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Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Gag Order on Tennessee Attorney for Criticizing CoreCivic Lifted by Judge by Nashville-area attorney Daniel Horwitz will no longer be barred from publicly criticizing a private prison after the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee amended its rules in May 2025.  The development comes three years after …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Oregon Pays $50,000 to Settle Retaliation Suit by PLN Contributor, Who Wins Release by In March 2024, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by PLN contributing writer Mark Wilson, paying him $50,000 and vacating a prior prison disciplinary finding. Less than a year …
$125,000 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Claim That Guards Set Him Up For Stabbing by David Reutter
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism by On June 15, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on suppression of prison journalism from the inside. The bottom line? Practicing journalism while imprisoned in most states is “extremely difficult and sometimes risky.” News reporting by prisoners …
BOP Slammed for Prisoner Abuse in Now-Shuttered Segregation Unit at USP-Thomson in Illinois by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A report on July 6, 2023, from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs (WLCCR&UA) exposed abuses suffered by prisoners at the hands of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) …
Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless” by In a weird-but-true story that’s oddly fitting for Alabama’s wretched prison system, the body of a state prisoner murdered on November 16, 2023, was returned to his survivors five days later without a heart. That is the claim of a lawsuit filed in federal …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
$50,002 Jury Award to Illinois Prisoner Retaliated Against for Daughter’s Facebook Posts by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 30, 2023, a jury sitting in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois awarded $50,002 in damages to state prisoner Larry ‘Rocky’ Harris on his claim …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
PLN Contributor’s Retaliation Suit Against Oregon Prison Officials Survives by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On July 7, 2022, the federal court for the District of Oregon denied a motion by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to dismiss a suit filed by longtime PLN writer Mark Wilson, accusing officials …
Brief • March 11, 2021
Washington v. BOP, CA, Order, Retaliation for Protesting, 2021 Case 4:21-cv-00787-JST Document 63 Filed 03/11/21 Page 1 of 14 1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KEITH H. WASHINGTON, et al., 7 Plaintiffs, 8 v. 9 FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS, et al., 10 …
Illinois Prison Guilty of Censoring Free Speech Over Facebook Posts by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss An Illinois federal district court held on September 9, 2019, that Larry Harris was retaliated against when he was punished and transferred to a less-desirable prison because of what his daughter, Amanda Carrasco, posted …
Whistleblowing Angola Prisoner Who Faced Retaliation Wins Relief, Redemption by William Kissinger was “widely regarded as a positive leader at Angola by both prisoners and staff” over the 27 years he spent at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. That is, until corrections officials became incensed with the content of his email …
Kissinger v. LeBlanc, LA, Settlement, Retaliation for Media Contact, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00011-JWD-EWD Document 59-2 09/05/17 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA * CIVIL ACTION * * N0.17-0011-JWD-EWD * VERSUS * JUDGE JOHN W. deGRAVELLES * * JAMES M. LEBLANC, ET AL MAGISTRATE JUDGE * …
Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Lawsuit over Improper Solitary Confinement Affirmed by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has dealt a blow to the constitutional rights of imprisoned writers. On December 11, 2012, after serving a lengthy sentence for arson-related crimes in connection with …
Denial of Summary Judgment Upheld in Prisoner’s Retaliation, Excessive Force Suit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 29, 2015, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court’s denial of summary judgment to two U.S. Marshals who allegedly arranged to have a prisoner beaten at an …
Kissinger v. LeBlanc, LA, Amended Complaint, Retaliation for Media Contact, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00011-JWD-EWD Document 9 01/25/17 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA WILLIAM KISSINGER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) JAMES LEBLANC, BURL CAIN, ) DARRYL VANNOY, SETH SMITH, ) ROBERT TANNER, …
Kissinger v. LeBlanc, LA, Complaint, Retaliation for Media Contact, 2017 Case 3:17-cv-00011-JWD-EWD Document 1 01/09/17 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA WILLIAM KISSINGER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) JAMES LEBLANC, BURL CAIN, ) DARRYL VANNOY, SETH SMITH, ) ROBERT TANNER, TIM …
CCA Mother Jones Shane Bauer Corrections Request, CCA, June 28, 2016 All of this combined with many other issues that we have raised in our interactions with Mother Jones to date demonstrate that the magazine’s reporting is defined by factual recklessness, the deliberate concealment of truth and a disgraceful lack …
Photo of Prisoner Beaten by Georgia Gang Members Posted Online by Prisons are designed to be closed institutions, cut off from the rest of the world. Contraband cell phones, however, are opening them up and exposing the reality of what happens behind the walls. When Demetria Harris saw a photo …
Maryland DOC Suspends Volunteer, Drops Literature Program by Mikita Brottman led a reading and discussion group for nine Maryland prisoners serving life sentences at the Jessup Correctional Institution. A professor of literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a psychoanalyst, Brottman volunteered her time for two hours a …
Retaliation against Washington Whistleblowers for Reporting Faked Prison Statistics by Matthew Clarke It seemed like a great idea. The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) would try a pilot program in a couple of 130-bed pods at Airway Heights Corrections Center with the aim of improving prisoner behavior using positive …
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