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“Devil in the Ozarks” Gets 13 More Years for Escape by Grant Hardin, a former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder, received an additional 13-year sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to a prison escape in May 2025. Hardin had planned his escape for six months, …
Alaska Deaths in Custody Tie Record High by In a grim milestone that reflects Alaska’s neglect of prisoners, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) reported 18 deaths in 2025, tying the previous record set in 2022. In its coverage of the concerning matter, the Alaska Beacon claimed the death toll …
New York State Moves to Dismiss Hundreds of Prison Sexual Assault Lawsuits by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott In a calculated effort to evade liability for systemic custodial sexual violence, lawyers for New York State plan to ask judges to dismiss approximately 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits based …
D.C. Federal Court Holds Blocking Prison Reform Advocate’s Access to Federal Prisoners May Violate First Amendment and Due Process by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 12, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the government’s motion to dismiss with respect to due process …
Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Two Mississippi Prisons Lose Power During Winter Storm by The record-setting winter storm in January 2026 that brought freezing temperatures and snowfall to large swathes of the Eastern half of the country left at least 17 people dead and nearly a million without power. Much like the deep freeze that …
California Funds $38 Million Pilot Program to Investigate Methods for Cooling Three Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) recently announced a pilot program to study the use of various types of cooling systems and new insulation at three prisons to determine …
$4 Million Paid to Former Rikers Island Detainee Whose Reports of Repeated Rapes Were Ignored by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On October 29, 2025, the City of New York authorized three payouts totaling $4 million to Terrence Rodgers, 32, a former detainee in the City’s Rikers Island jail complex, …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Oklahoma DOC Refuses to Publicly Release Body Camera Footage by Despite spending millions to give guards body cameras, Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections (DOC) will not release footage from the devices to the public. As reported by Oklahoma Watch, the DOC claims that footage recorded within a facility would threaten security …
Mississippi Legislator Blasts VitalCore, DOC for Shoddy Prison Healthcare by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman “We’re spending millions on prison health care,” Mississippi House Corrections Committee Chairwoman Becky Currie (R-­Brookhaven) told Mississippi Today, “and we’re not getting any.” That charge was made on the news outlet’s political podcast, The Other …
Washington Court of Appeals Refuses to Let DOC Play “Both Sides” with State Prisoner by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman When Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) guards failed to provide prisoner Jess Richard Smith with the required notice of his disciplinary sanction, he didn’t serve it—and a DOC hearing officer …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
Wisconsin DOC Releases 1,700 Private Health Records by Mistake by The Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) announced on November 7, 2025 that the private health records of more than 1,700 prisoners and former prisoners had been mistakenly shared. The data breach, which the DOC claimed was done “in error,” was …
Prisoner Assaulted by BOP Guard and Left With Bleeding Rectum—Then the Cover-Up Began by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A 50-­page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on October 30, 2025, seeks “some measure of justice” for the prisoner who filed it, identified in …
Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Widespread Abuse of Restraints on Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A June 2025 report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) called out the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for misuse of restraints on prisoners. The OIG also called on BOP …
$950,000 Awarded to Trans Maryland Prisoner Dropped on Her Face by Guards by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Between 2022 and 2025, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) held between 17,164 and 18,476 prisoners and detainees, according to data from the agency’s website. During that same …
Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
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 • 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 …
BOP Shutters “Rape Club” in California, Director Peters Quits by The troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) lost Director Collette Peters on January 20, 2025, when she resigned just as incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) was sworn into to office. Peters held the job for just 30 months, and …
Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Claim for 11-Month Solitary Confinement That DOC Admitted Was Improper by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of Alaska reversed dismissal of a state prisoner’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) against officials with the state Department …
“Are You Freaking Kidding Me?” Former BOP Warden Accuses Guards of Recruiting Prisoners for Assaults at Troubled Lockup in Illinois by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Before he retired in July 2023, Warden Thomas Bergami was sent by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to the U.S. Penitentiary (USP) …
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