Sample PLN Issues PLN Cover Stories New Report on Privatized Prison Food Shines a Light on Aramark’s Harmful Practices by Daniel A. Rosen My most vivid memory of Aramark’s food service inside jails and prisons came early on in my incarceration: I watched a man at the D.C. Jail dig into the entrée on his evening meal tray and uncover half a dead mouse. Those of us … He Died in a Florida Jail. The Company in Charge Should Have Sent Him to the Hospital, Experts Say. by Nichole Manna For 30 minutes, Brian Tracey lay naked and unable to breathe on the floor of the medical ward at the St. Johns County Detention Center, a low-roofed building south of Jacksonville, Florida. It was Dec. 15, 2023, the day Tracey was supposed to be released … CoreCivic’s Long Record of Abuse and Neglect in Tennessee Brentwood, Tennessee-based CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center (TTCC), the state’s largest prison, and three other Tennessee prisons for the state Department of Corrections (DOC). But despite the company’s large footprint in Tennessee, its legacy is dismal at best …

The Systematic Terror of Rankin County’s “Goon Squad” by Anthony Accurso For at least twenty years, the Sheriff’s Office in Rankin County, Mississippi has used coordinated violence against the citizens of the county—both inside and out of the county jail—to terrorize members of the public, particularly anyone suspected of being involved in illegal drugs. Reporting by … Alabama’s Non-Solution to the Crisis Overtaking Its Prisons by Douglas Ankney "I wanted to tell you; your son was beaten to death by an officer. That was a murder.” Sondra Ray received that message from an unidentified Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) official after receiving a false accounting of the death of her son Steven … Make Sure To Listen To: N ew Execution Method in Alabama Compared to 'Tying Bag Over Their Head' Human Rights activist and the editor and publisher of Prison Legal News Paul Wright discusses the prevalence of solitary confinement and other forms of torture in the US, what it means to ban the practice in New York City, how solitary confinement policies are being rolled back or hidden in plain sight in US prisons, the novel lengths Alabama is going to to execute one man, and the history of criminal justice “reform” in the US. Visit PLN's Book Store!