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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
California Prisoners Sue Gynecologist for Sexual Abuse by Casey Bastian On February 2, 2025, a class-action complaint was filed by women housed at the California Institute for Women (CIW). The suit alleges that Dr. Scott Lee abused dozens of prisoners for at least seven years while he acted as the …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Sixth Circuit Holds Dismissal Not Automatic When Plaintiff Simultaneously Files Same Claims in State Court by Anthony Accurso The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s claim of retaliation, finding the district court misapplied a waiver doctrine that prevented persons from …
Ninth Circuit: Continuing-Violations Doctrine Applies for PLRA Administrative Exhaustion Purposes by David Reutter On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a prisoner “need not file repeated grievances if the (prisoner) has identified one continuing harm or a single course of conduct [of] …
Ninth Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Claim Based on Guard’s Thwarting of Administrative Remedies by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s civil rights action for the failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The Court found the prisoner was “reliably informed” by a …
Sixth Circuit Order Sealing Records in Private Prison Shareholder Suit Vacated, Remanded by As of 2016, CoreCivic—formerly Corrections Corp. of America—contracted with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to operate five facilities. In August of that year, a report by the Inspector General for the Dept. of Justice found the …
Class-Action Suit at BOP “Rape Club” in California Settled for Record $116 Million by After it was signed into law in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 147 § 15601 et seq., remained unused for a decade while standards were developed and implemented to curtail rape …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Oregon Prisoners Can Now Seek Economic Damages for Future Lost Income More Easily by David Reutter On January 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of Oregon held that prisoners seeking to state a claim for economic damages in the form of future lost income need not plead an “enforceable right” to …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Nearly $60,000 Awarded to Mother Of Dead Missouri Prisoner In Suit For His DOC Records by Anthony Accurso On April 23, 2024, the mother of a deceased Missouri prisoner prevailed on appeal against the state Department of Corrections (DOC), which a lower court had found knowingly violated the Missouri Sunshine …
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Milwaukee Jail’s Mail Policy in HRDC Suit by Like many local lockups, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) imposes restrictions on the number and types of books and periodicals that prisoners and detainees can receive. As of July 2024, MCJ’s mail policy required periodicals to be “mailed …
$1.2 Million in Settlements Reached in Suit Over Sacramento Jail Murder by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 7, 2025, California’s Sacramento County made a $600,000 offer of judgment that was accepted by the Plaintiffs in a suit filed over a detainee’s murder at the County lockup in 2019. …
Texas Prison Heat Declared Unconstitutional by In a ruling on March 26, 2025, the federal court for the Western District of Texas agreed that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) was likely violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by holding most state prisoners in cells …
Florida Prisoner Released to Die Settles With Centurion Over Ignored Prostate Cancer by In a lawsuit filed by a former Florida prisoner who was released to die from prostate cancer that private prison healthcare giant Centurion allegedly ignored, officials with the company agreed to an undisclosed settlement and claims were …
BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual by In a memo dated February 25, 2025, acting federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William Lothrop canceled the agency’s Transgender Offender Manual and ordered its removal from federal prison libraries and the BOP intranet. The move is the latest attempt to comply with an …
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
Missouri Repeals “Pay-to-Stay” Law by When Missouri Gov. Michael Kehoe (R) signed HB 495 on March 26, 2025, authorizing a state takeover of policing in St. Louis, the bill included repeal of the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act (MIRA). Also known as “pay-to-stay,” it allowed the state to sue for funds …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 7, 2024, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $24 million settlement for two California men who were wrongly convicted as teenagers of …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$3.4 Million Settlement for Minnesota Jail Death Called “Real-Life Nightmare” by When Lucas John Bellamy, 41, was booked into jail in Minnesota’s Hennepin County on July 18, 2022, he informed staff that he had swallowed a bag of drugs shortly before his arrest. He was taken to a hospital, where …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
$18,000 for New York Prisoner Who Alleged Guards Planted Shank in Cell by On July 8, 2024, New York prisoner Kerry Kotler finally achieved a small measure of justice from the state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) officials whom he accused of planting incriminating evidence in his cell …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Missouri Pays More Than $1.2 Million for Deputy Warden’s Sexual Harassment Claim Against Warden by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney For subjecting him to sexual harassment, the state of Missouri paid a jury award of more than $1.2 million in damages, plus legal fees and costs to former Kansas City …
New York Prisoner Awarded Almost $280,000 in Retaliation Claim Against Guards by Legal costs and fees awarded on January 6, 2025, nearly tripled a $100,000 jury verdict for New York state prisoner Crushaun Hundley in his retaliation claim against a pair of Elmira Correctional Facility guards. The U.S. Court of …
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