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Brief • November 2, 2025
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Second Declaration of Stefano Schiavon, Conditions of Confinement, 2025 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 82-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/02/2025 Page 1 of 92 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 1:24-cv-24253 DWAYNE WILSON, TYRONE HARRIS, and GARY WHEELER, individually and on behalf …
Watchdog Calls Out D.C. for Dragging Feet on Construction of New Jail by Chuck Sharman A report issued by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA) on May 28, 2025, outlined the municipality’s “urgent need for a new jail.” The population of the existing lockup, spread over two adjacent buildings …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Solving the Carceral Understaffing Crisis: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Most prison systems and jails are understaffed, with serious consequences for both the keepers and the kept. In facilities with too few guards, staff members typically have to work longer hours or multiple shifts in higher-stress, more dangerous …
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 …
Brief • March 26, 2025
Tiede v. Collier, TX, Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2025 Case 1:23-cv-01004-RP Document 202 Filed 03/26/25 Page 1 of 91 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION BERNHARDT TIEDE, II; TEXAS PRISONS COMMUNITY ADVOCATES; BUILD UP, INC. a/k/a JUSTICE IMPACTED WOMEN’S ALLIANCE; TEXAS CITIZENS …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Ninth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Over Arizona Prisoner’s Heat-Related Death by The family of Monnie Washburn moved one step closer to holding Arizona prison officials accountable for his preventable heat-related death. On September 10, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Florida Prisoners Sue Over Deadly Heat by A group of Florida prisoners held at Dade Correctional Institution near Miami sued the state Department of Corrections (DOC) on October 31, 2024, alleging that sweltering conditions were leading to serious health risks and deaths. Filed by attorneys with the Florida Justice Institute, …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules by In a desperate bid to get new heat-­related workplace safety rules adopted before summer arrived, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) agreed on April 18, 2024, to drop prisons and jails from the measure. Two temperature …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Texas Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeks Relief from Heat in Un-Air-Conditioned Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A suit filed by a Texas prisoner alleging that stifling heat in his cell threatens his life was allowed to proceed against Defendant officials with the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Illinois Prisoner Succumbs to Heat Wave by The death of Illinois prisoner Michael Broadway, 51, during a heatwave on June 19, 2024, has focused attention on squalid conditions at Stateville Correctional Center. Windows remained unopened and no working fan was provided at the un-­air-­conditioned lockup, according to family attorney Terah …
Brief • July 2, 2024
Voice of the Experienced v. Leblanc, LA, Ruling and Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2024 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 1 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 2 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 3 of 78 Case 3:23-cv-01304-BAJ-EWD Document 70 07/02/24 Page 4 of 78 …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
$9,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Prisoner’s Heat-­Related Illness Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Department of Justice sent a check for $9,000 to a state prisoner in settlement of his claims that he suffered a heat-­related illness, fell and injured himself after state Department …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Record Temperatures in Southern Prisons Called Cruel and Unusual Punishment by On the last day of July 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Earth had just endured the hottest three-week period ever recorded, noting that “for vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe—it is a cruel …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
“Frozen in Solitude’’: Heat-Sensitive Texas Prisoners Get More Than Air Conditioning Locked Inside Former Segregation Cells by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a lawsuit over life-threatening excessive heat at the Wallace Pack Unit in 2018, it realized it needed to apply …
Publication • August 11, 2023
Extreme Heat and Suicide Watch Incidents Amont Incarcerated Men, Aug. 2023 JAMAIOpen,. Network Original Investigation | Public Health Extreme Heat and Suicide Watch Incidents Among Incarcerated Men David H. Cloud, PhD, JD; Brie Williams, MD, MS; Regine Haardörfer, PhD; Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD; Hannah L. F. Cooper, ScD Abstract Key Points …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Filed under: Exposure to Heat
North Carolina Prisoners Languish Without Air Conditioning by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The North Carolina General Assembly approved a $30 million budget to air condition all state prisons in late 2021, but none of it had been spent by May 2022. That left about 15,400 of some 37,000 …
Article • July 14, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Boiling Behind Bars In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter by Alleen Brown by Alleen Brown This article was originally published by The Intercept on February 12, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission. The original, along with photos and maps, may be …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Eleventh Circuit Holds No Qualified Immunity on Deliberate Indifference in Heat Exhaustion Case by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found a Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy employed excessive force by detaining a pretrial detainee “in a hot, unventilated, and unair-conditioned transport van for approximately two …
Freeman v. Lashbrook, IL, Settlement, Deliberate Indifference, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 18-CV-2144-SMY 18-2144 Opp osing Counsel : Freeman, Geoffrey #N40858 v. Lashbrook, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Filed Case Name Defendants: Date Served Received 2/8/19 Status closed 2/15/ 19 Class Act ion □ On Appeal D …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner Dies in 101-Degree Cell by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Hardly a summer passes that prisoners do not die from heat illnesses of one variety or another. This is especially true in the southern part of the country where retributive attitudes prevail along with an enslavement …
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