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Sixth Guard Sentenced in West Virginia Killing of Pretrial Detainee by A former West Virginia guard who failed to intervene while fellow guards beat to death pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, 37, was sentenced on June 9, 2025, for her role in the 2022 assault.  Ashley Toney, 25, got six and …
$22.5 Million Verdict Arrives Too Late for Wrongfully Convicted Illinois Prisoner by David Reutter On August 8, 2024, the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois entered judgment for the estate of a former state prisoner after a jury awarded $22.5 million in damages for 22 years he spent …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Arkansas Ex-Police Chief Known as “Devil in the Ozarks” Re-Captured After Prison Escape by A former Arkansas police chief who was convicted of rape and murder was recaptured on June 6, 2025, two weeks after escaping prison. The state Department of Corrections said Grant Hardin escaped dressed as a prison …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$95,000 in Settlements for Illinois Prisoners Retaliated Against for Class Participation in Prison Education Programs by David Reutter On October 4, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) settled the second of two lawsuits brought by prisoners involved in educational programs who claimed that they were subjected to retaliation after …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Wisconsin Robbery Suspect Frames Immigrant Detainee with Forged Letters Threatening to Kill Trump by Demetric D. Scott, 52, is facing criminal charges in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after forging letters threatening Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) under the name of an undocumented immigrant. Scott, in sending a letter to the Department of …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
South Carolina Prisoners Granted Class-Action Status in Suit Over Low Wages in Prison Industries Jobs by Douglas Ankney On September 18, 2024, four men, all current or former prisoners incarcerated within the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC), sued the agency and Director Bryan P. Stirling in …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
A Colorado Jail Has Banned In-Person Visits Since the Pandemic by For more than four years, beginning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boulder County Jail in Boulder, Colorado has remained closed to in-person visitations. Although prisons have returned to allowing visitors, many jails have yet to re-instate in-person access. At …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Nearly $70,000 Awarded for Illinois Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim by David Reutter On October 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois entered judgment awarding $69,384.73 to a state prisoner in his civil rights action alleging a Department of Corrections (DOC) food service director subjected him …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Latest Jail Booking Info Is Based on New Data Source by The U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long collected and published statistics on local jails nationwide, including the number of such facilities and how many people are booked into them each year. Who are these people and why …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$1.6 Million Class-Action Settlement for Virginia Prisoners Subjected to Delayed Release by In an amended agreement filed in the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia on January 28, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Chadwick Dotson and his predecessor, Harold Clarke, promised to pay a total of …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Massachusetts High Schooler Detained by ICE Caught in “Collateral Arrest” by A Massachusetts high school student, Marcelo Gomes da Silva, was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while driving to volleyball practice in June 2025. The teenager, who was released on bond after six days amid community …
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Milwaukee Jail’s Mail Policy in HRDC Suit by Like many local lockups, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) imposes restrictions on the number and types of books and periodicals that prisoners and detainees can receive. As of July 2024, MCJ’s mail policy required periodicals to be “mailed …
Seventh Circuit Revives Former Illinois Prisoner’s Claim for Delayed Hepatitis-C Treatment by David Reutter On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a former Illinois prisoner’s deliberate indifference claim against a healthcare provider contracted by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) could proceed …
Brief • June 20, 2025
Mork v. Russel, NV,Spoliation Instruction, Medical Neglect, 2025 Case 3:21-cv-00077-MMD-CSD Filed 06/20/25 Page 14 of 18 The Court instructs the jury that Dr. Naughton took photograp hs of Mr. Mark's rash 1 2 Document 128 while he was incarcerated but destroyed them after this lawsuit was initiated. The Court 3 …
Brief • June 20, 2025
Mork v. Russel, NV,Verdict, Medical Neglect, 2025 Case 3:21-cv-00077-MMD-CSD Document 131 Filed 06/20/25 Page 1 of 2 / 1 I . 2 3 UNITED STATES DI 4 DISTRICT OF 5 *** - r Rl ~,T COURT - 6 ' Case No. 3:21-cv-00077-MMD-CS D NICOLAI MORK, 7 Plaintiff, VERDICT FORM V. …
Albert v. Global Tellink Corp, MD, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Telephone Rates, 2025 Case 8:20-cv-01936-LKG Document 439 Filed 06/13/25 Page 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND (SOUTHERN DIVISION) Ashley Albert, et al., * Plaintiffs * v. * Global Tel*Link Corp., et al., …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Rash of 5,000 False-Positive Prisoner Drug Tests Going to California Parole Board Anyway by For most of 2024, drug tests performed on California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoners returned a positive rate for opioids in a narrow range between 6.6% and 6.8%. But in May 2024, the rate …
New York Guards Plead Guilty to Fatally Beating Prisoner, Mopping Up His Blood by New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guard Christopher Walrath, 36, pleaded guilty on May 5, 2025, to taking part in the fatal beating of prisoner Robert Brooks. On May 14, 2025, fellow guard …
Washington’s Continuing Competency Crisis Strains Jails by The State of Washington has consistently failed to provide timely competency evaluations and restoration services to defendants facing criminal charges. Despite years of litigation, injunctions, consent decrees, and contempt fines ranging into the hundreds of millions, problems persist unabated. With mentally ill detainees …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
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Auburn University’s Prison Education Program ‘Indefinitely Suspended’ by Charlotte West Longstanding prison education programs at two major public research universities in the South face an uncertain future by Charlotte West Just a few months after Georgia State University announced last spring that it would end its college program for incarcerated …
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