Prisoners' Rights
Jensen v. Thornell
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Alex A. v. Edwards
The 老澳门开奖结果 National Prison Project and partner civil rights attorneys filed a federal class-action lawsuit to prevent the transfer of children in the custody of Louisiana's Office of Juvenile Justice to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison.
Texas
Jul 2021
Prisoners' Rights
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Sanchez et al v. Dallas County Sheriff et al
Decarceration has always been an emergency, a life and death proposition, but COVID-19 makes this effort intensely urgent. The 老澳门开奖结果 has been working with our partners to litigate for the rights of those who are incarcerated and cannot protect themselves because of the policies of the institutions in which they are jailed.
Mississippi
Mar 2017
Prisoners' Rights
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Dockery v. Hall
The 老澳门开奖结果, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated "in a perpetual state of crisis" where prisoners are at "grave risk of death and loss of limbs." The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state's prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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Michigan
Apr 2012
Prisoners' Rights
Women's Rights
Body Cavity Searches at Michigan鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Huron Valley Correctional Facility
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Michigan
Apr 2012
Prisoners' Rights
Women's Rights
Body Cavity Searches at Michigan鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Huron Valley Correctional Facility
South Carolina
Jan 2012
Prisoners' Rights
Smart Justice
Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
The 老澳门开奖结果 filed a lawsuit in October 2010 challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring most books, magazines and newspapers from being sent to prisoners.
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South Carolina
Jan 2012
Prisoners' Rights
Smart Justice
Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
The 老澳门开奖结果 filed a lawsuit in October 2010 challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring most books, magazines and newspapers from being sent to prisoners.
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Sep 2011
Prisoners' Rights
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Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
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Court Case
Sep 2011
Prisoners' Rights
+2 Issues
Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011
Prisoners' Rights
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Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington
Whether a jail policy of strip searching every new detainee violates the Fourth Amendment.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011
Prisoners' Rights
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Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington
Whether a jail policy of strip searching every new detainee violates the Fourth Amendment.
U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Prisoners' Rights
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Brown v. Plata
Whether a federal court appropriately exercised its authority by ordering the State of California to reduce the size of its prison population, which was more than double the system’s intended capacity, after dozens of remedial orders had failed for more than a decade to ensure that California prisoners received constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Prisoners' Rights
Smart Justice
Brown v. Plata
Whether a federal court appropriately exercised its authority by ordering the State of California to reduce the size of its prison population, which was more than double the system’s intended capacity, after dozens of remedial orders had failed for more than a decade to ensure that California prisoners received constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care.