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Article • February 1, 2026 • from PLN February, 2026
New Hampshire Prison System Struggles to Hire Guards by Typically, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections (DOC) graduates two classes of prison guards from its training academy each year. But in August 2025, there were so few candidates that the DOC canceled the most recent class and, as a result, …
Tenth Circuit Reverses Summary Dismissal of Claim Over Prisoner’s Suicide in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 26, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the summary dismissal of a failure-to-train claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit over the suicide …
Deportation of Kenyan Priest Working as Texas Prison Guard Highlights TDCJ’s Dependence on Immigrant Staff by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi, an Episcopal priest, was working as a prison guard in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) until federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Arkansas Guards Can Now Work as Immigration Enforcers by On December 2, 2025, the Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC) signed a Memoranda of Agreement (MOA), also known as 287(g) agreements, with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allowing the federal agency to train guards and give them the power …
Brooklyn Jail Guard Convicted for Shooting and Car Chase by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The New York Times reported that Leon Wilson, 51, a veteran guard at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, was convicted on October 28, 2025, in the borough’s Federal District Court for …
Louisiana Detainee Captured After Two Previous Escapes by Cecil Michael Stratton, 46, a detainee held at the Berwick Police Department Jail, was apprehended on November 15, 2025, after escaping from the facility earlier that week.  Around the time he was initially booked, Stratton fought with guards as the jailers were …
Hawaii Prison Warden Reinstated After Being Fired in 2014 for Sexual Harassment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson On September 17, 2025, the Hawai’i State Supreme Court affirmed a ruling allowing a warden who was fired in 2014 over a litany of accusations, including sexual harassment, to be reinstated. The …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
BOP Cancels Union Rights for Prison Guards by More than 30,000 federal prison guards lost collective bargaining rights when, on September 25, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced it was canceling its union contract with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the umbrella union that represents the …
Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its operations. But at the heart of the most dysfunctional prisons PLN has reported on over the last 35 years is …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Former Maine Prison Guard Arrested and Detained by ICE Agents by Gratien Milandou-Wamba, 32, fled to the United States on a tourist visa in 2023 from the Republic of the Congo; he applied for asylum several months later, claiming that he had been tortured in his home country because of …
New Jersey Supreme Court Refuses Guard’s Challenge to Firing for Failing to Report Kiss with Prisoner by Douglas Ankney On July 23, 2024, the saga of the kiss heard ‘round the New Jersey judiciary came to an end when the state Supreme Court held that the failure of former prison …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
11th Alabama Sheriff’s Employee Pleads Guilty in Jail Detainee’s Death, Admits Stomping Him in Genitals by A deputy sheriff in Alabama’s Walker County Jail pleaded guilty on April 1, 2025, to a federal charge of depriving the civil rights of a mentally ill detainee with a brutal kick to the …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Watchdogs Fault Nebraska Prisons for Suicide Response, Overpaid Staff by Boris Bastidas On August 20, 2024, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) released a report detailing its investigation into three prisoner suicides, finding that DCS did not provide psychological autopsies after …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
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Top Rikers Island Jailers Logged Overtime Equal to 14-Hour Days With No Days Off by The top New York City Department of Correction (DOC) employees in 2024 overtime averaged over 40 extra hours weekly—enough to fill every week with 14-hour workdays all year, with no days off. For the year, …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
New York Lowers Minimum Age for Prison Guards by An approved bill in New York state will lower the minimum hiring age of its prison guards from 21 to 18, following a strike that resulted in over 2,000 guards being fired earlier this year [See: PLN, March 2025, p.61.] The …
$62,500 For Idaho Prisoner Raped by Guard Who Later Committed Suicide by Anthony Accurso An apparent error by attorneys for a former Idaho prisoner limited her recovery to just $62,500 after she was raped by a guard. In a letter to PLN on August 30, 2024, the Idaho Department of …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Trump Guts BOP Guard Union by An executive order signed by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on March 27, 2025, stripped collective bargaining rights from federal unions, including those representing guards working for the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The guards had already lost most or all of their incentive …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Self-Harming Wisconsin Prisoner Settles Failure-to-Protect Suit for $7,000 by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution has been plagued by prisoner deaths and suicides, the most of recent of which are reported elsewhere in this issue. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.33.] One of those who survived a suicide …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
New York Suspends Solitary Ban to Woo Back Striking Prison Guards by Under a deal reached at the end of February 2025 with striking state Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) guards, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) agreed to a 90-day suspension of a law limiting use of …
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