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Brooklyn Jail Guard Convicted for Shooting and Car Chase by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The New York Times reported that Leon Wilson, 51, a veteran guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, was convicted on October 28, 2025, in the borough’s Federal District Court for …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Guards at an Infamous Mississippi Jail Mocked a Disabled Detainee by In late November 2025, reporters at Mississippi Today uncovered two videos taken inside the Rankin County jail that showed guards mocking a disabled detainee; just days earlier, the guards had filmed the same detainee being shocked in an electrical …
Suit by Mentally Disabled Detainees at South Carolina Jail Secures Class Certification; No Action on Damning DOJ Report by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In January 2025, at the conclusion of a year-­long investigation into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (ASGDC) in South Carolina’s Richland County, the federal Department …
SCOTUS Stops Fourth Circuit from Tossing Federal Prisoner’s Appeal on Technicality by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A federal prisoner filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) complaint against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which the district court dismissed. Before he got notice of the dismissal, the prisoner was transferred. …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
$6.49 Million Settlement for 600,000 Prisoners in Massive CorrectCare Data Breach Class Action by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted final approval on September 17, 2024, to a $6.49 million settlement of a class-­action complaint filed on behalf of almost …
Arkansas Prison Reaches ADA Settlement by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with the Arkansas Division of Correction (DOC) on September 5, 2025, resolving violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131–12134, at the prison system’s Ouichita River …
Louisiana Prisoner Granted Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to Jail Book Ban by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Finding that the “library” at Tensas Parish Detention Center (TPDC) “is nothing more than a nominal designation,” the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a prisoner’s request for a …
New Jersey Breaks Ground on New $330 Million Women’s Prison After Raid at Old Facility by In October 2025, New Jersey broke ground on the construction of a new 420-­bed, $330 million prison for women that will replace a crumbling 112-­year-­old facility that shuttered in 2021. The Edna Mahan Correctional …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
The BOP Is Closing a Los Angeles Prison Due to Falling Concrete by On November 25, 2025, federal Bureau of Prisons director William K. Marshall III told staff that the agency will shutter the Federal Correctional Institute, Terminal Island due to structural failures, including falling concrete that could disable the …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Repairs at Arkansas Prison Wastewater Plant Keep Getting Delayed by An aging wastewater plant that serves two of Arkansas’s largest prisons regularly runs afoul of its federal water permit, having exceeded the amount of discharge that it’s allowed to release for over a decade.  In 2022, the state Department of …
Hyundai and Kia Sued in California for Use of Prison Labor in Southern States by Progressive non-­profit Jobs to Move America (JMA) is suing carmakers Hyundai and Kia over unethical labor practices, including the use of prison labor and child labor.  On November 13, 2025, JMA announced its lawsuit, filed …
Fourth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Claims Against North Carolina Prison Doctor by Prisoner Nearly Killed by Avian Flu by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a ruling on August 15, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit offered important guidance for prisoners relying on expert medical testimony, …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
CDCR May No Longer Use Sentence Credits to Advance Parole Eligibility of Some California Prisoners Serving Indeterminate Sentences by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a tough ruling for some California prisoners, the state Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, said on July 28, 2025, that a 2016 voter initiative …
Ninth Circuit Remands California Prisoner’s Case in which No Contest Plea Was Admitted as Evidence of Guilt by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In August of 2016, Jerry Lee King was involved in an altercation with guards at the Kern Valley State Prison in California. According to King, he was …
New York State Closes Yet Another Prison by In November 2025, the state of New York announced that it will close the Bare Hill Correctional Facility (BHCF), a prison near the Canadian border, by March of next year. The closure of the facility, which has a staff of 293 and …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Blount County Jail guard received a decade behind bars on October 21, 2025, for a brutal assault that was captured on security video, according to WVTM in Birmingham. Joseph Ray Snow, 45, was sentenced for assaulting detainee Jonathan Calloway in 2022. Calloway, who …
$95,000 Settlement for Trans BOP Prisoner Assaulted by Cellmate in Arizona Lockup by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona granted dismissal to a group of cases filed by federal prisoner Jeremy “Grace” Pinson, 39, after she agreed to …
Huge $27.75 Million Verdict for Montana Prisoner Nearly “Beaten to Death” at CoreCivic Lockup by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana returned a verdict on April 2, 2025, awarding $27.75 million in damages to former state prisoner Nathaniel Lake, after …
$1.9 Million Settlement in Washington Jail Death Includes Policy Changes by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under terms of a settlement reached on October 15, 2025, Washington’s Pend Orielle County agreed to pay $1.9 million to the Estate of Jacob Mitchell, a detainee who died at the County jail in …
Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Jail Nurses in Suit Arising from Prisoner’s Death by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to two registered nurses, Diana Snow and …
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