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News in Brief
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Private Prisons, Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct, Systemic Medical Neglect, Male Reproductive, Malpractice, Escapes, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Juvenile Prisons, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Bribery/Extortion/Theft
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
HRDC v. Johnson, HI, Complaint, Censorship, 2025
Filing • July 24, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Johnson, HI, Complaint, Censorship, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-00311 Document 1 Filed 07/24/25 Page 1 of 16 PageID.1 1 Ernest Galvan – Cal. Bar No. 196065* 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Benjamin Bien-Kahn – Cal. Bar No. 267933* Brenda Muñoz – Cal. Bar No. 328813* …
HRDC v. Johnson, HI, Complaint, Censorship, 2025
Brief • July 24, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Johnson, HI, Complaint, Censorship, 2025 Case 1:25-cv-00311 Document 1 Filed 07/24/25 Page 1 of 16 PageID.1 1 Ernest Galvan – Cal. Bar No. 196065* 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Benjamin Bien-Kahn – Cal. Bar No. 267933* Brenda Muñoz – Cal. Bar No. 328813* …
No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Mail Regulations, Police State-Surveillance, Antipsychotic Drugs/Forced Medication, Drug Laws/Offenses
No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology by The Hawai’i Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) announced in September 2024 that it would purchase nine machines to scan inbound prisoner mail—including legal mail—for drugs. The new scanners claim to detect letters soaked with drugs without opening envelopes. …
Half of Hawai’i Prisoners Released With No ID
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Post-release, ex-offender, re-entry, Authentication/Identification
Half of Hawai’i Prisoners Released With No ID by M ore than seven years after Hawai’i lawmakers adopted a 2017 measure requiring the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to help prisoners obtain identification documents at release, over half of those released in the year ending October 2024 had …
News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of excessive force, falsifying records and witness tampering on January 28, 2025. According to the Washington Post, the charges stem from an October 2021 incident in which …
Hawaii Supreme Court Revives Exonerated Prisoner’s Quest for First Payout From Wrongful Conviction Fund
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Conviction
Hawaii Supreme Court Revives Exonerated Prisoner’s Quest for First Payout From Wrongful Conviction Fund by On September 27, 2024, the case of exonerated Hawaii prisoner Alvin Jardine drew the state Supreme Court into a battle for a payout—any payout—from the state’s wrongful conviction fund. The state has avoided liability so …
Ninth Circuit Greenlights Muslim Hawaii Prisoner’s Challenge to Early-Served Ramadan Meals
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Filed under: Religious Discrimination, Religious Diet
Ninth Circuit Greenlights Muslim Hawaii Prisoner’s Challenge to Early-Served Ramadan Meals by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) officials accused by prisoner Dewitt …
News in Brief
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Wiregrass Daily News reported that Mobile Metro Jail guard Timothy Lee Scarbrough, 39, was arrested on September 9, 2024, and charged with first-degree sodomy for the alleged sexual assaulting of a detainee who was still under the effects of anesthesia after eye surgery. Scarbrough had …
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Filed under: Restraints, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Mental Health
Watchdog Calls for Hawaii Prisons, Jails to Stop Using Restraint Chairs by On April 18, 2024, Hawaii’s Correctional System Oversight Commission (CSOC) called on lockups in the state to stop using restraint chairs over concerns they are dangerous. CSOC said it wasn’t aware that any of the devices were still …
News in Brief
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Lobbying
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic is pushing instead to build and lease it—and the firm has a high-placed ally in state Budget and Finance Director …
Misconduct Shades Sexual Assault Suit As Hawaii Settles With Prisoners for $2 Million
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, DOC/BOP misconduct, New Trial Motions, Discovery
Misconduct Shades Sexual Assault Suit As Hawaii Settles With Prisoners for $2 Million by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a surprising twist to a horrific story, the State of Hawaii agreed on July 27, 2023, to pay six state prisoners whose federal civil rights suit alleged they were sexually …
Four Hawaii Prison Guards Sentenced for Beating Prisoner – But One Wins Back-Pay
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
Four Hawaii Prison Guards Sentenced for Beating Prisoner – But One Wins Back-Pay by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 17, 2023, the last of four former Hawaii prison guards convicted of beating a state prisoner was sentenced to federal prison. The sentences ranged from one to 12 …
Reyes v. State of Hawaii, HI, Settlement, Sexual Abuse, 2023
Brief • August 10, 2023
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Staff Assault, Criminal Sexual Abuse
Reyes v. State of Hawaii, HI, Settlement, Sexual Abuse, 2023 ORIGINt\L SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, JOINT TORTFEASOR RELEASE, AND DEFENSE AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT Leinette Kainoa Reyes, Dana K.A. Baba, Artemio Panlasigui, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Dawnielle C. Panlasigui, deceased, and as Next Friend to A.P. a Minor, Tiana …
Hawaii Guard One of Four Convicted in Smuggling Scheme at Honolulu Prison
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Cell Searches, Drugs - Determination of
Hawaii Guard One of Four Convicted in Smuggling Scheme at Honolulu Prison by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A guard and a prisoner at Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu were among four people convicted on federal conspiracy charges in a drug-and-gun-smuggling scheme at the lockup. All but the guard …
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules That Time Served for Concurrent Sentences Can Be Counted Only Once for Sentence Credit
Article • April 24, 2023
Filed under: Credits, Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules That Time Served for Concurrent Sentences Can Be Counted Only Once for Sentence Credit by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On March 15, 2023, the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled that Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §706-671 (2014) does not entitle a defendant to count time earned …
News in Brief
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WBAM in Birmingham reported that a guard at the Blount County Jail was taken into custody and fired on January 31, 2023. Joseph Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for injuring a detainee during an incident captured on surveillance video. Sheriff Mike Moon called …
Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Official Report
Circuit Court Orders Hawaii to Release Names of Prisoners Who Die in State’s Jails and Prisons by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On November 14, 2022, a Hawaiian court ordered the state Department of Public Safety (DPS), the agency that runs state prisons and jails, to reveal the names of …
HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023
Publication • March 7, 2023
Filed under: COVID-19, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Showers, Prison Tourism/Consumerism
HI Correctional System Oversight Commission-OCCC Site Tour Observations-March 2023 JOSH GREEN, M.D. MARK PATTERSON GOVERNOR CHAIR CHRISTIN M. JOHNSON OVERSIGHT COORDINATOR STATE OF HAWAII HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION 235 S. Beretania Street, 16 Floor th COMMISSIONERS HON. MICHAEL A. TOWN (ret.) HON. RONALD IBARRA (ret.) TED SAKAI MARTHA TORNEY …
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