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Brief • November 2, 2025
Wilson v. Dixon, FL, Second Declaration of Stefano Schiavon, Conditions of Confinement, 2025 Case 1:24-cv-24253-KMW Document 82-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 11/02/2025 Page 1 of 92 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 1:24-cv-24253 DWAYNE WILSON, TYRONE HARRIS, and GARY WHEELER, individually and on behalf …
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 …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Illinois Shutters Decrepit Prison by As of September 30, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) had transferred most of the 558 prisoners held at Stateville Correctional Center a month before. The move followed a preliminary injunction (PI) issued by the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois on …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
South Carolina Pays $200,000 to Jail Detainees Exposed to Toxic Fumes by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2023, the South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund paid $8,700 to each of 23 former detainees at Berkeley County’s Hill-Finklea Detention Center (HFDC)—a total of $200,100—to settle claims they were exposed to …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Record Temperatures in Southern Prisons Called Cruel and Unusual Punishment by On the last day of July 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Earth had just endured the hottest three-week period ever recorded, noting that “for vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe—it is a cruel …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Filed under: Ventilation
BOP Evacuates Federal Prison in Florida After Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning by Around 2:45 a.m. on July 16, 2023, a suspected carbon monoxide (CO) leak led to evacuation of staff and over 450 prisoners from the minimum-security satellite camp at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Coleman, Florida. Five people …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
In Suit Over Moldy Cells Causing Fungal Infection, Illinois Warden Denied Summary Judgment Wins Anyway by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 19, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Illinois denied a state prison warden’s motion for summary judgment in a federal civil rights lawsuit over …
Freeman v. Lashbrook, IL, Settlement, Deliberate Indifference, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 18-CV-2144-SMY 18-2144 Opp osing Counsel : Freeman, Geoffrey #N40858 v. Lashbrook, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Filed Case Name Defendants: Date Served Received 2/8/19 Status closed 2/15/ 19 Class Act ion □ On Appeal D …
McFadden v. Pfister, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement, 2021 Information Sheet for Case Number Case# Official Case# 18-1000 18-CV-1000 Opposing Counsel: Institutions: McFadden, LaRoyce #Y19804 v. Johnson, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Defendants: Received Filed Case Name 2/27/19 Date Served 3/1/19 Status closed Class Action D On Appeal C Spears D …
Freeman v. Lashbrook, IL, Complaint, Deliberate Indifference, 2020 Case 3:18-cv-02144-RJD *SEALED* Document 106 Filed 11/04/20 Page 1 of 20 Page ID #803 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS GEOFFREY W. FREEMAN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) JURY TRIAL DEMANDED vs. JACQUELlNE LASHBROOK, KEVIN REICHERT, JOSHUA …
Anderson v. Pfister, IL, Settlement, Conditions of Confinement, 2020 Information Sheet for Case Number Official Case# Case# 18-627 18-CV-627 Anderson, Leroy #N34141 v. Pfister, et al. IDOC# Plaintiffs: Filed Received 06/1/18 1/26/18 Case Name Defendants: Date Served Status closed Class Action On Appeal Spears Opposing Counsel: Institutions: Pro Se Issues: …
“It Smelled Like Death”: Reports of Mold Contamination in Prisons and Jails by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas “There was big, dark, gray, blackish mildew around the air vent and that’s where the air was coming from … it smelled like death.” – Candie Hailey, Rikers Island pre-trial detainee Over the …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Litigation Surrounding Radon Exposure at Connecticut Prison Moves Forward by Panagioti Tsolkas by Panagioti Tsolkas “We’re talking about levels in some places that are equivalent to smoking 2½ packs of cigarettes a day,” said Lori A. Welch-Rubin, one of the attorneys who filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners …
Daughter of Texas Prisoner Who Died from Asthma Attack Receives Settlement by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis C.P., the minor daughter of a Texas prisoner who died after suffering an asthma attack while in prison, agreed to a settlement with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and a prison …
$95,000 Settlement in Suit Over Idaho Jail Prisoner's Death by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2016, a federal civil rights lawsuit against Canyon County, Idaho, over the death of a county jail prisoner due to denial of medical care was settled for $95,000. Alfred Girrard Young, 46, was …
Anderson v. Pfister, IL, Merit Review, Conditions of Confinement 2018 Case: 1:18-cv-00627 Document#: 10 Filed: 06/01/18 Page 1 of 4 PagelD #:54 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LeRoy Anderson (N-34141) Plaintiff. V. Randy Pfister. et al.. Defendants. ) ) ) ) …
McFadden v. Pfister, IL, Merit Review, Conditions of Confinement, 2018 Case: l :18-cv-01000 Document#: 5 Filed: 03/09/18 Page 1 of 3 PagelD #:19 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LAROYCE MCFADDEN (#Y-19804), PLAINTIFF, V. TROY JOHNSON, ET AL., DEFENDANTS. ) ) ) …
Article • September 11, 2017
"No Toilet, No Ventilation": Prisoners Describe Horrific Conditions in Harvey's Flood Zone by Candice Bernd by Candice Bernd, Truthout This story is the sixth piece in "America's Toxic Prisons," an investigative, collaborative series between Truthout and Earth Island Journal. This series dives deeply into the intersection between mass incarceration and …
Michigan’s Wayne County Jails Plagued with Inhumane Conditions by The jails in Michigan’s Wayne County are “inhumane for everybody,” according to one law enforcement official. The outmoded and dangerous jails were supposed to be replaced, but cost overruns at a new state-of-the-art facility forced the county to discontinue the project. …
Mold-infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners by by Spencer Woodman, The Intercept During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a mold-covered air duct. The purpose of the vent was, of course, to …
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