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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
From the Editor by Paul Wright   After 35 years of publishing Prison Legal News, one thing that has become clear is that when it comes to the American criminal justice system, not all stories have an ending; some are fairly characterized as never-ending stories. We have reported on Rikers Island …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
California Lawmakers Address CDCR’s Banned Book List by Corrections officials usually limit what prisoners are allowed to read. A 2022 report by the nonprofit Marshall Project found that half the United States maintains lists of prohibited publications. California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has some 3,000 disapproved books and …
Filing • December 30, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. Pacific County, et al., WA, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-06068 Document 1 Filed 12/30/24 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, No. 9 Plaintiff, COMPLAINT 10 …
Human Rights Defense Center v. Pacific County, et al., WA, Complaint, Censorship, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-06068 Document 1 Filed 12/30/24 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, No. 9 Plaintiff, COMPLAINT 10 …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Georgia Jail Sued by Local Bookstore Banned from Sending Detainees Reading Materials by When the Avid Bookshop mailed several book orders to prisoners at the Gwinnett County Jail outside Atlanta in May 2023, the Athens retailer likely didn’t expect to become embroiled in a lawsuit almost a year later. Then …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Settlement Agreement and Release, 2024 Docusign Envelope ID: 19D17FBB-93C2-469E-876F-033496C202CE EXECUTION COPY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, v. Civil Action No. 5:21-CV-469-FL Plaintiff, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ISHEE et al., Defendants. This SETTLEMENT …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Settlement Agreement and Release, 2024 Docusign Envelope ID: 19D17FBB-93C2-469E-876F-033496C202CE EXECUTION COPY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, v. Civil Action No. 5:21-CV-469-FL Plaintiff, SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ISHEE et al., Defendants. This SETTLEMENT …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order re Court-Hosted Settlement Conference, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and official capacities; DARCELL CARTER, …
Kansas DOC Claims Discrimination Against Wiccans Was “Inadvertent” by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On September 27, 2023, the Kansas Department of Corrections (DOC) appeared to back down from a fight over providing state prisoners materials from a Wiccan shop—though it maintained a ban on correspondence from the shop owner …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Missouri Expands Prison Mail Ban to Include Books Sent by Family, Friends by After banning state prisoners from receiving physical mail the year before, the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) extended the ban on September 25, 2023, to include books sent to prisoners from family or friends. The rule change …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Seventh Circuit Again Rejects Challenge to Three-Book Limit at Cook County Jail by Now-Dead Detainee by David Reutter David M. Reutter On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a suit filed by a pretrial detainee challenging the contraband policy at the …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting in Part Motion for Summary Judgment, 2024 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION NO. 5:21-CV-469-FL HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. TODD ISHEE, in his official capacity, TIM MOOSE, in his individual and …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Censoring Women’s Health by Kwaneta Harris by Kwaneta Harris In prison, even learning about your own reproductive health is met with repression. This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/censoring-womens-health/ “It’s coming out! Down there!” my twenty-year-old handcuffed neighbor, Mina, says …
Misadventures in Mail Censorship by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer How an incarcerated writer is fighting a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in Pennsylvania prisons This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/misadventures-in-mail-censorship/ From August into September …
Brief • December 7, 2023
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
UnCommon Law-CDCR, Ltr Re Public Comment Re NCR 23-12 Proposed Reg Changes -Dec. 2023 (l) UNCOMMON LAW JUSTICE DONE DIFFERENTLY 318 Harrison Street, Suite 103, Oakland, CA 94607 Tel: (510) 271-0310 | Fax: (510) 817-4918 www.uncommonlaw.org December 7, 2023 CDCR Regulation and Policy Management Branch RPMB@cdcr.ca.gov CDCR Regulation and Policy …
Publication • December 7, 2023
LSPC-CDCR- Public Comments Re Ncr 23-12 Mail Processing - Dec. 2023 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children 4400 Market Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Regulation and Policy Management Branch Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation P.O. Box 942883 Sacramento, CA, 94283-0001 December 7, 2023 Re: Public Comment on NCR 23-12 Dear Regulation …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter  An Arizona prisoner’s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison’s policy on …
HRDC v. Ishee, et al., NC, Order Granting Motion to Compel, 2023 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA WESTERN DIVISION No. 5:21-CV-00469-FL Human Rights Defense Center, Plaintiff, Order v. Casandra Skinner Hoekstra, et al., Defendants. Plaintiff Human Rights Defense Center claims the North …
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