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No Charges in Alabama Prisoner’s Torture, Rape and Murder by Terry Williams, the father of a murdered Alabama prisoner, was reportedly left “speechless” in late October 2024 after an Elmore County grand jury refused to indict his son’s alleged attacker, another prisoner identified as “X.” Just a year earlier, Daniel …
$400,000 Jury Verdict for Medical Neglect Resulting in Amputation of Alabama Prisoner’s Toes by On May 20, 2024, a federal jury in Alabama returned a verdict against a doctor employed by Wexford Health Sources, Inc., the private medical provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC). It was part …
Four-Month Wait for 40 Percent of South Carolina Jail Detainees Needing Psychiatric Evaluation by A backlog in court-ordered psychological evaluations had stranded 136 South Carolina detainees in jail by the end of September 2024, nearly 40% of them held over 120 days. Waiting on admission to the state’s forensic psychiatric …
Second Rapper Stabbed in Atlanta Jail During Record-Long Trial by Rapper Yak Gotti, whose real name is Deamonte Kendrick, 32, was stabbed in the south annex of Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on December 1, 2024, during a racketeering trial involving fellow rapper Young Thug—real name Jeffrey Lamar Williams, 33—and four …
Muslim New York Prisoner’s Free Exercise of Religion Claim Reinstated by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed summary judgment on a New York prisoner’s First Amendment free exercise claim while also affirming a jury’s verdict …
Tenth Circuit Affirms PTS Driver’s Conviction for Torturous Detainee Transport by On June 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the conviction of a private prison transport driver for violating the civil rights of detainees. Anthony Buntyn, 56, a former driver for private prison …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
$1.5 Million Settlement Reached for Oregon Prisoner’s Untreated Traumatic Brain Injury by A report published by Oregon Capital Chronicle on November 11, 2024, noted that former state prisoner Jacqueline Orr, 57, still suffers the effects of a brain injury incurred during her incarceration—walking “gingerly” while “clutching a cane” through a …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Trump Outpolled Harris in Pre-Election Survey Behind Bars by A July 2024 survey of 11,500 people held in 542 prisons and jails found that 44% supported the candidacy of former Pres. Donald J. Trump (R), who then went on to win a second nonconsecutive term in the White House. His …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Minnesota Judge Spanked For Ignoring Law Restoring Felon Voting Rights by Just over a year after Minnesota restored voting rights to former felons, the state Board on Judicial Standards (BJS) reprimanded Mille Lacs County District Judge Matthew Quinn on June 27, 2024, for attempting to disenfranchise formerly incarcerated people. Minnesota’s …
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO Group, Inc., is the sole detention facility in the state of Washington for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2023, state …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Appeals Court Tosses Former Prisoner’s Illegal Voting Conviction by On March 28, 2024, Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals (COA2D) overturned Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction, ruling that the state failed to present any evidence of criminal intent by the Black grandmother from Fort Worth to vote illegally in …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional by Quietly, the Second Senate of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court made history on June 20, 2023, in a ruling that found laws capping compensation that prisoners receive for work in two German states violate the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Remedying Wrongs by Kenneth Alyass The administrative remedy process is a roadblock to challenging inhumane prison conditions. With the help of advocates, people in prison are fighting back. As a way to challenge the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment, people behind bars have made remarkable use of the very legal …
Mom of Murdered California Prisoner Defeats Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit by Guard Who Posted Pics of Corpse Online by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California largely denied a motion to dismiss a civil rights action filed …
Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Claim for 11-Month Solitary Confinement That DOC Admitted Was Improper by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of Alaska reversed dismissal of a state prisoner’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) against officials with the state Department …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Fourth Circuit Revives Claim Over North Carolina Jail Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on December 8, 2023, that pretrial detainees no longer need show that a detention official “knew of and disregarded a substantial …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Michigan Makes Voting Rights Restoration Automatic for Prisoner’s at Release by On November 30, 2023, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmir (D) signed HB 4983, a measure that makes voter registration automatic for state prisoners upon release. With that, the state became the first in the nation to make voter registration the …
Fourth Circuit Moves North Carolina Prisons Closer to Recognizing Nation of Gods and Earths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On December 13, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a group of North Carolina prisoners can be treated like adherents of a religion even …
BOP Rolls Out Veterans-Only Housing at Federal Prison in Texas by In an article published by the Vanguard at Berkeley on October 15, 2023, a new program was reported at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas: A dorm exclusively for prisoners who are veterans of the U.S. military. Federal …
Article • April 26, 2024
Eleventh Circuit: “More than Gross Negligence” Required to Prove Deliberate Indifference by David Reutter [See update at end of article]  by David M. Reutter On May 22, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials at Georgia’s Walker State …
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