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Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
20 South Carolina Prisoners Sentenced So Far for Deadly 2018 Riot by Two South Carolina prisoners were sentenced on December 10, 2024, for their roles in a riot that killed seven fellow prisoners and injured 20 more. They were the most recent of 20 prisoners sentenced so far for convictions …
BOP Prisoners in Alabama Strike to Protest Release Date Confusion by On September 11, 2024, several prisoners began a hunger strike at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Montgomery, Alabama, protesting a frustrating lack of clarity about their release dates fully six years after the First Step Act of 2018 …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Aryan Warriors Leader Among Three Killed in Nevada Prison Riot by A fight at Nevada’s Ely State Prison on July 31, 2024, left nine prisoners injured and three others dead—including Aryan Warriors (AW) gang leader Zackaria Luz, 43. No staffers were reported injured by the state Department of Corrections (DOC), …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Pennsylvania County Retakes Control of Jail From GEO Group by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On April 6, 2022, Pennsylvania’s Delaware County assumed control of its jail for the first time in 24 years, after terminating its contract with the Florida-based GEO Group. Prior to that, the 1,800-bed George W. …
Article • September 29, 2022
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Staffing
Five Hospitalized After Prisoner Take-Over Put Down at Short-Staffed New Orleans Jail by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On Sunday, August 14, 2022, barely one hundred days into her tenure as New Orleans Parish Sheriff, Susan Hutson was confronted with a prisoner takeover of a cellblock in the …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
California Appeals Court Reverses Dismissal of Charges Against Prisoners Charged in Pelican Bay Riot by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 9, 2021, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a decision handed down by the state’s First District Court of Appeal on March 29, …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Scores of Ecuadoran Prisoners Die in Coordinated Melees by Ecuador’s prison system has been operating in crisis mode for three years. Beginning in 2019, 24 prisoners were killed in overcrowded prisons holding over 38,000 prisoners which was designed and built to hold 27,000. That number soared to 103 deaths in …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Rebellion at GEO-Run Prison in New Mexico by A three-hour uprising at a privately-run medium security prison in New Mexico on November 2, 2020, led to a few prisoner injuries, a fire and property destruction. It was an “incident [that] absolutely could have been prevented,” said said the state’s Corrections …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Charges Finally Announced 32 Months After South Carolina Prison Riot by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Shortly after the deadliest prison riot in 25 years, officials launched an investigation into the events surrounding the April 25, 2018, incident at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution (LCI). After more than two …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Food, Water
Georgia Prisoners Lacked Food, Water, Leading to Melee by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A violent disturbance was reported inside Georgia’s Ware State Prison in early August 2020. A prisoner reporting from inside the prison on an illegal cellphone cited health issues, three meals a day consisting only of cheese …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Prison Rebellion
Hawaii Prisoners Rebel Over Prison Conditions, Fined For Damages by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Prisoners of the Maui Community Correctional Center (MCCC) rioted March 11, 2019, over unstable, inhumane and unconstitutional living conditions. Complaints about broken telephones, uncollected mail, overcrowding, shortened visits and other problems resulted in prisoners from …
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Sixth Circuit Upholds Denial of Interviews with Lucasville Prison Riot Participants by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The April 1993 riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville resulted in the deaths of one guard and nine prisoners. Journalists have long tried to interview some of the prisoners involved …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Military-Style Attack on Brazilian Prison Kills 20 Prisoners, One Guard by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On April 10, 2018, a group of gunmen attacked the Santa Izabel Prison Complex near the northern Brazilian city of Belem. The state security service said 21 people were killed in the military-style assault …
New Rule Sparks Uprising at California Sex Offender Civil Commitment Facility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On January 14, 2018, about 400 to 500 civilly committed sex offender “patients” met in the common area of California’s Coalinga State Hospital to protest a stringent new rule that went into effect …
Article • July 3, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Lawsuit on Behalf of Prisoners in 1993 Lucasville Riot Challenges Ban on Media Access by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On April 11, 1993, hundreds of prisoners began rioting at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. The disturbance lasted eleven days, resulting in the deaths of nine prisoners …
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Lawsuits Filed, Renewed Push to Block Cell Phones After Deadly South Carolina Prison Riot by Steve Horn by Steve Horn In the two months following an April 15, 2018 riot at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina that left seven prisoners dead and at least 22 injured, the …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Rash of Security Breaches Plagues Nation’s Prisons and Jails by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A review of recent news reports has revealed a recent spate of security breaches by both jail detainees and state and federal prisoners across the country. In October 2017 alone, escapes were reported in ten …
Article • May 4, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Prison Rebellion
Photos Show Aftermath of Lethal South Carolina Prison Brawl that Left Seven Dead by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Photos obtained by Prison Legal News appear to show the bloody aftermath of a riot that occurred at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina around 7:15 p.m. on April 15, …
Deadly Prison Riot in Delaware: 18 Prisoners Indicted, Slain Guard’s Widow Settles Suit for $7.55 Million by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In October 2017, a New Castle County, Delaware grand jury indicted 18 prisoners from the maximum-security James T. Vaughn Correctional Center, 16 of whom were charged with the …
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