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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 …
Watchdog Calls Out D.C. for Dragging Feet on Construction of New Jail by Chuck Sharman A report issued by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA) on May 28, 2025, outlined the municipality’s “urgent need for a new jail.” The population of the existing lockup, spread over two adjacent buildings …
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
Alabama’s Oldest Prisoner Dies in Hospital by Floyd Lee Coleman, 106, passed away on May 19, 2025, at a hospital near the William Donaldson Correctional Facility, where he was a prisoner in Bessemer, Alabama. Coleman, who had spent more than forty-five years locked up, was the state’s oldest prisoner—and likely …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Long-Running Consent Decree Again Extended at Troubled Baltimore Jail by On October 18, 2024, the federal court for the District of Maryland granted a motion to modify a years-old consent decree in a decades-old class-action challenge to conditions at Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center (CBIC). As PLN reported, the …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
U.S. Pulls $1.5 Million in Funding from Maine DOC Over a Single Trans Prisoner by A dustup over trans athletes in high school sports between Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) and Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) spilled over into that state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) on April 8, 2025, when …
Second Circuit Revives Connecticut Prisoner’s Challenge To Conditions In Virginia Lockup Where He Was Transferred by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On October 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed dismissal of Connecticut prisoner’s complaint over an assault he suffered in a Virginia lockup where …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Totality of Conditions
Alaska’s Prison System: Dangerous, Deadly Yet Repeating Past Mistakes by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Alaska is a small state with enormous natural resources. The native people, who largely subsist off the land, enrich its culture. The beauty of its landscape draws millions of tourists annually. Yet behind …
CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   In a suit filed in Kansas state court on July 31, 2023, former detainee Joshua Braddy accused private prison profiteer CoreCivic of negligence that resulted in his stabbing at Leavenworth Detention Center …
$4 Million Settlement in Class Action Challenging Unconstitutional Conditions at West Virginia Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   West Virginia Division of Corrections (WVDC) officials agreed to pay $4 million on November 8, 2023, to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Southern Regional Jail …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Report Finds Current Path of Florida Prison System “Unsustainable” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) leaders have come before the state legislature repeatedly to warn that it is a system operating in crisis. In a presentation on November 15, 2023, by global consulting …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Watchdog Finds “Alarming Conditions” at BOP Women’s Lockup in Florida by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   When confronted with prisoner complaints, officials often produce glowing inspection reports and blame prisoners for destroying prison infrastructure. All too often, though, inept supervision is to blame for failure to maintain facilities. …
Idaho Continues To Cell “Dangerously Mentally Ill” Without Charges by On November 14, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) secured a budget recommendation from the state Permanent Building Fund advisory council for a new $25 million facility jointly operated by the state’s Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and its …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Federal Watchdog Finds BOP Staffing, Maintenance in Crisis by The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report in early May 2023, finding “four foundational, enterprise-wide challenges” confronting the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The first involves “weaknesses in the BOP’s internal audit function,” deficiencies …
Elmajzoub v. Davis, NV, Order, Conditions of Confinement, 2022 Case 3:19-cv-00196-MMD-CSD Document 99 Filed 11/23/22 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 5 *** 6 7 8 9 SAID ELMAJZOUB, v. Case No. 3:19-cv-00196-MMD-CSD Plaintiff, ORDER SCOTT DAVIS, et al., Defendants. 10 …
Agnew v. NY City Dept of Correction, NY, Complaint, Inadequate Health Care, 2021 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF THE BRONX Matter of JOSEPH AGNEW, ANTHONY GANG, TYRONE GREENE and KAMER REID, On behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Petitioners, For a judgment under …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Totality of Conditions
New York State Executive Order Re Declaration of Disaster Emergency Due to Conditions at Rikers Island Correctional Center 2021 No.5 EXECUTIVE ORDER Declaration of a Disaster Emergency in the Counties of the Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond and Queens Due to Conditions at Rikers Island Correctional Center WHEREAS, the Rikers …
Brief • December 3, 2020
Malam and v. Alhalmi, MI, order, medical expert inspection of Calhoun re COVID-19, 2020 Case 5:20-cv-10829-JEL-APP ECF No. 439, PageID.11434 Filed 12/03/20 Page 1 of 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION Janet Malam, Petitioner-Plaintiff, and Qaid Alhalmi, et al., Case No. 20-10829 Judith E. Levy …
Publication • December 1, 2020
Dept. of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics - Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2016-2017 - Statistical Tables, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2020, NCJ 252838 Connor Brooks and Kevin M. Scott, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians Anthony Whyde, former BJS …
Brief • November 5, 2020
Agard v. Walworth County, S.D., class action settlement, jail conditions, 2020 *all Defendants signatures must be notarized *Defendants must fully execute before dismissal is filed SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Rel ease ('·Agreement") is entered into between MEGAN MARIA AGARD, CHICO BAKER, ROBERT DESERSA, KARA JAN E …
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