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Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Wisconsin Hasn’t Created Prison Nursery Program, One Year After Court Order by On February 6, 2025, a Dane County Circuit judge ruled that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) must immediately provide incarcerated mothers with the opportunity to participate in a nursery program that allows them to continue parenting their …
New York City Mayor’s Order Opening Rikers Island to ICE Declared Illegal by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman An executive order (EO) issued by then-New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), allowing agents of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into the city’s Rikers Island jail complex, was declared illegal …
Louisiana Prisoner Granted Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to Jail Book Ban by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Finding that the “library” at Tensas Parish Detention Center (TPDC) “is nothing more than a nominal designation,” the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a prisoner’s request for a …
Maine Superior Court Order to Reform Public Defender System Paused on Appeal by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a class-action suit, the Kennebec Superior Court of Maine ordered commissioners of the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services (“MCPDS Defendants”) to create a plan to remedy the systemic failure to …
Eighth Circuit Orders Preliminary Injunction Requiring Minnesota to Reinstate Program Teaching Biblical “Authentic Manhood” by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered the issuance of a preliminary injunction compelling the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) to reinstate …
Former Prisoners’ Challenge to Virginia Constitution’s Felony Disenfranchisement Clause Allowed to Proceed by Douglas Ankney   by Douglas Ankney   On December 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed an order of the district court permitting Plaintiffs Tati Abu King and Toni Heath Johnson (collectively …
Class-Action Suit at BOP “Rape Club” in California Settled for Record $116 Million by After it was signed into law in 2003, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 147 § 15601 et seq., remained unused for a decade while standards were developed and implemented to curtail rape …
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Milwaukee Jail’s Mail Policy in HRDC Suit by Like many local lockups, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) imposes restrictions on the number and types of books and periodicals that prisoners and detainees can receive. As of July 2024, MCJ’s mail policy required periodicals to be “mailed …
BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual by In a memo dated February 25, 2025, acting federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William Lothrop canceled the agency’s Transgender Offender Manual and ordered its removal from federal prison libraries and the BOP intranet. The move is the latest attempt to comply with an …
Muslim Florida Prisoner Awarded Permanent Injunction to Grow Untrimmed Beard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida awarded a permanent injunction to state prisoner Owen D. Denson, a Muslim known as Abdul Hakeen Jahmal Naseer Shabazz, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Medication, Pain, Injunctions
New York Prisoners with Chronic Pain Win Injunction to Receive Denied Medication by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 22, 2023, the federal court for Southern District of New York granted a permanent injunction to a class of prisoners held by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision …
California Slowed, But Not Barred from “Dumping” Sick, Indigent Parolees on Public Hospitals by On May 26, 2023, California’s Fifth Appellate District Court of Appeals largely agreed with a lower court’s ruling that barred the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and its healthcare arm, California Correctional Health Care …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Seventh Circuit Slams Illinois Civil Commitment Program but Reverses Injunction by “Very weighty interests are at stake when a state institutes a program of civil commitment for sex offenders who, though never tried for or convicted of a crime, are found too dangerous for release.” So began a ruling by …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Exasperated Federal Judge Issues Permanent Injunction to Arizona DOC in Healthcare Class-Action by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On April 7, 2023, a visibly annoyed U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver issued a highly-detailed permanent injunction (PI) specifying what must be done by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
HRDC Granted Injunction to End Censorship in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 31, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Arkansas concluded that a “postcard-only” policy at the Baxter County Correctional Center (BCCC) constituted a de facto blanket ban on publications, in …
Filing • January 26, 2023
Prison Legal News v. Ryan, AZ, Order on Remand, PLN Censorship, 2023 Case 2:15-cv-02245-ROS Document 362 Filed 01/26/23 Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Prison Legal News, Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 …
Brief • January 9, 2023
Filed under: Injunctions
Jensen v. Shinn, AZ, Order, Injuction-Jail Conditions, 2023 Case 2:12-cv-00601-ROS Document 4380 Filed 01/09/23 Page 1 of 64 1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 Shawn Jensen, 9 Plaintiff, 10 11 v. 12 David Shinn1, 13 No. …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: COVID-19, Injunctions
COVID-19 Injunction Lapses in Oregon, Another Fails in Massachusetts by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On June 21, 2022, a preliminary injunction granted by the federal court for the District of Oregon expired, ending its mandate that state prison employees comply with the COVID-19 masking policy of the state Department …
Filing • June 27, 2022
HRDC v. St. Joseph County, IN, USDC, Complaint, Censorship, 2022 USDC IN/ND case 3:22-cv-00489 document 1 filed 06/27/22 page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, v. …
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