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Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
Ninth Circuit: Notice of Appeal of Order Denying Qualified Immunity Must Be Filed Within 30 Days of Entry by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that 28 U.S.C. section 2107(a) requires that a notice of appeal of …
Maryland Agrees to Pay $30,000 to Prisoner Who Was Beaten by Guards While Handcuffed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 22, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted dismissal to a suit filed by state prisoner Keith Darnell Kelly, after he accepted a $30,000 …
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 …
$5,000 Settlement for Missouri Prisoner’s Retaliation Claim After Eighth Circuit Dismissed Due Process Claim Over Falsified Disciplinary Report by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman It took over 15 months, but PLN finally received documentation that the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) paid $5,000 to state prisoner James Spann to settle …
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 …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Liberty Interest in Harsh Solitary Confinement Case by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2020, Abre Jackson was involved in a physical altercation with prison guards at Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center when he stuck his arm through a small “chuckhole” in his cell door. As a result, …
Seventh Circuit Rules Against Prisoner’s Deliberate Indifference Claim Over Wexford Health’s Poor Psychiatric Care by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Cordell Sanders spent eight years in segregation housing at the Pontiac Center in Indiana after committing multiple disciplinary offenses. While being held apart from others, he suffered from severe mental …
Multiple Prisoner Suits Accuse Guards of Violence at Virginia BOP Lockup by Chuck Sharman A group of cases pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia paint a picture of senseless violence and petty retaliation by officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the …
New York Prison Officials Found Routinely Violating HALT Act With Overuse of Solitary Confinement by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 18, 2024, the New York Supreme Court for Albany County found that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) routinely violated Correctional Law § 137(6)(k)(ii), the Humane …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Washington Appellate Court: “Some Evidence” Standard for Prison Discipline “Is Not Illusory” by In an unpublished opinion issued on May 2, 2024, the Court of Appeals of Washington ruled that a prisoner found guilty of possessing a weapon was denied due process because the disciplinary finding was not supported even …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Maine State Prison Warden Replaced As Misconduct Allegations Investigated by An investigation into staff misconduct at Maine State Prison (MSP) resulted in replacement of its top leader. New Warden Nathan Thayer began work on May 20, 2024. Meanwhile, state Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Randall Liberty had no update on …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Oregon Transgender Prisoner Claims Abusive Violation of Injunction, but Court Declines Sanctions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke "Does somebody have any common sense?” That was the question U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken had for Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) officials when they appeared before her on December 12, …
New York Revises 2,772 Prisoner Disciplinary Records After Inspector General Finds Defects in Another Contraband Drug Test by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A November 2023 report by the New York Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailed grave defects uncovered by an investigation into the Contraband Drug Testing Program …
$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 27, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied state prison officials’ motion for new trial. That left standing a jury verdict finding that …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Dismissal Affirmed of Florida Prisoner’s Claim for Exposure to Human Waste by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the U.S. declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear a Florida prisoner’s appeal to a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals …
Class-­Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC by A suit filed in Washington state court on September 22, 2023, challenges disciplinary sanctions imposed on prisoners by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) based on presumptive drug test results. DOC uses inexpensive colorimetric drug tests to examine …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery by Although Colorado voters amended the state constitution in 2018 to ban slave labor inside state prisons, the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has continued to discipline prisoners for refusing to work—14,000 times just since 2019, according to a …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Seventh Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Seized $10,000 by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 7, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed summary judgment for Defendant Wisconsin prison officials in a prisoner’s lawsuit that alleged a due process violation when he was deprived …
Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Settlement Agreement in Long-Running California Prisoners’ Gang Affiliation Suit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s orders granting California prisoners a pair of 12-month extensions to a Settlement Agreement …
Eighth Circuit Issues Primer on Informal Due Process Procedures to Missouri Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court and granted qualified immunity (QI) to officials with Missouri’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in …
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