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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
HRDC Wins Consent Decree, $350,000 in Jail Censorship Suit against California’s Sonoma County by Chuck Sharman On June 2, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of California issued a consent decree settling demands for injunctive relief filed by the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) against California’s Sonoma County …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Long-Running Consent Decree Again Extended at Troubled Baltimore Jail by On October 18, 2024, the federal court for the District of Maryland granted a motion to modify a years-old consent decree in a decades-old class-action challenge to conditions at Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center (CBIC). As PLN reported, the …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested in Alleged Smuggling Ring by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on April 9, 2025, that arrest warrants were issued for seven guards at the Telford Unit who are accused of running a contraband smuggling ring at the prison. Seven search warrants were …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Remedying Wrongs by Kenneth Alyass The administrative remedy process is a roadblock to challenging inhumane prison conditions. With the help of advocates, people in prison are fighting back. As a way to challenge the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment, people behind bars have made remarkable use of the very legal …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Cheap Food Enriching Profiteers, Making Prisoners Sick by As a former prisoner told the Vera Institute of Justice, food offers “a sense of relief; when you can go to the kitchen and get a good meal [it’s uplifting].” But as the nonprofit reported on February 27, 2024, there is almost …
The “Lunacy Zone:” How Mississippi Jails 700 Mentally Ill People a Year Without Charges by A Mississippi Today article published on July 24, 2023, examined why the Magnolia State jails the mentally ill without charges for longer than any other state. As in every other state, Mississippians picked up by …
Nevada Prisoner Wins Injunction Requiring DOC to Provide Exercise Despite Guard Shortage by by Matt Clarke On June 6, 2023, Judge Cristina D. Silva of the federal court for the District of Nevada renewed a preliminary injunction she issued on March 3, 2023, ordering state prison officials to provide prisoner …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Wexford Handbook Warns That Illinois Prisoners “Can Be Very Manipulative” by A “Provider Handbook” for “Physicians, Psychiatrists, Dentists, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants” employed in Illinois state prisons by Wexford Health Sources warns that “[i]nmates can be very manipulative,” so healthcare workers are advised to “[n]ever take anything from or …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Prisoner Health Update: Hemorrhoids by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Hemorrhoids are a very common problem that people do not like to talk about because of their intimate location. Hemorrhoids are both preventable and treatable, but can become significant health problems if ignored. What exactly is a hemorrhoid? …
Doctor Convicted of Sexually Abusing USA Gymnasts Is Stabbed in Prison Cell by One of the more notorious prisoners at a federal lockup in Florida was stabbed by a fellow prisoner on July 9, 2023. Larry Nassar, 59, survived and was recovering from the assault by 49-year-old Shane McMillan. The …
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 • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Menstruation Weaponized Against Women in Prison by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Writers Victoria Law and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff penned a Time magazine article on March 29, 2023, collecting accounts from female prisoners about difficulties dealing with menstruation while in prison. They found the current criminal justice system has …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Seventh Circuit: Low IQ and Segregation Placement May Render Administrative Remedies Unavailable to Indiana Prisoner by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On February 3, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reinstated an Indiana prisoner’s civil rights complaint that had been dismissed because he failed to …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Pennsylvania Jail Hit With Over $1.5 Million in Overages for Guards, Healthcare by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On April 24, 2023, the board of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County Prison unanimously recommended requiring extended shifts for five sergeants who supervise guards at the jail. That’s because after county lawmakers ended …
Publication • June 12, 2023
UCLA School of Law-How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers Do Vital Work Despite the Courts, 2023 UCLA School of Law Public Law & Legal Theory Research Paper No. 23-07 HOW PRISONERS' RIGHTS LAWYERS DO VITAL WORK DESPITE THE COURTS BY SHARON DOLOVICH PROFESSOR OF LAW Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4476714 \\jciprod01\productn\U\UST\19-2\UST210.txt unknown …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Chronic Punishment: The Unmet Health Needs of People in State Prisons by Leah Wang by Leah Wang Over 1 million people sit in U.S. state prisons on any given day. These individuals are overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately Black, Native, Hispanic, and/or LGBTQ, and often targeted by law enforcement from a young …
From Crisis to Care-Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prison-Feb. 2023 February 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report aims to center the experiences of people incarcerated in California women’s prisons, which remain a serious and entrenched public health crisis. According to data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), …
Brief • May 17, 2023
In Re Tehum Care Services, Inc-Brief of Amicus Curiea, Inadequate Healthcare, 2023 Case 23-90086 Document 576-1 Filed in TXSB on 05/17/23 Page 1 of 81 IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION In re: Chapter 11 TEHUM CARE SERVICES, INC. Case No. 23-90086 …
Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Poised for Much-Needed Cleanup by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss California’s Monterey County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) was under the spotlight in October 2022, when two “Jane Doe” lawsuits were filed accusing now-retired Undersheriff John Mineau of sexually harassing a pair of co-workers. But the agency …
California Halted from Re-Integrating “Sensitive Needs” Prisoners Into General Population by David Reutter by David M. Reutter California’s Superior Court for Sacramento County issued a Writ of Mandate on September 30, 2022, ordering the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to “immediately cease” transferring prisoners under a controversial new …
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