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Georgia Bristles at Federal Law that Prohibits Drone Interceptions by The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) prisons are buckling under a 15-­year high incarceration rate, now exceeding 50,000, and projected to climb past 55,000 by 2030 due to tougher sentencing. Simultaneously, guard staffing …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Guards in Los Angeles County Now Wearing Body Cameras by On December 3, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced that guards in all county jail facilities began wearing body-­worn cameras in October of this year. KABC reported that the move, aimed at strengthening accountability and enhancing transparency, comes …
Last of 16 Sentenced in California Prison Aryan Brotherhood Case, As Lawyer Learns He Was Targeted in Murder Plot by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A wild day unfolded in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on November 13, 2025, as the attorney for the last …
$2.75 Million Paid by Washington County and NaphCare for Death of “Floridly Psychotic” Detainee Left Untreated in Jail for Months by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A $2.75 million settlement will help the surviving children of a detainee left to decompensate from her mental illness for seven and a half …
Maryland Agrees to Pay $30,000 to Prisoner Who Was Beaten by Guards While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 22, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted dismissal to a suit filed by state prisoner Keith Darnell Kelly, after he accepted a $30,000 …
Sixth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity for Michigan Jailer Accused of Retaliatory Assault by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a decision reached on April 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit clarified the boundaries of qualified immunity (QI) for a Michigan jailer accused of …
$939,000 for Nevada Prisoner Left in Wheelchair by Delayed Back Pain Treatment by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Nevada agreed to pay state prisoner Charles Morris $939,000 on May 16, 2025, resolving his claims that state Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to provide him back timely surgery, resulting in …
Almost $28.3 Million Awarded from NaphCare for Washington Jail Detainee Who Lost Leg to Untreated Gangrene by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman For letting a detainee’s infected leg go untreated so long that it had to be amputated, a federal jury assigned liability to NaphCare, Inc., the contracted healthcare provider …
Eleventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Six Female Alabama Jail Detainees’ Sexual Assault Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district court’s summary dismissal of a federal civil rights suit brought by six women who …
HRDC Sues Washington Jail for Rejecting PLN and Other Publications by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On November 25, 2025, the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), nonprofit publisher of PLN and Criminal Legal News (CLN), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, accusing Walla …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
New Jail in Oklahoma Is Costing More than Triple the Amount Voters Approved by In 2022, voters in Oklahoma County, which contains most of Oklahoma City, approved a $260 million bond issue to construct a new jail. That price tag was expected to cover planning, land acquisition, site preparation, and …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
As California Limits Water Use, People in Prison Face Punishment for Showering by Steve Brooks, Olivia Hefferman by Steve Brooks and Olivia Hefferman, Truthout This story was originally published by Truthout.   As droughts, extreme heat, and other climate disasters increasingly plague California, people throughout the state have been subject …
Pennsylvania County and Wellpath Pay Over $1.4 Million to Settle Claims of Four Former Jail Detainees, Including Three Who Died by Suicide by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Meeting at the courthouse in Wilkes-­Barre, Pennsylvania, the Luzerne County Council approved three settlements in November 2024, totaling $645,330 in payouts on …
$600,000 Awarded So Far in Disgraced Georgia Sheriff’s Trial for Abusing Detainee in Restraint Chair by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia awarded $600,000 in compensatory damages on December 4, 2025, to a former pretrial detainee at the …
Fifth Circuit Rules Against Louisiana Prisoner Seeking to Recoup Money Made at Angola Prison Rodeo by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity (QI) to Louisiana prison officials on the ground …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Report Shows How Prison Gerrymanders Distort Democracy Across U.S. by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a report compiled on November 25, 2025, the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) broke down the impact of prison “gerrymandering” in 14 of the 33 states that have so far failed to halt the …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
HRDC Sues New Mexico County for Violating 10-­Year-­Old Settlement of Censorship Suit by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A decade after PLN secured a settlement halting censorship of soft-­cover books at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in New Mexico’s Bernalillo County, its nonprofit publisher headed back to court on December …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Labor Coalition in Minnesota Demands Disney Contractor Pay Prisoners Minimum Wage by A group of prison laborers and unions in Minnesota are demanding that Anagram International, LLC, a Minnesota-­based balloon company that subcontracts with Disney, pay incarcerated workers $11.13 an hour, which is the state’s minimum wage (The current wage …
Report Slams South Carolina Jail for Violating State Rules by State inspectors with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) told officials in July 2025 that the Beaufort County Jail, located near Hilton Head Island, had accrued multiple violations. According to a report recently obtained by The Island Packet via …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Slender Man Stabber’s Escape Prompts “Serious Questions” for Wisconsin DOC by National Public Radio reported that Morgan Geyser, 23, one of the notorious “Slender Man” stabbers, was apprehended near Chicago on November 23, 2025, after escaping her Wisconsin group home. Geyser had cut off her GPS ankle monitor and was …
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