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Hawai’i Settles Prison Mental Healthcare Class-Action With $100,000 in Attorney’s Fees and Expert Inspection That Produces Damning Report by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai’i granted dismissal on September 10, 2025, to a group of mentally ill state prisoners and pretrial detainees …
Mississippi DOC Retains Law Firm to Monitor VitalCore Contract by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Mississippi has had recurring problems from the private healthcare providers they have hired for their prisons. The problems accumulating with VitalCore Health Strategies, their current provider, have pushed the state into hiring a law firm …
Watchdog Report Finds More than 1,500 Waiting for Specialty Care at Connecticut Prisons by Wait times for prisoners in Connecticut who need to see a specialist for treatment can often extend for months. And as more prisoners linger without care, the backlog of patients only grows. As of mid-March 2026, …
At This Prison, Staffing Fluctuations Land Hardest on Lifers by Jeffrey Shockley by Jeffrey Shockley This article was originally published by Prison Journalism Project.   Located at the edge of rural western Pennsylvania, State Correctional Institution, Mercer, has long been considered one of the calmer prisons in the state system. …
Article • April 1, 2026 • from PLN April, 2026
Oklahoma County Officials Move to Dissolve Jail Trust Created for Oversight by On March 18, 2026, officials in Oklahoma County approved a motion to dissolve the jail trust that was placed in charge of administering the county jail in downtown Oklahoma City. Officially titled the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority, …
Five Prisoners in Georgia Injured in Fight, Two Months After Three Prisoners Were Killed by On March 23, 2026, five prisoners at Georgia’s Dooly State Prison in Unadilla required medical attention after a fight broke out at one of the prison’s dormitories. The Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) has so …
Houston Jail Renews $38 Million Contract to Outsource Detainees to Private Lockups by On March 19, 2026, commissioners in Harris County renewed a $38 million contract to send detainees out of Texas to private facilities controlled by companies like CoreCivic. For years, the Harris County Jail has outsourced detainees in …
Death of Washington Jail Standards Bill Risks Repeat of $2.5 Million Settlement That Closed One County’s Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Washington will remain one of just a dozen states without oversight or even enforceable standards for jails, after legislation to rectify the problem died on January 30, …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Washington Appellate Court Uses Personal Restraint Petitions Mooted by Prisoners’ Transfers to Order Remedial Measures at Troubled Juvenile Lockup by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On December 1, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals found that conditions at the state’s toughest juvenile prison violated state law. The case was remarkable …
Southern Poverty Law Center Report Shows Culture of Abuse at Florida Prison by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a new report describing a two-year investigation into the endemic culture of violence and abuse in Florida prisons, especially that of the Gulf Correctional …
Overcrowded State Mental Hospitals Lead to Longer Jail Time and Lack of Treatment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Prospective mental health patients struggle to find beds in psychiatric hospitals across the nation. Most mental health hospitals are short-staffed and turn away patients who battle to find treatment options. The …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Oklahoma County Jail Could Lay Off Half Its Staff Due to $5.4 Million Budget Gap by The Oklahoma County jail, a 13-story building located in downtown Oklahoma, is running out of money. Managed since 2020 by the Oklahoma County Justice Authority (OCJA), a jail trust, officials announced on February 19, …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Colorado Lawmakers Approve Prison Bed Funding, Despite DOC Understaffing by Just days after the Colorado legislature’s Joint Budget Committee (JBC) blocked a request from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for hundreds of new prison beds, lawmakers backtracked and voted to approve the additional beds in a 5-1 vote on …
Georgia Grand Jury Scolds Augusta Jail for Overcrowding Days Before Violent Detainee Assault by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 16, 2025, a grand jury in Georgia’s Richmond County reported that its inspection of the County jail revealed serious overcrowding, with mattresses on the floor pressing many cells into …
Texas State Jails Fail: Institutions Conceived as Safe Spots for Rehabilitation After Minor Drug Convictions Now Flooded With Drugs and Major Felons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 1995, the Texas Legislature created the state jail system as a place to send prisoners convicted of minor crimes in order …
Report Finds Persistent Overcrowding Drives Cascade of Problems at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Analyzing population data at the overcrowded Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta, a report from the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on January 27, 2026, found that …
Missouri Pays $212M for Prison Health Care, But Prisoner Deaths Aren’t a Performance Measure by Rudi Keller by Rudi Keller This article was originally published in the Missouri Independent.   Whether prisoners die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Alaska’s DOC Was $24 Million Over-Budget Last Year, Spent Most on Overtime by The state Department of Corrections (DOC) spent $24 million more than the Alaskan legislature approved last year, a historic high. According to Alaska Public Media, $20 million of the additional budget request was earmarked to pay overtime …
New York City Mayor Appoints Ex-Rikers Prisoner as Corrections Commissioner by On January 31, the recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) announced the appointment of Stanley Richards, who was locked up at Rikers Island multiple times in his youth, as the commissioner of the city’s Corrections Department …
Illinois DOC Has Failed to Improve Prison Health Care Seven Years After Order by Prisoners in Illinois can face decades of medical neglect, as in the case of Johnnie Flournoy, a 74-year-old prisoner locked up at the Pinckneyville Correction Center around five hours south of Chicago. Imprisoned since the early …
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