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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Shady Firm Awarded $78 Million Contract for Services at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” by An obscure consulting firm in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded a $78 million contract in early July 2025 to provide a range of critical services at a hastily built immigrant detention center in the Everglades, dubbed by state …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
DOJ Tables Controversial Kentucky Prison to Claw Back $500 Million Budget by Since 2006, U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers has worked to bring a new prison to a former strip-mining site in Eastern Kentucky. Although previous budget proposals turned down the project, Rogers was able to secure $500 million in federal …
Ongoing Detainee Deaths Push Rikers Island into Federal Court Receivership by Anthony Accurso When 27-year-old Dashawn Jenkins died in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on April 1, 2025, it was the fifth detainee death of the year and at least the 38th since Mayor Eric Adams (D) took …
California Prison Plagued by Toxic Water and Chronic Illness by For decades, prisoners at Mule Creek State Prison outside of Sacramento, California have raised the alarm about the drinking water. Based on interviews with over 100 prisoners, ex-prisoners, family members, and prison staff, reporting from The Appeal and Type Investigations …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Environmental Impact Statement Released for Controversial Proposed BOP Lockup in Kentucky by On July 10, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed new lockup to be constructed in Kentucky, moving the project closer to construction than it has ever been …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Environmental Law, Water
Contaminated Water a Longstanding Problem at Nebraska Women’s Prison by “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” goes the line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As Coleridge dramatized, water is essential to life, yet most people take it for granted. For those incarcerated, their access to drinking …
California Prison Fined $1.7 Million for Stormwater Discharges, Environmental Violations by On August 1, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of California approved a $1.7 million payment to settle lawsuits accusing the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) of fouling the environment around Mule Creek State Prison …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Judge Dismisses Suit Filed by California Town to Keep State Prison Open by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Prison is big business in America. Not only do billion-dollar corporations compete to warehouse individuals, so do American cities. That’s why in 2021, the California city of Susanville sued the state Department …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Environmental Indifference by Anthony Moffa Exposure to Radon in Prisons May Be Functioning as a Form of Mass Capital Punishment by Anthony Moffa I can’t breathe. –Eric Garner, George Floyd, and at least seventy others   The thought of radioactive gas in the night air in the place you lay …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
Florida Files Environmental Lawsuit Against Phosphate Company Pollution by Panagioti Tsolkas Prisoners Remain Exposed and Without Evacuation Plans by Panagioti Tsolkas "We kept seeing them move the cows, but they didn’t move us.” That was one reply to a series of interviews with people recently held at the Manatee County …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
America’s Biggest Jails Are Frontline Environmental Justice Communities by Adam Mahoney The three biggest county jail systems in the U.S. demonstrate how incarcerated people are uniquely exposed to environmental hazards. by Adam Mahoney, Environmental Justice Fellow with Grist.org For more than half a century, 441 Bauchet Street has been the …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
Potential Radioactive Exposure to Manatee County Jail Prisoners in Florida by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Palmetto, Florida, Manatee County Central Jail (MCCJ) and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) received criticism from prisoners’ rights activists when officials decided that 721 prisoners and detainees were exempt from the mandatory evacuation …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Environmental Law
Harvard Environmental Law Review, Environmental Indifference, 2021 \\jciprod01\productn\H\HLE\45-2\HLE206.txt unknown Seq: 1 18-JUN-21 8:44 ENVIRONMENTAL INDIFFERENCE Anthony Moffa* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
McFadden v. Pfister, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Case# Official Case# 18-1000 18-CV-1000 Opposing Counsel: Institutions: McFadden, LaRoyce #Y19804 v. Johnson, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Defendants: Received Filed Case Name 2/27/19 Date Served 3/1/19 Status closed Class Action D On Appeal C Spears D …
Publication • 2020
2020 Annual Report of the Prison Environmental Justice Project Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails around the World THE 2020 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRISON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROJECT GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROJECT UC SANTA BARBARA TABLE 11. A IV. ACKNO V. E EC OF CONTENTS HOR BIOGRAPHIE LEDGEMEN I …
Article • September 8, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Plans for a New Federal Prison on Coal Mine Site in Kentucky Withdrawn by Panagioti Tsolkas Could the failure to move forward on USP Letcher indicate an end of the Appalachian prison boom? by Panagioti Tsolkas “I refuse to have our community’s future built on the backs of other people.” …
Brief • July 18, 2019
Quiles v. Haines, WI, Complaint, Black Mold, 2019 Case: 3:19-cv-00585-wmc Document #: 1 Filed: 07/18/19 Page 1 of 17 OOC HO H/HLTO, IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT , FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN,. g.0 C NICASIO CUE VAS QUILES, HI; SCOTT ANDRASTEK; CARLOS ABADIA; RAYMOND CODY; TERENCE BREWER; …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Indianapolis Jail Will Not be Run by a Private Prison Company, but is Being Built on Contaminated Land by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The Indianapolis City-County Council has approved a proposal to enter into a 40-year lease to build a new 3,000-bed criminal justice center in …
Article • April 2, 2019 • from PLN April, 2019
Warden Turns Whistleblower, Claims Misconduct, Retaliation by Colorado’s DOC Director by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In October 2018, a warden who blew the whistle on an illegal hazardous-waste dumping scandal involving the head of Colorado’s prison system filed a lawsuit to compel the state to share the results of …
“It Smelled Like Death”: Reports of Mold Contamination in Prisons and Jails by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas “There was big, dark, gray, blackish mildew around the air vent and that’s where the air was coming from … it smelled like death.” – Candie Hailey, Rikers Island pre-trial detainee Over the …
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