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$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 …
$8.5 Million for Family of Murdered Elderly Californian Detained for Cold Case Killings Based on “Genetic Genealogy” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under an agreement signed on September 17, 2025, California’s Ventura County agreed to pay $8.5 million to Patricia and Anthony Garcia, the wife and son of Tony …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Broken Water Pipe Leads to Unsanitary Conditions at Montana State Prison by When a water pipe broke at the Montana State Prison (MSP) in the city of Deer Lodge, prisoners were unable to shower or even wash their hands for at least a week.  The break was first discovered at …
Louisiana Detainee Captured After Two Previous Escapes by Cecil Michael Stratton, 46, a detainee held at the Berwick Police Department Jail, was apprehended on November 15, 2025, after escaping from the facility earlier that week.  Around the time he was initially booked, Stratton fought with guards as the jailers were …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Releases 1,700 Private Health Records by Mistake by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on November 7, 2025 that the private health records of more than 1,700 prisoners and former prisoners had been mistakenly shared. The data breach, which the DOC claimed was done “in error,” was …
Eighth Circuit: Former Prisoner’s Amended Complaint Filed After Release Not Subject to PLRA Exhaustion Requirement by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused a request by officials with the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) for a rehearing before …
Suicidal West Virginia Prisoner Granted Transfer From 13-Year Solitary Confinement by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In an ruling on August 25, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia found officials with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) in contempt of an injunction …
Record $42.75 Million Verdict in Louisiana Detainee’s Death in LaSalle Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In one of the largest verdicts ever returned in a suit over an American jail death, a federal jury in Louisiana awarded $42.75 million on October 20, 2025, to the Estate of Erie …
DOJ Leaves Louisiana Over-Detention Suit on Life Support, Two Others Granted Class-Action Status by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A prison case filed in Louisiana by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has languished since new leadership was appointed in January 2025 by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R). Filed by the …
Prisoner Assaulted by BOP Guard and Left With Bleeding Rectum—Then the Cover-Up Began by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A 50-­page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on October 30, 2025, seeks “some measure of justice” for the prisoner who filed it, identified in …
$7 Million Paid by Ohio County for Jail Detainee’s Death in Restraint Chair by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The Board of County Commissioners of Ohio’s Montgomery voted on September 30, 2025, to pay $7 million to the Estate of Christian Black, who died at the county jail the previous …
DOJ Settles With Orange County Over Use of “Jailhouse Snitches” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In an agreement finalized with the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) on January 14, 2025, District Attorney Todd Spitzer (R) of California’s Orange County committed to a series of reforms in the use of …
One Guard Pleads Guilty, Another Receives Light Sentence in New York Prisoner’s Killing by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott As part of the ongoing legal proceedings in the death of 22-­year-­old New York state prisoner Messiah Nantwi, Mid-­State Correctional Facility guard Francis Chandler pled guilty in Oneida County …
Oklahoma Prisoner Found Unconscious in Cell Hours After Avoiding Execution by On November 13, 2025, just moments before Tremane Wood, 46, was scheduled to be killed via lethal injection, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican and staunch supporter of the death penalty, spared the prisoner’s life by reducing his sentence …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
The Succession Battle for a Prison Empire by Katya Schwenk by Katya Schwenk The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-­rises. It is of Italian design: sleek, imposing, with a flybridge and sundeck and five cabins, …
Second Circuit Vacates Finding that Prisoner Failed to Exhaust Administrative Remedies; Remands Conditions of Confinement and Due Process Claims by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 30, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a district court’s judgment that had held that prisoner plaintiff Clint …
First Circuit Greenlights Rhode Island Prisoner’s Damages Suit for Disastrous 450-Day Solitary Confinement by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On August 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed that damages claims may proceed to trial against Rhode Island Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who kept …
Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Michigan Warden Whose Guards Gave Prisoner Plastic Bag Used in Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman People not intimately familiar with prison life struggle to comprehend the level of casual cruelty that must be endured. Yet even the most hardened prisoner …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
$4 Million Settlement Reached in Class Action Challenge to Conditions at Shuttered St. Louis “Workhouse” Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman It sounded like a jail from a 19th century novel: “infestations of insects, spiders and rodents”; “extreme and dangerous heat and humidity” in warm weather; exposure to “extreme …
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