Prison Legal News

Prison Legal News (PLN), an initiative by the Human Rights Defense Center, is a monthly magazine that spans 72 pages and focuses on the rights of prisoners. This independent publication delivers insightful reviews and analyses of court decisions and news related to the criminal justice system. With a primary focus on U.S. federal and state prison matters, PLN also touches on some international topics. The magazine aims to equip prisoners and other interested parties with knowledge about a wide array of criminal justice issues, particularly those concerning the safeguarding and enforcement of prisoners' rights. Key topics covered include prison labor, the private prison sector, healthcare for inmates—both medical and mental—misconduct by correctional staff, legal settlements involving detention facilities, juvenile justice, the death penalty, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), censorship in prisons, health issues such as HIV and hepatitis C, solitary confinement, and the racial and socio-economic inequalities present in the criminal justice system. There's a lot more to explore as well!

National

English

Magazine

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#658403

United States

#160431

Law and Government/Law Enforcement and Protective Services

#85

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Ninth and Tenth Circuits Find Bivens Extension Orders Not Immediately Appealable

1 month ago | prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Sam Rutherford The United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits recently held that the government may not immediately appeal a district court’s order extending to new factual scenarios that the exemption to governmental immunity first identified in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971).
Washington DOC Physician Assistant Surrenders Medical License in Wake of Malpractice Allegations

1 month ago | prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford

× You have 2 more free articles available this month. Subscribe today. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email 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 of multiple instances of incompetent and negligent care of prisoners who were his patients. Richard T.
Cuyahoga County Judges Vowed to Reform the Bail System. Here’s What Happened.

1 month ago | prisonlegalnews.org | Rachel Dissell |Ilica Mahajan

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email Court officials informally changed their bail-setting practices for felony cases. Now, fewer people have to pay to get out of jail, a Marshall Project analysis shows. n recent years, the Cuyahoga County court system has drastically cut its use of cash bail. That means fewer people sit in jail while awaiting trial.
From the Editor | Prison Legal News

1 month ago | prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul Wright Since our inception in 1990 the Human Rights Defense Center has focused on the financial exploitation of prisoners and their families in particular and poor people in general by the American criminal justice system.
New Mexico Corrections Department Continues Pattern of Abuse With Contract Medical Provider Wexford Health Sources

1 month ago | prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Sam Rutherford As PLN reported, the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has for many years outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide healthcare to those it confines, contracting the service from private, for-profit corporations.
Centurion’s $8 Million Track Record of Abuse and Neglect as New Mexico’s Correctional Medical Provider

Dec 9, 2024 | prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Sam Rutherford The New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) has long outsourced its constitutional obligation to provide prisoners adequate medical care to private, for-profit corporations with little incentive to do so.
From the Editor | Prison Legal News

Oct 10, 2024 | prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul WrightAmerica is going on its fourth decade of experimenting with private, for profit health services for prisoners. Regardless of the company and the location the outcomes are all the same: a lot of misery, pain and death imposed by a business model of ruthless capitalism where success is defined as getting as much money out of the government and then providing as little actual care as possible.
Bruce Johnson 1950-2024

Oct 10, 2024 | prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul WrightOn August 20, 2024, the free speech rights of all Americans suffered a devastating loss. Bruce Johnson, 74, was a long-time partner at the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. He spent his entire, nearly half century career as a lawyer there.
From the Editor | Prison Legal News

Aug 19, 2024 | prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email This month’s cover story on death and abuse at the Riverside County jails in California is an all-too-common account from American jails. With around 3,700 jails around the country, in every community, it is fair to say that this is the story of every jail.
From the Editor | Prison Legal News

Jul 3, 2024 | prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright

Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email From the Editor By Paul Wright One of the realities of covering and reporting on prison systems is that, not surprisingly, the bigger systems with more prisoners tend to generate more news, especially the bad news. Generally speaking, the dearth of news by and about smaller prison systems does not mean they are better run, less deadly, or less corrupt than their larger counterparts.