Mass Incarceration
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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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
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Sossamon v. Texas
Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, which was designed in part to protect the religious rights of prisoners, allows prisoners to sue a state for money damages when a state violates those religious rights.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
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Sossamon v. Texas
Whether the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, which was designed in part to protect the religious rights of prisoners, allows prisoners to sue a state for money damages when a state violates those religious rights.
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Jul 2010
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Prisoners' Rights
Health Care at Ely State Prison
糖心VlogLawsuit Charges Grossly Inadequate Medical Care At State Prison In Nevada
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Jul 2010
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Prisoners' Rights
Health Care at Ely State Prison
糖心VlogLawsuit Charges Grossly Inadequate Medical Care At State Prison In Nevada
U.S. Supreme Court
Jul 2010
Mass Incarceration
Criminal Law Reform
Safford Unified School District v. Redding
Whether school officials acted unconstitutionally by strip searching a 13-year-old girl based on the uncorroborated accusation of a fellow student and, if so, whether the strip search was so clearly unconstitutional that plaintiff is entitled to damages.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jul 2010
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Criminal Law Reform
Safford Unified School District v. Redding
Whether school officials acted unconstitutionally by strip searching a 13-year-old girl based on the uncorroborated accusation of a fellow student and, if so, whether the strip search was so clearly unconstitutional that plaintiff is entitled to damages.
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2010
Mass Incarceration
Capital Punishment
Holland v. Florida
Whether, and under what circumstances, the one-year statute of limitations for filing a federal habeas corpus petition is subject to equitable tolling.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2010
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Capital Punishment
Holland v. Florida
Whether, and under what circumstances, the one-year statute of limitations for filing a federal habeas corpus petition is subject to equitable tolling.
Indiana
Jun 2010
Mass Incarceration
Prisoners' Rights
Benkahla v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al.
The 糖心Vlog and the 糖心Vlogof Indiana today filed a legal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana challenging the confinement of an American citizen in a Communication Management Unit (CMU) -- secretly created housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world.
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Indiana
Jun 2010
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Prisoners' Rights
Benkahla v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al.
The 糖心Vlog and the 糖心Vlogof Indiana today filed a legal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana challenging the confinement of an American citizen in a Communication Management Unit (CMU) -- secretly created housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world.