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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 …
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 …
News in Brief
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting …
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 …
Ecuador’s Prison System in Catastrophic Crisis
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Prison Reform
Ecuador’s Prison System in Catastrophic Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After a riot in Ecuador’s El Turi prison left 20 prisoners dead on April 4, 2022, Interior Minister Patricio Castillo responded with a vow to “drain the cesspit” that his nation’s prisons have become. But how exactly? Castillo …
News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former guard at the Mobile Metro Jail was scheduled to be arraigned on May 19, 2021, after being indicted for his role in an alleged scheme to smuggle cellphones into the Alabama lockup in exchange for bribes. According to a report by local TV …
Scores of Ecuadoran Prisoners Die in Coordinated Melees
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)
Scores of Ecuadoran Prisoners Die in Coordinated Melees by Ecuador’s prison system has been operating in crisis mode for three years. Beginning in 2019, 24 prisoners were killed in overcrowded prisons holding over 38,000 prisoners which was designed and built to hold 27,000. That number soared to 103 deaths in …
News in Brief
Article • February 7, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Afghanistan: On August 8, 2016, Robert Langdon, a 44-year-old Australian security contractor, became the last Western prisoner to leave an Afghan prison filled with Al Qaeda and Taliban members. U.S. lawyer Kimberly Motley took Langdon’s case pro bono in 2013 and worked diligently to secure his …
South American Prison News
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Filed under: Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International
South American Prison News by Brazil: According to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice there are an average of two and a half riots a day in Brazilian prisons and jails. The Brazilian prison crisis became evident on March 15-16, 1994, when the Archbishop of Fortaleza was taken hostage by prisoners, …
Death Squads and Prison Protests in Ecuador
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International
Death Squads and Prison Protests in Ecuador by According to a note sent to the police in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 12, 1993, a death squad called the "Anti-Crime Clean Up Squad" has claimed responsibility for the death of six common criminals and promised the shooting of another seven. The …