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Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
News in Brief by California: In a ruling that highlights the complexities of holding corrupt staff financially accountable, the California Court of Appeal recently restored the pension of former San Francisco jail guard April Myres, 61, on December 26, 2025. Bloomberg Law reported that federal prosecutors charged Myres in 2017 …
Fifth Circuit Remands Louisiana Detainee’s Medical Grievance Case by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2022, Stephen James was being held in the St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Jail while awaiting his trial. At his intake interview, he notified the medical staff of the prosthetic eye he had possessed for 55 …
The Last Escaped Detainee from the New Orleans Jail Was Arrested in an Atlanta Crawlspace by Derrick Groves, the last of the 10 detainees who escaped from a New Orleans, Louisiana jail in May of this year, was captured five months later, on October 15. Groves, 28, was found hiding …
Brief • October 21, 2025
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 670 36634 Filed 10/21/25 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE NO. 3:16-CV-01007 VERSUS JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY LASALLE CORRECTIONS …
Brief • October 20, 2025
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025 Case 3:16-cv-01007-TAD-KDM Document 664 36616 Filed 10/20/25 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: RECEIVED USDC, WESTERN DISTRICT OF LA DANIEL J. McCOY, CLERK UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION ERIE MOORE JR ET AL CASE …
Article • October 1, 2025 • from PLN October, 2025
Angola Prison Re-Opens Area Once Called “The Dungeon” to Hold Immigrants by The Louisiana State Penitentiary, the notorious maximum-security prison known as Angola, is now also holding immigrants who have been detained as part of Pres. Donald Trump’s crackdown. The detention center was established in a previously-closed area of the …
Florida Appeals Court Finds Rationale for “Sexual Predator” Label on Former Prisoner’s Drivers License by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Prisoners released from terms for violent sexual offenses may find that Florida is not “the free state” that it claims to be. In an en banc ruling on August 15, …
Brief • September 3, 2025
Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections, LA, Amicus Brief, Religious Practice, 2025 No. 23-1197 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ________________ DAMON LANDOR, Petitioner, v. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND PUBLIC SAFETY, ET AL., Respondents. ________________ ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR …
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 …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
DOJ Inspects BOP Food Service Operations, Finds Troubling Issues at Multiple Facilities by Anthony Accurso In the first week of June 2024, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted surprise inspection at six Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Food Service Departments, finding deficiencies at the facilities which …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Bold New Orleans Escape Calls Attention to Poor Jail Conditions by At around 12:30 a.m. on May 16, 2025, 10 detainees escaped from a New Orleans, Louisiana jail through a small rectangular hole in a cell wall. Images showed a metal toilet and sink torn from the wall; etched above …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Jail Specific
Fifth Circuit Refuses to Stop Court-Ordered Construction of Mental Health Facility at New Orleans Jail by Boris Bastidas In an opinion filed on August 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed an appeal by the Sheriff of Louisiana’s Orleans Parish, who sought to halt construction …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Trio of Guards Fired and Arrested for Smuggling at Louisiana Jails by A rash of smuggling at Louisiana jails put at least three guards in handcuffs in less than a month, beginning on April 17, 2025. That’s when 18-year-old Bossier Parish jailer Colton Davis was arrested on two counts of …
New Orleans Public Defender’s “Redeem Team” Says: “Re-entry Is Never Over” by Journalist Radley Balko published an interview on March 15, 2025, with five former state prisoners in Louisiana now employed as peer advocates with the Public Defender’s office in Orleans Parish. Known as the “redeem team,” the five men …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
Fifth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Louisiana Officials Who Forced Prisoner to Work with Broken Surgical Screws in Ankle by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso At the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on August 22, 2024, a Louisiana prisoner defeated a claim of qualified immunity …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Ohio Pauses Executions, Louisiana and Arizona Race Ahead by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) reprieved three condemned state prisoners on February 13, 2025, pushing their execution dates years down the road to give the state time to fix its broken supply chain of lethal injections drug. But Louisiana Gov. Jeff …
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 …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Louisiana Prisoner Charged With Running Sports Gambling Operation by On December 18, 2024, Louisiana State Police (LSP) arrested Elayn Hunt Correctional Center prisoner Broderick Scott, 48, on charges that he operated a large-scale sports gambling operation from his cell. LSP said that a year-long investigation had identified over 30,000 transactions …
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