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Help Wanted: 31,000 Prison Guard Jobs Open Nationwide by David Reutter The efficiency and functionality of every enterprise rests largely upon the staff put in place to carry out its operations. But at the heart of the most dysfunctional prisons PLN has reported on over the last 35 years is …
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 …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
CDCR Held in Contempt, Fined $112 Million in Longstanding Litigation Over Mental Health Care by Coleman v. Newsom, a class-action case challenging inadequate mental health care for California state prisoners, has been ongoing for the past 35 years. Over the course of that litigation, a bench trial was held where …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
DOJ Inspects BOP Food Service Operations, Finds Troubling Issues at Multiple Facilities by Anthony Accurso In the first week of June 2024, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted surprise inspection at six Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Food Service Departments, finding deficiencies at the facilities which …
Ongoing Detainee Deaths Push Rikers Island into Federal Court Receivership by Anthony Accurso When 27-year-old Dashawn Jenkins died in New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex on April 1, 2025, it was the fifth detainee death of the year and at least the 38th since Mayor Eric Adams (D) took …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Solving the Carceral Understaffing Crisis: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Most prison systems and jails are understaffed, with serious consequences for both the keepers and the kept. In facilities with too few guards, staff members typically have to work longer hours or multiple shifts in higher-stress, more dangerous …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Oregon DOC Replaces Top Medical Staffers Amid Turmoil by On February 25, 2025, less than half of the physician positions budgeted for the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) were staffed. Ten doctors had resigned, been fired or put on leave in the previous year. The decimation of the physician workforce …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
TDCJ to Run Out of Beds in 2025 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Sunset Advisory Commission, an oversight body for Texas government agencies, published a 189-page report in September 2024 that found persistent critical staffing shortages are making Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisons unsafe for staff …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
“Swing or Kick Rocks”: BOP Guard Alleges Conspiracy to Brutalize Prisoners at Kentucky Lockup by Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Lt. Terry L. Melvin was not the first to admit brutalizing a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Big Sandy, Kentucky. But with his guilty plea …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Filed under: Overcrowding, Staffing
No State Oversight of Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Non-Compliant Idaho Jails by A news report by nonprofit media organization InvestigateWest on October 12, 2024, revealed something startling about Idaho: “Unlike most states,” the report said, there is no regulatory oversight of local jails—meaning “[s]heriffs and jail commanders set their own standards.” …
Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Peters Fights Dismissal from BOP, Guards Lose Bonus Pay by The election of Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) has thrown the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) into turmoil. As PLN reported, former Director Collette Peters resigned just hours after the inauguration on January 20, 2025. [See: PLN, Feb. 2025, p.10.] …
DOJ Finds “Horrific and Inhumane” Conditions in Georgia Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke "People are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed,” lockups where “[i]nmates are maimed, tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not-so-benign neglect.” So began …
U.S. Justice Department Investigating Tennessee CoreCivic Prison After Mother of Murdered Prisoner Reaches Settlement by Pointing to “reports of staffing shortages, physical and sexual assaults, murders and a 188% turnover rate among prison guards just last year,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 20, 2024, that …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Staffing
Could the Prison Staffing Crisis Lead to More Oversight? by Much has been reported about the prison staffing crisis in the United States. But by the end of 2024, a curious trend was emerging: In 16 states that year, lawmakers considered 31 correctional oversight bills. In Washington, which already had …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Ohio Guard Killed by Prisoner in Christmas Day Attack by On December 25, 2024, Ohio prisoner Rashawn Cannon, 27, was accused of killing Ross Correctional Institution guard Andrew Lansing, 62. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), said that Cannon veered off from a group …
Eleventh Circuit Tells BOP Prisoner in Georgia: Bivens Is On “Endangered Species List” by On October 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit told a federal prisoner in Georgia that he could not hold the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) liable for damages caused by …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
20 South Carolina Prisoners Sentenced So Far for Deadly 2018 Riot by Two South Carolina prisoners were sentenced on December 10, 2024, for their roles in a riot that killed seven fellow prisoners and injured 20 more. They were the most recent of 20 prisoners sentenced so far for convictions …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Washington DOC Physician Assistant Surrenders Medical License in Wake of Malpractice Allegations by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford On July 18, 2024, a physician assistant employed by the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) complied with an order to surrender his medical license by the state’s medical commission, which accused him …
Oregon DOC Investigation Puts Top Medical Officials on Leave by A mid an investigation into complaints about prisoner medical care, the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) put two top healthcare officials on leave on December 5, 2024. Assistant Director of Health Services Joe Bugher and Chief of Medicine Dr. Warren …
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