by Jacob Barrett
On April 18, 2022, after finding the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “employed tactics similar to the game of Plinko on The Price is Right,” an exasperated federal judge demanded the agency produce a timeline for compliance with an earlier Preliminary Injunction (PI) ordering Gender Confirming ...
by Jacob Barrett
On September 9, 2022, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) levied an $84,000 fine against the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for safety violations at a state prison that was the epicenter of the state’s largest tuberculosis outbreak in 20 years.
L&I issued the fine ...
by Jacob Barrett
On April 19, 2022, Georgia’s DeKalb County Jail (DCJ) and county Sheriff Melody M. Maddox filed a stipulation in a civil suit agreeing to provide religious meals for Muslim prisoners observing daylight fasts during Ramadan.
The suit was brought by Norman Simmonds, who was detained at DCJ ...
by Jacob Barrett
On February 2, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear her appeal, a transgender Georgia prisoner was thwarted in her attempt to hold state prison officials liable for assaults she suffered at three state prisons for men. See: Cox ...
by Jacob Barrett
In a 4-to-3 decision handed down on March 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held an employer did not unlawfully discriminate against a former state prisoner by rescinding a job offer based on his domestic violence convictions.
In its ruling, the Court held that the state ...
by Jacob Barrett
Second-round bidding closed on August 4, 2022, for the 390-acre site of the now-shuttered Mill Creek Correctional Institution (MCCI) owned by the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC). But a 98-year-old grandson of the land’s former owner claims it holds Native American grave sites, which would severely complicate ...
by Jacob Barrett
On February 2, 2022, the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon held that a lower court erred in denying a state prisoner’s petition for change of legal name or sex just because she was incarcerated.
The prisoner, Andrew “April” Jondle, is a transgender woman currently ...
by Jacob Barrett
On August 2, 2022, the federal Department of Justice introduced its pick to helm the nation’s Bureau of Prison (BOP): Collette Peters, the director of Oregon’s Department of Corrections (DOC) since 2012. She fills a slot vacated by retiring BOP Director Michael Carvajal, a career agency employee—he ...
by Jacob Barrett
One official in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) has been fired and another has resigned following separate investigations into allegations of misconduct.
On July 29, 2022, then-DOC Director Colette Peters fired Assistant Director Nathaline Frener, 52, in a termination letter that said she wished to take ...
by Jacob Barrett
On January 11, 2022, the California Court of Appeals rejected the plea of a state prisoner who argued he was charged $3,210 in fines and fees without considering his ability to pay, saying his $12 monthly prison wage will be sufficient to eventually satisfy the debt.
In ...
