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After Judge’s Letter, at Least 22 Former FCI Dublin Prisoners Granted Compassionate Release
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Release and Reentry, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Compassionate Release
After Judge’s Letter, at Least 22 Former FCI Dublin Prisoners Granted Compassionate Release by Matthew Clarke In May 2024, California federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers took the unusual step of writing a letter to numerous other judges who had sentenced women formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin and …
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 …
Ninth Circuit: Continuing-Violations Doctrine Applies 
for PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Purposes
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Grievances, Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA)
Ninth Circuit: Continuing-Violations Doctrine Applies for PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Purposes by David Reutter On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a prisoner “need not file repeated grievances if the (prisoner) has identified one continuing harm or a single course of conduct [of] …
Idaho Spent $200,000 on Execution Drugs Now Expired
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Death Row
Idaho Spent $200,000 on Execution Drugs Now Expired by Since 2023, the Idaho Department of Correction has spent $200,000 in purchasing lethal injection chemicals. Because of prisoner appeals and other delays, however, those drugs have now expired, amounting to a complete waste of taxpayer money. Although Idaho passed a bill …
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard 
Who Later Committed Suicide
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Failure to Protect (Staff)
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard Who Later Committed Suicide by Anthony Accurso An apparent error by attorneys for a former Idaho prisoner limited her recovery to just $62,500 after she was raped by a guard. In a letter to PLN on August 30, 2024, the Idaho Department of …
Federal Court Blocks Idaho Executions Until Media Access Improves
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Death Row, Access to Media, First Amendment, rights
Federal Court Blocks Idaho Executions Until Media Access Improves by On April 29, 2025, the federal court for the District of Idaho issued a preliminary injunction blocking the state Department of Corrections (DOC) from carrying out any executions until it improves access for members of the media. The ruling came …
Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: Medication, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection Method of Execution
Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside by On March 21, 2025, Idaho lost a bid to prevent disclosing its source of execution drugs to condemned prisoner Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. By then, though, a warden deposed for the case had already admitted to buying lethal drugs for the state …
No State Oversight of Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Non-Compliant Idaho Jails
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing
No State Oversight of Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Non-Compliant Idaho Jails by A news report by nonprofit media organization InvestigateWest on October 12, 2024, revealed something startling about Idaho: “Unlike most states,” the report said, there is no regulatory oversight of local jails—meaning “[s]heriffs and jail commanders set their own standards.” …
The Grift That Keeps on Giving: $33 Million for State Prisons Generated by Seized Native Land
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Native American, Abandoned Property
The Grift That Keeps on Giving: $33 Million for State Prisons Generated by Seized Native Land by In 2024, land trusts in 10 states generated an estimated $33 million in revenue for their prison systems. The figure was estimated from reports by Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, …
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Corizon, Settlements, Transgender Medical Procedures, Criminal Justice Act (CJA)
Ninth Circuit Remands Transgender Idaho Prisoner’s $2.63 Million Attorney Fee Award for Recalculation— Against Bankrupt Corizon Health Successor by Transgender Idaho state prisoner Adree Edmo filed suit in 2017 seeking gender-confirming surgery. She suffered from an extreme case of gender dysphoria—a recognized medical condition—and had repeatedly attempted self-castration. As PLN …
Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Injunctions, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, Death Row, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Punishment, Method of Execution, Lethal Injection, Lethal Injection Method of Execution
Idaho Stopped From Repeatedly Scheduling Executions That It Cannot Carry Out by Douglas Ankney
Botched Idaho Execution Halted
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Death Penalty, Lethal Injection Method of Execution
Botched Idaho Execution Halted by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On February 28, 2024, Idaho halted the execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, 73, after the all-volunteer team assigned to kill him was unable to find a suitable vein to establish the intravenous connection necessary for his lethal injection. Creech, …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Lockdowns, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Civil Commitment
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Escapes
Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged by A two-day manhunt ended on March 21, 2024, with the capture of escaped Idaho prisoner Skylar Meade, 31. Three alleged accomplices have also been arrested, including fellow Aryan Knights gang member Nicholas Umphenour, 28, who was held before his January 2024 release …
Idaho Revives Firing Squads
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Idaho Revives Firing Squads by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On March 24, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed HB 186, making his the fifth state to adopt a firing squad as a means of execution. Taking effect July 1, 2023, the law allows the state Department of …
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Who Won Gender Conforming Surgery Awarded Over $2.6 Million in Legal Fees
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Settlements, Transgender Medical Procedures
Transgender Idaho Prisoner Who Won Gender Conforming Surgery Awarded Over $2.6 Million in Legal Fees by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD On September 30, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho awarded $2,631,593 in attorneys fees and expenses to a former state prisoner, who successfully …
Edmo v. Idaho DOC, ID, Declaration of Faith Cox, Transgender, 2023
Brief • February 3, 2023
Filed under: Transgender
Edmo v. Idaho DOC, ID, Declaration of Faith Cox, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:17-cv-00151-BLW Document 353 Filed 02/03/23 Page 1 of 4 RAUL LABRADOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE OF IDAHO Steven R. Kraft (ISB No. 4753) Special Deputy Attorney General steve@melawfirm.net Peter E. Thomas (ISB No. 9756) peter@melawfirm.net Moore Elia Kraft & …
News in Brief
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: WHNT in Huntsville reported on December 16, 2022, that a Morgan County Jail detainee was charged with assaulting a guard. Ashley Nicole Taymon, 36, had gotten into an altercation at the Community Corrections Office five days earlier and was taken to a hospital. There she …
Idaho Cancels Execution Because It Cannot Obtain Lethal Injection Drugs
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty/Death Row
Idaho Cancels Execution Because It Cannot Obtain Lethal Injection Drugs by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When it issued a death warrant for convicted murderer Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. on November 16, 2022, the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) admitted it did not have the drugs needed to carry …
One Idaho Detainee Kills Another in Jail Fight Over Tablet Use
Article • December 21, 2022
Filed under: Computers, Wrongful Death
One Idaho Detainee Kills Another in Jail Fight Over Tablet Use by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 28, 2022, a man who fatally beat a fellow detainee at Idaho’s Madison County Jail was sentenced for the murder. Robert Pompa, 27, will spend at least 27 years …
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