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Brief • September 15, 2025
Filed under: Bankruptcy
In Re Tehum Care Services, Inc.-Order Granting Motion Determining That Any Payment Obligation by YesCare Corp, CHS TX, Inc, and Corizon Health New Mexico Owed to Ward Was Not Release Case 23-90086 Document 2460 Filed in TXSB on 09/15/25 Page 1 of 5 United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Review: “Reforming the Shadow Carceral State” by In an academic paper published in the November 2024 issue of Theoretical Criminology, researchers Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner, and April D. Fernandes examined efforts to reform what they termed the “shadow carceral state.” While the carceral state encompasses the criminal legal system—jails, prison, …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$815,000 Settlement in Nevada Class-Action Suit Over Debit Release Cards by A Nevada federal district court has approved a $815,000 settlement in a class-action case challenging the use of fee-laden debit cards that prisoners receive upon release, containing the balance from their inmate trust accounts. The lawsuit, filed by former …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Kentucky Supreme Court Voids Prisoner’s $10,972 Jail Fee by David Reutter Striking a rare blow for fairness, the Supreme Court of Kentucky issued a ruling on February 25, 2025, reversing the imposition of $10,972 in jail fees upon Dillian Ford at his criminal sentencing in Carlisle County Circuit Court. Because …
$2.8 Million Settlement in National NUMI Debit Release Card Class Action by David Reutter A $2.8 million partial settlement was reached on March 4, 2024, in a national class action lawsuit challenging excessive fees on jail and prison “debit release” cards. The case was filed in 2015 by the Human …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Wellpath Prepares Plan to Exit Bankruptcy by Prison healthcare giant Wellpath took a step closer toward exiting bankruptcy proceedings on April 15, 2025, when it announced a settlement reached with a group a notch below those senior creditors first in line for repayment. That group of junior creditors includes prisoners …
Muslim Prisoners Face Price-Gouging by A fair amount of ink has been spilled about the high cost of items sold in prison commissaries. From honeybuns to deodorant, it’s all exorbitantly expensive, especially in light of the low wages prisoners are paid. But one often overlooked aspect of commissary pricing is …
GTL, Co-Defendant Agree to $21.3 Million Settlement with HRDC in Price-Fixing Lawsuit by On October 31, 2024, preliminary approval was granted to a settlement reached with the second of three prison telecom giants accused of illegal price-fixing. The suit was filed in June 2020 in United States District Court for …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
National Class Certified in Washington Jail Debit-Release Card Suit by In a suit challenging excessive fees charged on debit cards issued to those released from Washington’s Pierce County Jail, former detainee Plaintiffs secured nationwide class certification on February 13, 2025. But first they had to defeat a motion by Defendant …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Illinois Pretrial Incarceration Becomes Less Random A Year After Elimination of Cash Bail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter One year after Illinois eliminated cash bail, state courts are not only remanding fewer people to jail to await trial but also engaging in more deliberation about pretrial detention. Those …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
$4 Million Settlement Approved in HRDC’s Oregon Debit-Release Card Suit by On December 10, 2024, the federal court for the District of Oregon issued final approval of a $4 million settlement resolving claims by a former Portland jail detainee that money confiscated from her upon booking was eaten up by …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
California Stops Raiding Released Prisoners’ Gate Money by California prisoners will benefit from a policy change announced by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on December 4, 2024. Bowing to pressure from politicians, as well as a class action lawsuit, the CDCR will no longer garnish gate money …
Pay-for-Play Tablets: The Costly New Prison Paradigm by Historically, prisons and jails have been loathe to give prisoners access to technology. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) didn’t even allow prisoners regular access to telephone calls until 2009. Access to internet-based services, which the non-incarcerated take for granted, is …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Pennsylvania County Forgives $65 Million in Jail Pay-to-Stay Fees by Commissioners of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County voted on September 19, 2024, to forgive $65,902,534.98 in debt owed by former detainees at the county lockup for unpaid fees they were charged during their incarceration. Such “pay to stay” fees have ballooned over …
BOP Eases Money Grab from Federal Prisoners by On December 17, 2024, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) issued a proposed rule change to its Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IFRP), outlining how much of a federal prisoner’s trust account may be garnished to satisfy restitution and other court-ordered payments. The …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Prison Reform, Bail, Bail Bonds
Cuyahoga County Judges Vowed to Reform the Bail System. Here’s What Happened. by Ilica Mahajan, Rachel Dissell by Ilica Mahajan and Rachel Dissell Court officials informally changed their bail-setting practices for felony cases. Now, fewer people have to pay to get out of jail, a Marshall Project analysis shows. I …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Washington Spends Only Fraction of Fund to Improve Prisoner Welfare by On October 25, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) announced that it tapped $1.3 million from its Incarcerated Individual Betterment Fund (IIBF)—money that had not been spent, the agency added. Funded 90% by kickbacks from prisoner phone calls …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Louisiana Prisoner Charged With Running Sports Gambling Operation by On December 18, 2024, Louisiana State Police (LSP) arrested Elayn Hunt Correctional Center prisoner Broderick Scott, 48, on charges that he operated a large-scale sports gambling operation from his cell. LSP said that a year-long investigation had identified over 30,000 transactions …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
“Locked In, Priced Out”: Markups and Kickbacks in Prison Commissaries by Drawing from a research database of commissary pricing and markups culled from 26 state prison systems, a report published by The Appeal on April 17, 2024, found commissary prices “up to five times higher than in the community,” with …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Wellpath Declares Bankruptcy by On November 11, 2024, Wellpath Holdings, Inc., and its affiliated corporate entities filed for bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Wellpath is a private, for-profit medical and mental health care provider at approximately 420 detention facilities in 39 states; …
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