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Former Prisoner Informant Appointed Deputy Director of BOP by On June 5, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) tapped Tennessee businessman Joshua J. Smith, 50, to serve as Deputy Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Smith, whom Trump pardoned in his first term, is the first former prisoner …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Los Angeles County Pays $24 Million to Two Former Prisoners Wrongly Convicted as Teens of 1997 Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 7, 2024, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $24 million settlement for two California men who were wrongly convicted as teenagers of …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Unintended Consequence of Texas Prisoner Tablets: Retaliation from Fellow Prisoners by As prisons and jails make services available to prisoners via electronic tablets, they report generally positive results, especially the easy access to information that the systems provide. But in an essay published by Prison Journalism Project on March 19, …
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 …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
HRDC Wins $14 Million Settlement for Exonerated Florida Prisoner by On February 15, 2024, the Tampa City Council approved a $14 million settlement with Robert DuBoise, 59, a man who spent 37 years wrongfully imprisoned for a 1983 rape and murder he didn’t commit thanks to the two leading causes …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Oklahoma Prisoner Uses COVID-19 Stimulus Check to Overturn Conviction by In June 2023, a judge in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah County overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Dority, 65, after the state prisoner spent his COVID-19 stimulus check to hire a private investigator, who then got a key witness to recant his …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
George Floyd’s Killer Stabbed 22 Times in Federal Prison in Arizona by On November 24, 2023, Derek Chauvin, 47, the former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd—touching off nationwide protests against police brutality in summer 2020—was stabbed 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tucson, Arizona, where …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
SCOTUS Ruling Forces Ninth Circuit U-Turn on Damages Suit by Federal Prisoner in California “Snitch Jacketed” by Guard by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On October 11, 2022, the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of California prisoner’s suit alleging he was assaulted because a guard …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Settlement Extended Again After Federal Judge Faults California Prisons for Using Snitches in Solitary and Parole Procedures by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 24, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of California granted another 12-month extension to a 2015 settlement. That agreement was made between the …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Informants, Tape Recordings
Wisconsin High Court Admits Into Evidence Secret Tape of Prisoner Made by Fellow Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On July 1, 2022, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin decided that just because a jailhouse snitch used a government-provided device to tape incriminating statements made by a fellow pretrial …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Second Circuit Reverses Summary Dismissal of Connecticut Prisoner’s Failure-to-Protect Lawsuit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 15, 2020, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s granting of summary judgment to prison officials in a Connecticut prisoner’s lawsuit over their failure to protect him from retaliation …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Tioga County, New York Police Informant Paid $50,000 to Settle False Arrest Claims by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On November 8, 2019, three New York detectives agreed to pay $50,000 to settle false arrest claims brought by an informant they charged with conspiring to kill an Assistant District Attorney …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
$110,000 Settlement for Outed Wisconsin Prisoner Informant by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Regular readers of Prison Legal News may remember the April 2019 article (page 61) chronicling the story of Wisconsin prison guard Sergeant Robert Wilcox. Wilcox placed images of a rat, signifying an informant, next to the names …
Wisconsin State Prison Sergeant Rats Out Prisoner Informants by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  It is unfortunate that one of the first things someone learns after being incarcerated is to never, ever trust anyone. Now-retired Wisconsin prison captain Jason Wilke is a poster-child for the never-trust-anyone creed, demonstrating that it …
Former Mexican Mafia General Turned Informant Receives $25,000 from GEO Group, 20 Years in Prison from Feds by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke After former Mexican Mafia general Raymond S. “Indio” Tellez agreed to testify against the gang, two gang members stabbed him multiple times in a secure area of …
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Informants
Florida: DHS Snitch Busted for Trying to Sell Informant Status to Federal Prisoner by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On February 26, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Darrin P. Gayles sentenced a former confidential informant for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to a year in prison and a …
Article • June 8, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Ninth Circuit Orders Sealing of Court Documents that Reveal Informant by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 12, 2017, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court’s denial of a defendant’s motion to seal all documents related to the lower sentence he received because he informed …
Brief • December 22, 2017
Snodgrass v. Messer, Amici Curiae, 2017 No. 17-635 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States ———— KEVIN SNODGRASS, JR., Petitioner, v. S.L. MESSER; M.L. COUNTS; C. BISHOP; E.R. BARKSDALE; J. BENTLEY; JOE FANIN; TORI RAIFORD; GARRY A. ADAMS; HAROLD CLARK, Respondents. ———— On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari …
Article • November 16, 2017
State Bar of Texas Pursuing Disciplinary Action against Prosecutor Who Lied about Deals with Jailhouse Informants in Capital Case by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In September 25, 2017, the State Bar of Texas filed a disciplinary action against former Harris County Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth A. Exley. She is …
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