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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Third Circuit Rejects U.S. Sentencing Commission Amended Compassionate Release Policy by Douglas Ankney In a ruling on November 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the amended compassionate release policy published by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) and declared that a Pennsylvania prisoner was not …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Percentage Of Prisoners Serving Life Without Parole Is Up Despite Overall Decrease in Prison Population by Anthony Accurso A new report by The Sentencing Project (TSP) shows that the percentage of prisoners serving terms of life without parole—or “death by incarceration”—nationwide has increased, even as overall prison populations decreased. It …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Florida Sheriff Charged in Connection with Massive $21 Million Gambling Ring by A central Florida sheriff was arrested and charged in June 2025 in connection with a money laundering and illegal gambling operation that allegedly generated more than $20 million in profits. According to the office of Florida Attorney General …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Lawsuits Filed After Fatal Assault on Elderly Prisoner at Kentucky Jail by John Daulton, 61, survived less than a day after he was booked into Kentucky’s Kenton County Detention Center on May 13, 2023. Arrested for a probation violation, he didn’t cooperate during the intake process and was placed in …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former New Jersey Jailers Plead Guilty to Beating Detainee for Tossing Urine by Three former jail guards from Passaic County, New Jersey could face years in prison after they pleaded guilty on May 21, 2025, to assaulting a detainee and lying about it. The guards, Jose Gonzalez, Donald Vinales, and Lorenzo …
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack in California Prison by On June 6, 2025, Julian Mendez, 46, a prisoner on death row at the Kern Valley State Prison in Riverside County, California, was killed by inmate Mario Renteria, 36, using a makeshift weapon, KGET in Bakersfield reported. …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
First Circuit Revives Rhode Island Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Against Guard by David Reutter On September 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to a Rhode Island Department of Corrections (DOC) guard who pepper-sprayed a restrained prisoner and then delayed …
First of 10 Guards Charged with Killing of New York Prisoner Pleads Guilty by Former New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard Joshua Bartlett pleaded guilty on May 30, 2025, to helping cover up the March 1 killing of prisoner Messiah Nantwi at Mid-State Correctional Facility by …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years Prison Legal News has reported extensively on the rape of prisoners around the country. In 35 years of publishing, about every 4- or 5-years prison systems have a major scandal at their local women’s prison where it comes to light that …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Trump Pardons Virginia Sheriff Convicted of a Bribes-for-Badges Scheme by On May 27, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) issued an unconditional pardon for Scott Jenkins, 53, a former Northern Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for 12 counts of conspiracy, fraud, and bribery. The pardon …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
D.C. District Court Dismisses Class Action Against BOP Over Earned Sentence Credits by On June 9, 2025, the federal court for the District of Columbia dismissed a class action lawsuit that challenged the way the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) treated sentence credits earned by prisoners toward early release under …
$340,000 for Former Massachusetts Prisoner Whose Baby Was Stillborn by Douglas Ankney On February 3, 2025, a former Massachusetts prisoner dismissed claims arising from a stillbirth she suffered while incarcerated at Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center (MRWCC). In return, Lidia Lech agreed to dismiss all claims over the tragedy that …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Oregon Prisoners Can Now Seek Economic Damages for Future Lost Income More Easily by David Reutter On January 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of Oregon held that prisoners seeking to state a claim for economic damages in the form of future lost income need not plead an “enforceable right” to …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Bold New Orleans Escape Calls Attention to Poor Jail Conditions by At around 12:30 a.m. on May 16, 2025, 10 detainees escaped from a New Orleans, Louisiana jail through a small rectangular hole in a cell wall. Images showed a metal toilet and sink torn from the wall; etched above …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Gag Order on Tennessee Attorney for Criticizing CoreCivic Lifted by Judge by Nashville-area attorney Daniel Horwitz will no longer be barred from publicly criticizing a private prison after the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee amended its rules in May 2025.  The development comes three years after …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Eleventh Circuit Announces New Deliberate Indifference Framework in Dismissing Georgia Prisoner’s Claim for Skipped Anti-Seizure Meds by Douglas Ankney On December 23, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, affirmed the grant of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant officials with the Georgia Department of …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Trans BOP Prisoners Win Restraining Order Preventing Transfer to Men’s Prison, Discontinuation of Hormone Therapy Medication by David Reutter On February 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted three “male-to-female transgender women” imprisoned by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) a temporary restraining order (TRO). …
Sixth Circuit: Michigan Tolling Statute Applies to PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Requirement by David Reutter On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that Michigan’s “tolling provision” does not affect the administrative remedy exhaustion requirement in the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e. …
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