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Eighth Circuit Revives Case Against Guards Who Failed to Intervene As Chaplain Sexually Assaulted Arkansas Prisoner by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Officials at the McPherson Unit in the Arkansas Department of Corrections turned a blind eye as Chaplain Kenneth DeWitt sexually abused several prisoners for years. The chaplain has …
Private Prison Firm GEO Group Reports Record $254 Million Profit After New ICE Contracts by Brett Wilkins by Brett Wilkins This article was originally published in Common Dreams.   Private prison company GEO Group on February 12, 2026 reported a company record of $254 million in profit last year—a roughly …
New York State Moves to Dismiss Hundreds of Prison Sexual Assault Lawsuits by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott In a calculated effort to evade liability for systemic custodial sexual violence, lawyers for New York State plan to ask judges to dismiss approximately 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits based …
$2 Million Settlement Reached for 12-Year-Old’s Gang Rape in Detroit Juvenile Detention Center by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 26, 2025, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Wayne County agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims brought by the mother of a former …
$4 Million Paid to Former Rikers Island Detainee Whose Reports of Repeated Rapes Were Ignored by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On October 29, 2025, the City of New York authorized three payouts totaling $4 million to Terrence Rodgers, 32, a former detainee in the City’s Rikers Island jail complex, …
The DOJ Orders Prison Inspectors to Drop LGBTQ+ Protections by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ prisoners from sexual violence. An internal memo, dated to December 2, 2025, stated that “effective immediately” prisons and jails will no longer face penalties for violating …
New Jersey Breaks Ground on New $330 Million Women’s Prison After Raid at Old Facility by In October 2025, New Jersey broke ground on the construction of a new 420-­bed, $330 million prison for women that will replace a crumbling 112-­year-­old facility that shuttered in 2021. The Edna Mahan Correctional …
Prisoner Assaulted by BOP Guard and Left With Bleeding Rectum—Then the Cover-Up Began by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A 50-­page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on October 30, 2025, seeks “some measure of justice” for the prisoner who filed it, identified in …
Hawaii Prison Warden Reinstated After Being Fired in 2014 for Sexual Harassment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson On September 17, 2025, the Hawai’i State Supreme Court affirmed a ruling allowing a warden who was fired in 2014 over a litany of accusations, including sexual harassment, to be reinstated. The …
Fifth Circuit Dismisses Sex Abuse Claims Filed by Three Texas Prisoners Against Guard by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a frustrating series of court rulings, three Texas prisoners seeking redress for a guard’s blatant sexual abuse saw their last claims dismissed on April 15, 2025. Though devastating for them, …
$100,000 Settlement Reached Between Imprisoned BOP Guard and Prisoners He Raped by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman When he was sentenced to prison on July 3, 2025, former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Mikael Rivera, 48, received an eight-year term for sexually assaulting three prisoners at the Federal Detention …
San Diego County Files Unusual Suit Against NaphCare Over Jail Detainee’s Murder by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On September 18, 2025, less than a month after losing a bid to dismiss a wrongful death suit filed by the survivors of a detainee murdered in the county lockup, San Diego …
New York Jury Convicts Former Guard for Robert Brooks’ Taped Killing by On October 20, 2025, a jury convicted a former prison guard of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old prisoner at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York. David Kingsley, the convicted guard, …
Nearly $528,000 Paid by Kansas Jail to Detainees Raped by Guards by Chuck Sharman   by Chuck Sharman   Two suits filed by victims of guard rapes at Kansas’ Sedgwick County Adult Detention Center were concluded in April 2025, with three women taking $527,979.50 from Sheriff Jeff Easter for the …
Article • October 1, 2025 • from PLN October, 2025
How Nepotism in New York Prisons Cost Prisoners Their Lives by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Martuscello family, a practical dynasty within New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), manipulated the system to take power and avoid accountability while overseeing a system that perpetuated physical and sexual …
Fifth Circuit Greenlights Federal Takeover of Mississippi Jail by David Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit approved the appointment of a receiver to oversee operations of the Raymond Detention Center (RDC) in Hinds County, Mississippi. The district court’s action was a contempt sanction imposed for the …
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 …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Tenth Circuit Ruling Paves Way for $2.7 Million Settlement for Intellectually Disabled Jail Detainee Raped by Sheriff by David Reutter In a settlement reached on December 20, 2024, Colorado’s Sedgwick County agreed to pay $2.7 million to Peatinna Biggs, an intellectually disabled former detainee in the county jail who was …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions in Texas Juvenile Detention by Chuck Sharman Texas lawmakers took steps in opposite directions toward solving a crisis in state juvenile detention centers, after all five lockups operated by the state Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) were found to be violating the civil rights of youthful offenders …
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