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Now Under Federal Receivership, New York City’s Rikers Island Jails Still Have No Plan to Improve, No Firm Date to Close by Chuck Sharman With its sixth and seventh detainee deaths of the year coming just minutes apart on June 20, 2025, New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex eclipsed …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Tenth Circuit Ruling Paves Way for $2.7 Million Settlement for Intellectually Disabled Jail Detainee Raped by Sheriff by David Reutter In a settlement reached on December 20, 2024, Colorado’s Sedgwick County agreed to pay $2.7 million to Peatinna Biggs, an intellectually disabled former detainee in the county jail who was …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Arkansas Ex-Police Chief Known as “Devil in the Ozarks” Re-Captured After Prison Escape by A former Arkansas police chief who was convicted of rape and murder was recaptured on June 6, 2025, two weeks after escaping prison. The state Department of Corrections said Grant Hardin escaped dressed as a 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 …
$500,000 for Colorado Detainee Dropped On His Face by Jailers by Douglas Ankney In a settlement agreement dated May 28, 2024, Colorado’s Jefferson County agreed to pay $500,000 to Frederick Fisk, a former detainee at the county jail who suffered substantial injuries to his face after guards used a jujitsu …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Trio of Guards Fired and Arrested for Smuggling at Louisiana Jails by A rash of smuggling at Louisiana jails put at least three guards in handcuffs in less than a month, beginning on April 17, 2025. That’s when 18-year-old Bossier Parish jailer Colton Davis was arrested on two counts of …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Two Guards Arrested in Two Weeks at Texas Jail by Two jailers were arrested in two weeks at Texas’ Hays County Jail, beginning on April 25, 2025, when guard John Duran, 45, was accused of sending a detainee to shower and watching her bathe on surveillance video. An investigation was …
Washington Prisoner Sues Jail Where Assault Left Him Comatose, DOC Guard Who Then Sexually Abused Him by In July 2024, 37-year-old Nathaniel Woods filed lawsuits against the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Pierce County Jail for an assault he suffered there and sexual abuse by a DOC guard …
Details Vague on Spending from San Diego Jail Detainee Welfare Fund by The commissary operated in San Diego County jails collected enough revenue from detainee purchases to pump up the balance in its Incarcerated Persons’ Welfare Fund (IPWF) to $11.1 million by June 30, 2024. But the office of Sheriff …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
New York Court of Appeals (Lightly) Slaps State Prison Officials for Holding Sex Offenders Past Release by On April 25, 2024, New York’s highest court took up a challenge brought by sex offenders confined in residential treatment facilities beyond expiration of their prison sentences. The result: A puny demand that …
Federal Watchdog, SCOTUS Fail to Limit Solitary Confinement Abuses by Douglas Ankney, Anthony Accurso by Douglas Ankney and Anthony W. Accurso Prisoners have lost two chances to rein in abuses of solitary confinement in the past year, most recently with a toothless advisory from the Office of the Inspector General …
Alaska Supreme Court Revives Prisoner’s Claim for 11-Month Solitary Confinement That DOC Admitted Was Improper by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On December 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of Alaska reversed dismissal of a state prisoner’s claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) against officials with the state Department …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
After Spike in Jail Deaths, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Under California Department of Justice Investigation by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke When detainee Reynaldo Ramos, 55, was found unresponsive in his Robert Pressley Detention Center cell in California’s Riverside County on April 16, 2024, efforts to resuscitate him failed, and …
Inspectors Catch L.A. Jailers Watching Porn by When inspectors from Los Angeles County’s independent Sybil Brand Commission toured the Men’s Central Jail on May 10, 2024, they were alarmed to find a noose hanging in one detainee’s cell. But when one went to guards, they brushed off his report—because the …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials of Cook County in a civil rights action …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Media
Arkansas Sheriff Grilled Over Hit Netflix Show Filmed at Jail by An emergency ordinance passed by the Quorum Court of Arkansas’ Pulaski County on April 22, 2024, demanded answers from county Sheriff Eric Higgins to questions about a TV show filmed at the jail in Little Rock. The county also …
Article • April 26, 2024
After Stripping Crucial Jail Services, NYC Splurges on $90,000 in Submachine Guns for Rikers Island Guards by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi According to a purchase order posted online by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services on June 22, 2023, the city Department of Correction [DOC] paid …
Oklahoma Jail Withholds Death Records, Fails to Report Five Since 2018 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Since 2018, at least seven vulnerable detainees have died at the 366-­bed Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center, 30 miles east of Oklahoma City. Yet despite state law requiring deaths be reported within five …
Sixth Circuit Refuses Michigan Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Despite Guard’s Conviction for Battery by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a Michigan prisoner’s lawsuit with an outrageous-­sounding opinion that a guard “may have violated …
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