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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Government Misconduct
Government Quasi-Agency Attempts to Infiltrate Criminal Justice Nonprofit by   The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) canceled some $5 million in funding to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice on April 4, 2025. The decision to end the five multiyear grants to the criminal justice nonprofit was emailed that day …
Prison Profiteers Ready to Help Trump Make Good on Deportation Threats by Because incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) vowed during his campaign to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history,” the stocks of private prison companies, including The GEO Group and CoreCivic, spiked after his election victory on …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Colorado Legislature’s New Jail Oversight Committee Not Weighted in Detainees’ Favor by On June 3, 2024, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed HB 1054 into law, extending the life of a Legislative Oversight Committee to enforce jail standards in the state, while also letting a companion Legislative Oversight Commission on …
GOP Michigan County Commissioner Re-elected— and Headed to Federal Prison by Voters in Michigan’s Monroe County returned Mark Brant to the County Commission on November 5, 2024—most not knowing that he was due to report to federal prison. Brant, 68, was sentenced to an 18-month term in federal court for …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation by Under contract provisions that went into effect on January 1, 2024, prison telecom giant Pay Tel secured a monopoly on video visitation services at Georgia’s Glynn County Jail. A contract addendum inked in June 2023 says that the …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Watchdog Finds “Alarming Conditions” at BOP Women’s Lockup in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   When confronted with prisoner complaints, officials often produce glowing inspection reports and blame prisoners for destroying prison infrastructure. All too often, though, inept supervision is to blame for failure to maintain facilities. …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
More Alabama Prisoners’ Families Say Their Corpses Were Returned Without Organs by More cases have surfaced in which families report organs missing from the bodies of loved ones who died in custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). As PLN reported, the first was the family of Brandon Dotson, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
North Carolina Prison Official Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Program Fraud by On August 15, 2023, the Associate Warden for Programs at North Carolina’s Bertie Correctional Institution pleaded guilty to COVID-19 program fraud. The state Department of Adult Correction (DAC) confirmed that Sean Tracy Dillard, 55, admitted scamming the North Carolina …
“Unethical At Best”: Hawaii Budget Director Charged With Financing New Prison is Former CoreCivic Lobbyist by it would prefer not to run a new Hawaiian lockup, private prison giant CoreCivic is pushing instead to build and lease it—and the firm has a high-placed ally in state Budget and Finance Director …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Government Misconduct
No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops by Charles Ryan, former Director of Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR), was sentenced on February 9, 2024, for an armed and drunken standoff with cops at his Tempe home in January 2022. However, there …
Pennsylvania County Found Skimming Prisoner-Designated Funds from ViaPath Kickbacks by After a Pennsylvania newspaper’s investigation revealed that Dauphin County officials diverted money intended for prisoners earned from jail phone call kickbacks—spending it instead on staff perks and private contractors—state lawmakers began looking at ways to stop them. On September 7, …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Article • April 24, 2023
Top Official in Boston Mayor’s Office Charged With Money Laundering in Prison Drug Smuggling Scheme by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Smuggling contraband into prison – like the synthetic cannabinoid known as K2 or “spice” – is a ubiquitous problem. There is an opportunity to quickly make significant money when …
At Least 35 Florida DOC Employees and Contractors Arrested in Just Over a Year by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott An examination of Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) employee and contractor arrests from March 2021 to April 2022 revealed that 18 were charged with introducing contraband, and another …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Benevolent or Predatory? by Casey Bastian Lake Ozark Politician Gives Women Prisoners Help, Gets Sex by Casey J. Bastian In 2015, Gerry Murawski was an elected city alderman for Lake Ozark, Missouri. Murawski was also engaging in questionable relationships with several young women. During the period of 2015-2016, Murawski would …
Report: Border Patrol Misappropriated Funds and Failed to Provide Proper Medical Care to Accurately Report Migrant Deaths by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a surge in migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border made headlines in March 2020, the federal agency in charge was still trying to address deficiencies uncovered …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Former Angola Warden Burl Cain Appointed Head of Mississippi Prison System by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Former Louisiana State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain’s 21-year tenure running the prison complex at Angola was both long and controversial. His critics accused him of religious bias, blatant racial prejudice and excessive use …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Washington Prisoner’s State Public Records Act Lawsuit Results in His Freedom and $111,194 Award by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 17, 2020, a Washington judge awarded over $110,000 in penalties and attorney fees to a former state prisoner whom another state judge had already freed, all because Snohomish …
Peña Arita v. United States of America, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death by Police Brutality, 2019 Case 7:19-cv-00288 Document 1 Filed on 08/18/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MCALLEN DIVISION ORLANDA DEL CARMEN PEÑA ARITA,§ Individually, as Next …
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