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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 …
Eight Detainees Escape from Louisiana Jail, Captured in 24 Hours
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Filed under: Escapes, Jail Specific, Security Systems
Eight Detainees Escape from Louisiana Jail, Captured in 24 Hours by In yet another recent jail escape in Louisiana, eight detainees fled from the River Bend Detention Center in East Carroll Parish, a rural area that borders Arkansas and Mississippi. The detainees ranged in age from 19 to 31, and …
Louisiana Prisoner Sustains Claim Against Prison Doctor for Allowing Assignment to “Field Duty” Despite Known Ankle Injury
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Filed under: Inability to Work, Skeletal Injury, Summary Judgment, Qualified Immunity, Deliberate Indifference
Louisiana Prisoner Sustains Claim Against Prison Doctor for Allowing Assignment to “Field Duty” Despite Known Ankle Injury by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 7, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana refused to dismiss claims against a doctor with the Department of Public Safety …
News in Brief
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
News in Brief by News in Brief Alabama: The Alabama Reflector reported that state lawmakers authorized $800,000 in contracts on February 5, 2026, to defend the state Department of Corrections (DOC) against civil rights lawsuits accusing guards of brutalizing prisoners. $200,000 each will be paid to Capell & Howard in …
Constitutional Challenge to Louisiana Prison “Farm Line” Granted Class Certification
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Filed under: Prison Labor, Exposure to Heat, Injunctions (PLRA), Class Certification, Americans with Disabilities Act
Constitutional Challenge to Louisiana Prison “Farm Line” Granted Class Certification by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 23, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana granted class certification to a suit challenging the constitutionality of the “farm line” work program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary …
News in Brief
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 …
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Rastafarian Hair-­Cutting Case
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Filed under: RLUIPA, Religious Practices, Damages - Compensatory, Wrongful Use of Force, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA)
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Rastafarian Hair-­Cutting Case by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Damon Landor is a devout Rastafarian who grew his hair for decades without cutting it as part of his “Nazarite Vow.” Accordingly, his hair had grown long enough to reach nearly to his knees by the …
Fifth Circuit Rules Against Louisiana Prisoner Seeking to Recoup Money Made at Angola Prison Rodeo
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Filed under: Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Trust Accounts, Qualified Immunity, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights
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 …
Exonerated Former Prisoner Wins Election for Chief Record Keeper in New Orleans
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Filed under: Prisoner Legal Assistance, Juries, Public Records, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Exonerated Former Prisoner Wins Election for Chief Record Keeper in New Orleans by On November 15, 2025, a man who was once serving a life sentence for murder was elected as the chief record keeper for New Orlean’s criminal court. Calvin Duncan, 62, spent 28 years in prison before winning …
Louisiana Prisoner Granted Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to Jail Book Ban
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Reading Materials, Injunctions, Publications/Books, Censorship, First Amendment, rights
Louisiana Prisoner Granted Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to Jail Book Ban by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Finding that the “library” at Tensas Parish Detention Center (TPDC) “is nothing more than a nominal designation,” the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a prisoner’s request for a …
News in Brief
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Blount County Jail guard received a decade behind bars on October 21, 2025, for a brutal assault that was captured on security video, according to WVTM in Birmingham. Joseph Ray Snow, 45, was sentenced for assaulting detainee Jonathan Calloway in 2022. Calloway, who …
Louisiana Detainee Captured After Two Previous Escapes
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Escapes, Jail Specific, Assaults on Staff, Prior Conviction/Sentence/Incarceration
Louisiana Detainee Captured After Two Previous Escapes by Cecil Michael Stratton, 46, a detainee held at the Berwick Police Department Jail, was apprehended on November 15, 2025, after escaping from the facility earlier that week.  Around the time he was initially booked, Stratton fought with guards as the jailers were …
Record $42.75 Million Verdict in Louisiana Detainee’s Death in LaSalle Jail
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Contractor Liability, Failure to Train/Supervise, Deliberate Indifference
Record $42.75 Million Verdict in Louisiana Detainee’s Death in LaSalle Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In one of the largest verdicts ever returned in a suit over an American jail death, a federal jury in Louisiana awarded $42.75 million on October 20, 2025, to the Estate of Erie …
DOJ Leaves Louisiana Over-Detention Suit on Life Support, Two Others Granted Class-Action Status
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Class Certification, Habeas Corpus, Overdetention, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, Unlawful Detention
DOJ Leaves Louisiana Over-Detention Suit on Life Support, Two Others Granted Class-Action Status by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A prison case filed in Louisiana by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has languished since new leadership was appointed in January 2025 by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R). Filed by the …
Prisoners and Detainees in the Gulf Coast Are Particularly at Risk from Natural Disasters
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Shelter, Exposure to Heat, Hurricane Katrina, Immigration Detention
Prisoners and Detainees in the Gulf Coast Are Particularly at Risk from Natural Disasters by The Gulf Coast of the United States stretches across five states in the Southeast. Within that region, more than 270,000 people are incarcerated in jails, prisons, and other detention facilities. For the prisoners and detainees …
Louisiana Prisoner’s Mother Sues Warden Following Son’s Death
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Protective Custody, Deliberate Indifference
Louisiana Prisoner’s Mother Sues Warden Following Son’s Death by On November 5, 2024, Cornelius Kelly, 39, a prisoner at the Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI) in East Faliciana Parish, was fatally stabbed three times in the chest and abdomen by another prisoner in the facility’s yard. According to a wrongful death …
Fifth Circuit Remands Louisiana Detainee’s Medical Grievance Case
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Summary Judgment, Discovery, Pro Se Issues, Grounds for Relief, Deliberate Indifference
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
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
Filed under: Escapes, Overcrowding, Staffing, Plumbing, Security Systems, Release and Reentry, Consent Decrees, CRIPA
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 …
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict-Punitive Damages, Wrongful Death, 2025
Brief • October 21, 2025
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
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 …
Moore v. LaSalle Corrections, Inc., LA, Jury Verdict, Wrongful Death, 2025
Brief • October 20, 2025
Filed under: Wrongful Death, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death)
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 …
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