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$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. …
$42,000 Paid to Wisconsin Prisoner Allowed to Harm Himself While Under Observation by Anthony Accurso On November 19, 2024, the State of Wisconsin paid $42,000 to settle a trio of lawsuits filed by a state prisoner making claims of excessive force and deliberate indifference to his medical needs. Waupun Correctional …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Judgment for HRDC in Arkansas Jail Censorship Suit by David Reutter On February 24, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed judgment that the “postcard-only” policy for periodicals and books at Arkansas’ Baxter County Jail and Detention Center constituted a de facto blanket …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Nearly $60,000 Awarded to Mother Of Dead Missouri Prisoner In Suit For His DOC Records by Anthony Accurso On April 23, 2024, the mother of a deceased Missouri prisoner prevailed on appeal against the state Department of Corrections (DOC), which a lower court had found knowingly violated the Missouri Sunshine …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Free Calls in Massachusetts Lead to Defunded Prison Programs by In December 2023, Massachusetts became the fifth state to provide free phone calls in its prisons and the first in all local jails. Video calling and e-messaging were also made available at no cost [See: PLN, Mar. 2024, p. 15]. …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$12 Million for Former California Prisoner Exonerated After 17 Years by On June 18, 2024, City Commissioners in San Jose, California, voted to approve a settlement paying $12 million to Lionel Rubalcalva, 45, who spent 17 years wrongfully incarcerated for a 2002 gang shooting that he didn’t commit.  Rubalcalva was …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Colorado Passes New Law to Expand Prisoner Visitation Rights by In early May 2025, the Colorado Legislature approved a bill that would increase visitation rights for incarcerated people. Signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the bill, HB25-1013, ends a policy in the state in which “inmate social visiting” …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
First Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Maine Guards who Ogled Prisoner During Childbirth by David Reutter On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) for a pair of Maine jailers whom a prisoner accused of violating her …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$250,000 Verdict for South Carolina Prisoner Pepper-Sprayed in Face Without Cause by Guard by David Reutter On January 30, 2025, a jury in South Carolina’s Richland County Court of Common Pleas, Fifth Judicial Circuit, awarded $250,000 to a state prisoner who accused the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of gross …
Wiccan Nevada Prisoner Wins 18-Year Fight for Religious Items by Clark Nelly On November 13, 2024, Nevada prisoner Anthony Thomas Chernetsky finally secured what he had fought over 18 years to get from the state Department of Corrections (DOC): Permission to use natural anointing oils and build a sweatlodge to …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
14th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death by Freezing by A guard pleaded guilty in June 4, 2025, in connection with the death of a man held at an Alabama jail who died in freezing conditions in January 2023. The guard, Braxton Kee, 23, pleaded guilty to …
Tennessee Board of Parole Spanked for Failing to Make Recommendation to Governor on Prisoner’s Clemency Application by In Tennessee, a state law—T.C.A. § 40-27-101—allows prisoners to apply for clemency in the form of commutation of their sentence or a pardon. When the Board of Parole receives an application, it is supposed …
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