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News in Brief
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
News in Brief by Alabama: On February 13, 2026, Jarvis Moore, a former guard at the Morgan County Jail, turned himself in to face seven counts of felony extortion lodged against him following an August 2025 investigation. According to WAFF in Huntsville, Sheriff Ron Puckett accused Moore of threatening prisoners …
Faults Found with Centurion in Kansas Four Years Ago Are Still Not Fixed
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Filed under: Centurion, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat, Deliberate Indifference
Faults Found with Centurion in Kansas Four Years Ago Are Still Not Fixed by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Kansas has a mechanism in place that allows it to fine the medical provider contracted to serve the Department of Corrections (DOC). From just January through September of 2025, Centurion, the …
$10.3 Million Paid for Teen’s Death at Kansas Juvenile Detention Facility
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Filed under: Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Wrongful Use of Force
$10.3 Million Paid for Teen’s Death at Kansas Juvenile Detention Facility by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On March 4, 2026, the Board of Commissioners of Kansas’ Sedgwick County approved a $10.3 million payout to settle claims filed by the survivors of a 17-year-old who died under a pile-on of …
Officials in Kansas Allow CoreCivic to Reopen Leavenworth Prison
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Advocacy, Injunctions, Immigration Detention, Authority and Jurisdiction
Officials in Kansas Allow CoreCivic to Reopen Leavenworth Prison by After a yearlong fight by advocates to prevent private prison profiteer CoreCivic from reopening its prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, city commissioners approved a special use permit on March 10, 2026, allowing the company to proceed. Two people were arrested and …
News in Brief
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
News in Brief by California: A suit filed in state Superior Court for San Francisco County on December 1, 2025, accuses the New York Post and Los Angeles Times of defaming Nima Momeni, 41, while he was detained in the County’s San Bruno jail before his December 2024 murder trial. …
News in Brief
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: A civil rights lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Alabama by Paulette Tennison on August 29, 2025, blamed Morgan County jailers for the death of her son, John Scott Jr., on April 22, 2025, just one week after he was arrested by Priceville Police …
Nearly $528,000 Paid by Kansas Jail to Detainees Raped by Guards
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Attorney Fee Awards, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Failure to Train/Supervise, Monell Liability
Nearly $528,000 Paid by Kansas Jail to Detainees Raped by Guards by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman   Two suits filed by victims of guard rapes at Kansas’ Sedgwick County Adult Detention Center were concluded in April 2025, with three women taking $527,979.50 from Sheriff Jeff Easter for the …
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 …
Kansas Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Challenge 
to Loss of Parental Rights
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Parental rights, Parent/Child Privilege
Kansas Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Loss of Parental Rights by Matthew Clarke On September 6, 2024, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that a prisoner’s due process rights were violated when he was able only to observe his parental rights termination hearing via videoconferencing and was unable to …
Kansas Pays $150,000 for Prisoner Killed by Cellmate, 
Centurion Settlement Confidential
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Classification, Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)
Kansas Pays $150,000 for Prisoner Killed by Cellmate, Centurion Settlement Confidential by Kansas state prisoner Gary Lee Raburn, 62, was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility on January 6, 2023, when he was fatally strangled by his cellmate, Ladarious R. Barkers, 25.  According to the complaint later filed on his …
Kansas Supreme Court Denies Compensation to Former Prisoner Whose Conviction Was Overturned
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Damages - Compensatory
Kansas Supreme Court Denies Compensation to Former Prisoner Whose Conviction Was Overturned by In a ruling on August 9, 2024, the Kansas Supreme Court held that former state prisoner Robert W. Doelz could not recover damages from the state for his wrongful conviction because he had proved only that he …
$60,000 Settlement for Kansas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, $578,000 for His Attorneys
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements
$60,000 Settlement for Kansas Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim, $578,000 for His Attorneys by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court’s award of more than $578,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs made as part of …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), State Law Claims
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Complaint, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024
Brief • May 10, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice
Estate of Lucas Bellamy v. Omweri, Complaint, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Louis Bellamy, as Trustee for the next of kin of Lucas John Bellamy, Deceased, Case No. 24-cv-00170 (DWF/TNL) Plaintiff, First Amended Complaint vs. Roselene M. Omweri in her …
BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Lockdowns, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
BOP Shrugs Off Month-Long Leavenworth Lockdown by Promising a “return to normal operations status as soon as possible” at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, the federal Bureau of Prisons insisted on March 28, 2024, that the 1,837 prisoners held there still have access to food, water and medical care …
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent”
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Religious Discrimination, Mail, Publications/Books, Banned Book Lists, Censorship, Prison Mail
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2023, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) appeared to back down from a fight over providing state prisoners materials from a Wiccan shop—though it maintained a ban on correspondence from the shop owner …
Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Corizon, Centurion, Guard Misconduct, Failure to Treat
Two Kansas Prison Guards Fired, Six Disciplined for Mocking Injured Prisoner and Refusing Her Help by On October 17, 2023, a month after a Topeka Correctional Facility prisoner fell and had to crawl back to her cell because guards refused to help her, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) fired …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Filed under: MHM Inc., Corizon, Centurion, Misconduct/Corruption, Contractor Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Retaliation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Cancer, Private Contractors, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records, Declaratory Judgment, Public Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, PLN Litigation, Censorship, Articles About PLN, Public Records Act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), HRDC Litigation
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
News in Brief
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Three jail guards in the Yellowhammer State were hit with drug smuggling charges in August 2023 and another the month after. WAFF in Huntsville reported that Morgan County Jail guard Bobby Simmons, 19, was arrested on August 3, 2023, when he was charged with promoting …
Braddy v. Sells, KS, Complaint, Assault, 2023
Brief • July 31, 2023
Filed under: False Imprisonment
Braddy v. Sells, KS, Complaint, Assault, 2023 ELECTRONICALLY FILED 2023 Jul 31 PM 1:10 CLERK OF THE WYANDOTTE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT CASE NUMBER: WY-2023-CV-000418 PII COMPLIANT IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL COURT DEPARTMENT JOSHUA BRADDY, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) …
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