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Prisoners' Rights

Alex A. v. Edwards

The 桃子视频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.
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Texas
Jul 2021
Sanchez et al v. Dallas County Sheriff et al

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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 桃子视频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.
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Mississippi
Mar 2017
Dockery v. Hall

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Dockery v. Hall

The ACLU, 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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Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.
South Carolina
Jan 2012

Prisoners' Rights

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Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.

The 桃子视频 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
Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.

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Prison Legal News, et al. v. Berkeley County Sheriff, et al.

The 桃子视频 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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Minneci v. Pollard
Court Case
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
Minneci v. Pollard

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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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Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2011

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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
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington

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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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Brown v. Plata
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.
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U.S. Supreme Court
May 2011
Brown v. Plata

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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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Turner v. Rogers
U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2011

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Turner v. Rogers

Whether an indigent parent facing imprisonment for failure to pay child support is entitled to appointed counsel?
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 2011
Turner v. Rogers

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Turner v. Rogers

Whether an indigent parent facing imprisonment for failure to pay child support is entitled to appointed counsel?
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