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Letter from OPP Attorney John F. Weeks, II to ACLU Attorney Eric Balaban (11/30/2005)
Letter from OPP Attorney John F. Weeks, II to ACLU Attorney Eric Balaban

Letter from Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman to New Orleans City Council (11/10/2005)
Letter from Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman to New Orleans City Council

Orleans Parish Prison Memorandum of Law (11/10/2005)

Letter Regarding the Re-Opening of the Orleans Parish Prison (10/21/2005)
The city-owned Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) was engulfed by Hurricane Katrina, abandoned by correctional staff, and then haphazardly evacuated in the five days after the storm struck. Since the evacuation, the 6500 prisoners previously confined at OPP have been housed in a number of other prisons and makeshift shelters. However, at least some of these prisoners may soon be returning to OPP.

Motion for TRO in Hamilton v. Morial (10/06/2005)

OPP Hurricane/Flood Contingency Plan and Handwritten Notation by OPP Attorney Allen Usry (09/21/2005)
OPP Hurricane/Flood Contingency Plan and Handwritten Notation by OPP Attorney Allen Usry

Presley v. Epps - Complaint (06/22/2005)
In June, 2005, we filed suit challenging conditions where 1,000 maximum security inmates are held in Unit 32 of Mississippi’s Parchman Prison. This suit followed our challenge to conditions on Death Row in the same prison system. In January 2006, the state agreed to a consent decree admitting that conditions in Unit 32 violate the Eighth Amendment. Since then, significant improvements have been made in environmental conditions, and in an unusual step, prison officials have given NPP attorneys unrestricted access to the prison system’s internal electronic records on prison classification, use of force, discipline, and medical and mental health care.

Complaint in Mast v. Donahue (02/03/2005)

Brief of Plaintiff-Appellee in Johnson v. Johnson (09/09/2004)

ACLU Response to Motion to Terminate Consent Decree in Duvall, et al. v. Glendening, et al. (08/25/2004)

Motion in Hamiliton, et al. v. Morial, et al. (06/08/2004)

Complaints Filed by Roderick Johnson (02/26/2004)

Roderick Johnson's Offender Protection Investigation Forms (02/26/2004)

Brief in Hadix v. Johnson (02/05/2004)

ACLU Brief in Russell, et al. v. Johnson, et al. (11/05/2003)

ACLU Complaint in Nathan Essary v. Michael Chaney, et al. (10/08/2002)

ACLU Complaint in Johnson v. Johnson (04/18/2002)
Legal complaint filed on behalf of Roderick Johnson, a gay prisoner repeatedly raped by Texas prison gangs and denied protection by prison officials.

Flores v. Meese - Stipulated Settlement Agreement (01/17/1997)