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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
California Prisoners Sue Gynecologist for Sexual Abuse by Casey Bastian On February 2, 2025, a class-action complaint was filed by women housed at the California Institute for Women (CIW). The suit alleges that Dr. Scott Lee abused dozens of prisoners for at least seven years while he acted as the …
$75,000 for Transgender Maryland Prisoner Raped by Guard by Chuck Sharman On September 25, 2024, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) agreed to pay $75,000 to a transgender state prisoner who accused a guard of raping her in December 2021 at Patuxent Institution, a treatment facility …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
$1.2 Million for New York Prisoner Waterboarded by Guards by Chuck Sharman On March 25, 2025, the federal court for the Northern District of New York granted dismissal to a suit filed by former state prisoner Matthew Raymond, after he accepted a $1.2 million settlement from the state Department of …
Former Oregon Prison Guard Sergeant Sentenced for Sexually Abusing Imprisoned Women by Matthew Clarke As PLN has extensively reported, the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF), Oregon’s only women’s prison, has been a decades long hotbed of staff sexual abuse. Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) administrators have long known about the …
Third Circuit Upholds Award of $265,000 to Prisoner Who Was Sexually Assaulted Twice by the Same Guard by Douglas Ankney The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a jury’s award of $265,000 to Pennsylvania prisoner Henry Unseld Washington who was sexually assaulted twice by guard T.S. Oswald. …
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