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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Global Tel*Link Corp
FTC Orders GTL/ViaPath to Help 650,000 Customers Whose Info Was Stolen, Posted on Dark Web by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final order requiring prison calling-service provider Global Tel*Link (GTL) “to change its security practices and offer free credit …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Ohio Supreme Court Orders Records Produced for State Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On November 7, 2023, the Supreme Court of Ohio rebuffed a request from the office of state Attorney General Dave Yost (R) to reconsider a grant of a state prisoner’s mandamus action. That left …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
BOP Guards Plead Guilty in Smuggling Ring at Closed Manhattan Lockup by On October 10, 2023, a former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard at the now-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan was sentenced for her role in a contraband-smuggling conspiracy. Prosecutors had already gotten guilty pleas from three …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
West Virginia Supreme Court Orders Prison Officials to Develop Good-Time Credit Policy by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 16, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia reversed denial of mandamus relief to a prisoner and compelled the Commissioner of the state Division of Corrections and …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower by Among the worst places to put a pregnant woman, a jail cell ranks fairly high. Yet that’s exactly where Ashley Caswell found herself—jailed in Alabama’s Etowah County for “fetal endangerment.” Ultimately …
The Graying of American Prisons by The term “geriatric” can apply to a prisoner as young as 50 in some prison systems, and it describes the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. incarcerated population. As Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) reported on August 2, 2023, the number has quintupled over the past …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
North Carolinian Left in Jail Awaiting Trial for 11 Years by On December 14, 2023, over a decade of pre-trial detention finally came to an end for a Charlotte murder suspect. Devalos Perkins, 37, pleaded guilty in Mecklenburg County District Court to voluntary manslaughter in the 2005 slaying of Justin …
$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 …
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