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News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions in Texas Juvenile Detention by Chuck Sharman Texas lawmakers took steps in opposite directions toward solving a crisis in state juvenile detention centers, after all five lockups operated by the state Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) were found to be violating the civil rights of youthful offenders …
$550,000 Settlement After Juvenile’s Suicide at Charlotte Jail by David Reutter On January 2, 2025, a settlement was signed by the Plaintiff in a lawsuit over the suicide of a juvenile pretrial detainee held at the lockup in North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County. Under the terms of the agreement, the County …
New Orleans Public Defender’s “Redeem Team” Says: “Re-entry Is Never Over” by Journalist Radley Balko published an interview on March 15, 2025, with five former state prisoners in Louisiana now employed as peer advocates with the Public Defender’s office in Orleans Parish. Known as the “redeem team,” the five men …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Rikers Island Continues Long Practice of Denying Education to Young Adults by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As PLN reported 25 years ago, the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) was accused in a suit filed by attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of denying educational opportunities to young …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
50 Years After Starting “Scared Straight,” Former N.J. Prison Warden “Would Do It Again” by In a May 2024 interview about the “Scared Straight” program he founded 50 years earlier, former New Jersey prison warden Bob Hatrak, 83, dismissed research showing that the program actually has a counterproductive effect on …
Publication • September 10, 2024
Letter to Governor Inslee about Green Hill September 10, 2024 Dear Governor Inslee, As formerly incarcerated persons who have professional, as well as deep personal knowledge of the process of rehabilitation, we ask that you respect our lived expertise and release youth in our state’s Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) facilities who …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
$500,000 for Texas Teen Sodomized in Jail by According to final judgment entered in federal court for the Southern District of Texas on December 18, 2023, Brazos County paid $500,000 to a former detainee assaulted at the county jail in October 2022. The victim, identified as “A.R.,” was a minor …
Alex a v. Governor Edwards, USA, Statemen of Interest of the USA, Conditions of Confinement, 2023 Case 3:22-cv-00573-SDD-RLB Document 183 07/28/23 Page 1 of 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA ALEX A., by and through his guardian, Molly Smith, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GOVERNOR JOHN …
Article • June 27, 2023
Texas Ships its Most Troubled Youth to Adult Prisons by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi As a result of a significantly depleted work force, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), is imploring judges to send its most troubled and violent youth to the adult prison system operated by the state …
Article • June 13, 2023
Filed under: Juvenile Prisons
Texas Lawmakers Vote to Build New Youth Prisons, Ship Some Teens to Adult Lockups by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a surprising shift, the Texas Legislature approved construction of new state-run prisons for youth and transferring some teenagers from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) to the more punitive …
Article • March 21, 2023
At Least 1,000 Children Taken from Migrant Parents at Border Still Not Reunited With Them by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Five years after they were cruelly separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border, at least 1,000 migrant children have still not been reunited with them. …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Former Judges in Pennsylvania ‘Kids for Cash’ Scandal Must Pay $206 Million in Damages by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye On August 18, 2022, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered two former state judges to pay $206 million in damages for taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to shut down …
Brief • January 19, 2023
Golbert v. Smith, IL, Complaint, Wrongfully Incarcerated, 2023 Case: 1:23-cv-00300 Document #: 1 Filed: 01/19/23 Page 1 of 32 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CHARLES GOLBERT, Cook County Public Guardian, on behalf of J.B., K.J., M.J., D.M., J.R., J.S., …
Article • January 4, 2023
Eighth Circuit Revives Suit Over North Dakota Juvenile Detainee’s Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a private North Dakota juvenile home was liable for the suicide of a 12-year-old …
Article • November 5, 2022
Missouri Jail Guard Charged With Helping Teen Son Escape Juvenile Detention by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On October 25, 2022, a guard at the St. Louis County Justice Center (SLJC) was charged with shattering a window at the building to help her son and another teen escape …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
After $90,000 Settlement for Sexual Abuse of Oregon Juvenile Detainee, Second Suit Filed Against Now-Imprisoned Former Youth Counselor by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 30, 2021, a second suit was filed in Oregon state court accusing former state youth worker Frank Milligan of sexually assaulting a juvenile detainee. …
Article • August 25, 2022
Two Juvenile Behavioral Treatment Centers in Detroit Ordered to Close by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On June 23, 2022, the state of Michigan notified two youth residential behavioral treatment centers in Detroit they had to shutter operations by July 8 due to shocking allegations of staff abuse …
Article • August 25, 2022
Teen with Toy Water Gun Fatally Shot by Off-Duty NYC Prison Guard by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott An off-duty guard with the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC) was indicted on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges—both first-degree and second-degree—in Bronx County Criminal Court on August 22, …
Article • August 5, 2022
Filed under: Juvenile Prisons
Louisiana Moves Juvenile Offenders to Troubled State Penitentiary at Angola by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) announced on July 19, 2022, that approximately 25 teenage juvenile offenders will be transferred from a residential center near New Orleans to temporary housing at the …
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