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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Fourth Circuit Upholds South Carolina DOC Policy Restricting Prisoner Access to News Media by Those in custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) “lose the privilege of speaking to the news media,” a policy that makes it “unique among prison systems nationwide,” according to the American Civil Liberties …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
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 …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Allegheny County Settles Suit, Lifts Media Gag Policy for Pittsburgh Jail Employees by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 17, 2024, Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County settled a lawsuit brought by a Pittsburgh journalist challenging policies and practices that prevented employees of the county’s Bureau of Corrections (BOC) from speaking about …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Access to Media, Securus
Securus Rolls Out “Free” E-tablets to Texas Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Texas state prisoners have begun receiving free tablet computers from Securus Technologies. By February 18, 2022, the state’s privately contracted provider had distributed 3,500 “e-tablets” to prisoners in seven of its 61 state prisons—Diboll, Bell, Henley, …
Article • May 9, 2022
Three Whistleblower Claims Filed Over Leaked Video of LA Deputy Kneeling on Detainee’s Head, Sheriff Forced to Walk Back Threats Against Reporter by Chuck Sharman By Chuck Sharman On April 26, 2022, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva walked back comments made at a press conference hours earlier, when he …
Federal Judge Rejects BOP’s Attempts to Keep Videos of Force-Feeding Prisoners at ADX Secret by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell   A federal judge has rejected attempts by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to keep videos of staff force-feeding a prisoner on a hunger strike at the Administrative Maximum Facility …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Marquette Law Review-Orange Is the News Blackout-The First Amendment and Media Access to Jails, 2021 Marquette Law Review Volume 104 Issue 4 Summer 2020 Article 5 Summer 2021 Orange is the News Blackout: The First Amendment and Media Access to Jails Frank D. LoMonte Jessica Terkovich Follow this and additional …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
California: Prisoner-Run Journalism Thrives with San Quentin News, Ear Hustle by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Prison journalism is on the comeback in California, and it’s being credited as a rehabilitative tool that is impacting prison reform advocacy in a positive way. When The Prison Mirror was founded in …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
D.C. Appeals Court Mixed on Request for Records and Video by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 10, 2020, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that sought video from the Bureau of …
Illinois Prison Guilty of Censoring Free Speech Over Facebook Posts by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An Illinois federal district court held on September 9, 2019, that Larry Harris was retaliated against when he was punished and transferred to a less-desirable prison because of what his daughter, Amanda Carrasco, posted …
Taha v. Bucks County (Bensalem Township), PA, et al., Verdict, Unlawful Dissemination, PA, 2019 Case 2:12-cv-06867-WB Document 338 Filed 05/29/19 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA DARYOUSH TAHA, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION NO. 12-6867 V. CLASS ACTION BUCKS COUNTY, et al., …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Ballard, KY, order approving injunctive settlement, censorship, 2019 Case: 3:17-cv-00057-GFVT-EBA Doc #: 51 Filed: 03/26/19 Page: 1 of 2 - Page ID#: 297 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION FRANKFORT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, V. RODNEY BALLARD, et al., Defendants. …
Article • July 3, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Lawsuit on Behalf of Prisoners in 1993 Lucasville Riot Challenges Ban on Media Access by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On April 11, 1993, hundreds of prisoners began rioting at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. The disturbance lasted eleven days, resulting in the deaths of nine prisoners …
Big House Books v. Hall et al., complaint, non-religious free books to prisons, 2018 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 1 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 2 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 Page 3 of 8 Case 3:18-cv-00259-DPJ-FKB Document 1 Filed 04/26/18 …
Michigan Sheriff Settles PLN Censorship Suit for $295,000 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In June 2017, Prison Legal News obtained a substantial settlement from the Livingston County, Michigan Sheriff’s Office in a censorship lawsuit. The Livingston County jail agreed to settle after five years of litigation that challenged the …
Ogden v. Figgins, KS, Prelim Settlement, Mail Allowed, 2017 Case 2:16-cv-02268-JAR-KGG Document 26 Filed 07/19/17 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS RUSSELL K. OGDEN ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 16-CV-2268-JAR SHERIFF PETE FIGGINS, Defendant. ORDER PRELIMINARILY APPROVING SETTLEMENT AND AUTHORIZING …
Why Mother Jones Sent a Reporter Undercover as a Prison Guard by by Sydney Smith, iMediaEthics The U.S. news magazine Mother Jones sent reporter Shane Bauer undercover  as a prison guard at a facility run by the private company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).  During that time, Bauer worked at the then-CCA facility Winn Correctional Center in …
Dear Librarian: Filling the Information Gap for Prisoners with No Internet Access by Christopher Zoukis For most Americans, life without Google or Wikipedia would be quite different, and living without Internet access probably unimaginable. One might ask, “How would I obtain the information I need to live my life?” Yet …
CCA Mother Jones Shane Bauer Corrections Request, CCA, June 28, 2016 All of this combined with many other issues that we have raised in our interactions with Mother Jones to date demonstrate that the magazine’s reporting is defined by factual recklessness, the deliberate concealment of truth and a disgraceful lack …
Article • August 24, 2016
Lawsuit Challenging BOP’s Ban on Face-to-Face Media Interviews Continues by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a jury could conclude the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) ban on face-to-face interviews with death row prisoners was not based on security threats related to such prisoners becoming jailhouse celebrities and …
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