cell because guards refused to help her, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) fired …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Adds Statewide Detention Monitors Overseeing Local Jails by Quietly, on October 4, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law a measure to boost transparency in the state’s local jails, also adding a layer of oversight vested in a new statewide “detention monitor”—who will act much like an …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$1.75 Million Settlement Reached in Washington Jail Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Washington city of Lynnwood agreed on September 20, 2023, to pay $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit alleging guards at the Lynnwood Municipal Jail were negligent in the suicide death of Tirhas Tesfatsion two …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Oregon Prisoner’s Parole Deferral Based on “Dangerous Offender” Statute Reversed by On August 9, 2023, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a decision by the state Board of Parole and Post-­Prison Supervision (BPPS) deferring parole consideration for Gerald O. Person. Sentenced as a “dangerous offender” for crimes committed in the …
Louisiana Supreme Court Springs Prisoner From Death Row by Condemned Louisiana prisoner Darrell Robinson got off death row on January 26, 2024, when the state supreme court found his 2001 trial was tainted and granted a new one. Robinson, 55, was the only one of 57 state prisoners awaiting execution …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
California Prisons Locked Down After Massive Riot Hospitalizes Prisoner, Eight Guards by A riot broke out at Ironwood State Prison on January 31, 2024, triggering a “threat assessment” that locked down every facility run by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Eight staffers and one prisoner were hospitalized …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
From Prison Cook to Praised Pizza Chef by A former Pennsylvania prisoner is now a chef at a Philadelphia pizzeria, which was named one of the 50 best in the U.S. by the Washington Post on August 31, 2023. Those held in the same cell block with Mike Carter may …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Alaska Prisons Report Three Deaths in Three Days by
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