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After Judge’s Letter, at Least 22 Former FCI Dublin Prisoners Granted Compassionate Release by Matthew Clarke In May 2024, California federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers took the unusual step of writing a letter to numerous other judges who had sentenced women formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin and …
Guards Used “Blast Grenades” to Break Up Mob Attack in California Prison by On June 6, 2025, Julian Mendez, 46, a prisoner on death row at the Kern Valley State Prison in Riverside County, California, was killed by inmate Mario Renteria, 36, using a makeshift weapon, KGET in Bakersfield reported. …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
JPay Loses Bid to Revoke Class Certification in Washington Prisoners’ Challenge to Crummy Products and Service by Over five years ago, in May 2020, Washington prisoners Michael Linear and Lonnie Burton filed a complaint in state court against prison telecom JPay LLC, which held the exclusive contract with the state …
The Dangerous Practice of Late-Night Jail Releases by Anthony Accurso Researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School have released data on jails which have the practice of releasing prisoners, usually approved for bond, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., revealing that this practice significantly increases the chances that …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$95,000 in Settlements for Illinois Prisoners Retaliated Against for Class Participation in Prison Education Programs by David Reutter On October 4, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) settled the second of two lawsuits brought by prisoners involved in educational programs who claimed that they were subjected to retaliation after …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
$1.6 Million Class-Action Settlement for Virginia Prisoners Subjected to Delayed Release by In an amended agreement filed in the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia on January 28, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Chadwick Dotson and his predecessor, Harold Clarke, promised to pay a total of …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Education
Auburn University’s Prison Education Program ‘Indefinitely Suspended’ by Charlotte West Longstanding prison education programs at two major public research universities in the South face an uncertain future by Charlotte West Just a few months after Georgia State University announced last spring that it would end its college program for incarcerated …
$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
Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department by On March 11, 2025, the federal Department of Education (ED) announced the purge of nearly half of its employees, leaving students reliant on federally insured student loans facing processing delays and potentially predatory loan servicers now unshackled from …
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 • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Long Wait List for Texas’ Only College-Level Re-Entry Class for Prisoners by As of November 26, 2024, more than 250 Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoners were on the wait list for a re-entry class offered at nine state prisons near Huntsville by Lee Community College in Baytown. The …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Nebraska Pioneers Diversion Program to Help Arrested Veterans Avoid Jail by With a law signed by Gov. Jim Pillen (R) in April 2024, Nebraska became the first state to adopt a model program for diverting military veterans from jail into programs offering treatment for the issues underlying their arrest. When …
Washington Prisoners Prep for Firefighting Career After Release by A new program is preparing some Washington state prisoners to become wildland firefighters after release. Though launched only recently, ARC 20 traces its roots to “honor camps” that state lawmakers established in 1939 to clear and maintain land owned by the …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Former Tacoma Reentry Center Severs Washington DOC Contract by Progress House Association (PHA), the sole reentry center in Washington’s Pierce County, ended its contract with the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) on June 30, 2024. Founded by the late Rev. Leo C. Brown Jr., PHA served the formerly incarcerated for …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
New TV Show Dramatizes Prisoner’s Re-entry by In July 2024, the second season premiered of UnPrisoned, a series on TV streaming service Hulu that tells the story of a father rebuilding a relationship with his daughter after serving 17 years in prison. Dealing with reentry after incarceration and its effects …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Florida Reentry “Success” Story: Convicted Embezzler Promoted to Oversee Miami-Dade County Contracts by Though convicted of stealing nearly $500,000 from the Florida town where he used to work, Christopher Kovanes was hired and promoted by Miami-Dade County. That is to the County’s credit, for giving the former prisoner a chance. …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Missouri Prisoners Losing Reentry Money to “Incarceration Reimbursement” by A little-known Missouri law allows the state to confiscate money from prisoners to pay for the costs of their incarceration. That alone is sadly not unusual; most states have some sort of “pay-to-stay” policy. But the severity of such laws—and how …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Education, jobs
Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release by When Brittany Wright, 30, got out of a Washington prison in June 2023, she was confident that it would be easier than her last release 10 years earlier. Back then, she had found it almost impossible to find a …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Georgia Prison Education Program Shuttered by Georgia State University announced on March 21, 2024, that it was pulling the plug on its eight-­year-­old Prison Education Program (PEP), in which 60 prisoners at two state prisons and one federal lockup were working toward college associate degrees. PEP alumni include nine men …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Pro-Navalny Hackers Breach Russian Prison Computers, Lower Commissary Prices by Hours after Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died in prison on February 16, 2024, anti-­government hackers took revenge, breaching information systems of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and posting personal data of some 800,000 prisoners online. Prices at prison …
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