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California Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Ripped Off Prisoner by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Jin Woo Park was a prisoner of the State of California at the Corcoran State Prison when he hired Michael L. Guisti to file his petition of habeas corpus in both state and, if …
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 …
Arkansas “Jailhouse Attorney” Secures Return from Retaliatory Transfer Out of State by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a settlement reached on October 22, 2025, the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to repatriate a state prisoner shipped to a federal lockup in West Virginia, restoring his job upon return …
Maine Superior Court Order to Reform Public Defender System Paused on Appeal by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a class-action suit, the Kennebec Superior Court of Maine ordered commissioners of the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services (“MCPDS Defendants”) to create a plan to remedy the systemic failure to …
Jailhouse Lawyer Gets 16-1/2-Year Sentence for Defrauding Prisoner “Clients” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Admitting to a federal judge that he “made some mistakes,” a self-described jailhouse lawyer said that one mistake “was being overly optimistic on a few occasions and sharing that optimism with clients.” But since he …
Eleventh Circuit Declines to Extend to Summary Judgment Proceedings a Rule Requiring District Courts to Notify Pro Se Litigants by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declined to extend to summary judgment proceedings based on Bank v. Pitt, …
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 …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Ohio Sued by Non-Profit Law Firm for Opening Prisoner Legal Mail by On May 6, 2025, the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a non-profit law firm, filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (DRC) over the practice of intercepting mail between prisoners and their attorneys. The …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Arkansas DOC Settles Retaliation Claim by Prisoner Who Also Won Back Confiscated COVID-19 Stimulus by After the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) reached a settlement with state prisoner Anthony Lamar in his retaliation claim against officials at the Varner Unit, the federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas granted …
Seventh Circuit Lets BOP Restrict Access to Federal Register from Prison in Illinois by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on July 30, 2024, that the First Amendment does not require the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide full, daily access to the Federal Register …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Report Finds Exploitative Disciplinary Fines in One-Third of U.S. Prison Systems by "In yet another example of how the criminal legal system extracts wealth from the poorest families, at least one-third of prison systems nationwide charge fees as a punishment for a rule violation.” So begins a report released by …
DOJ Concludes BOP Pretrial Detainees Need Improvements in Access to Attorneys by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a report and recommendations concerning access to attorneys for pretrial detainees in federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities. The report focused on …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Watchdog Report Attempts to Prove Epstein Suicide by Nearly four years after billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found fatally hanged in his cell at a now-shuttered federal lockup in Manhattan, officials attempted to confirm it was a suicide in a report released on June 27, 2023, by Michael Horowitz, …
Nearly 5,000 Sexual Victimizations Counted in Three Years in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 31, 2023, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report counting 4,895 sexual assaults on U.S. prisoners and detainees in just three years. From 2016 through 2018, the …
Newly Released Government Records Reveal Horrible Neglect of Terminally Ill Woman in Federal Prison by C.J. Ciaramella by C.J. Ciaramella A woman who died in federal prison suffered in pain for eight months while waiting for a routine CT scan, records released to Reason show. Doris Nelson was one of …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Fifth Circuit: Martinez Report May Not Override Factual Allegations in Prisoner’s Complaint by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that facts alleged in a supplemental administrative report which a district court requested from prison officials may not …
Article • May 1, 2022
Chief of Training for Hawaii Prison and Jail Guards Charged with Falsifying Educational Credentials, Out on Paid Leave by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Hawaii Department of Public Safety (DPS) Public Training Officer J. Marte Martinez, who oversaw the training of thousands of state prison guards and deputy …
Investigation Finds Hundreds of Unreported Deaths in Tennessee Prisons and Jails by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead A November 2021 investigation by Knoxville TV station WBIR found prisons and jails across the Volunteer State were underreporting in-custody deaths to the state Bureau of Investigation (TBI), in apparent violation of Tennessee …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
California Supreme Court Reclassifies Clemency Records, No Longer Confidential by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On May 26, 2021, the Supreme Court of California filed en banc a new administrative order changing the Court’s published Internal Operating Practices and Procedures regarding the confidentiality of clemency records. The Court had previously …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Department of Justice Reports on Two Decades of Prisoner Suicides by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When actor Peter Robbins died by suicide in California on January 18, 2022, the news saddened fans of Charlie Brown, whose voice he provided for animated Peanuts specials in the 1960s. But Robbins, 65, …
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