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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Florida
Nov 2010
Mass Incarceration
Racial Justice
Letters Regarding Open Access To Florida State Foreclosure Court Proceedings
November 17, 2010
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Florida
Nov 2010
Mass Incarceration
Racial Justice
Letters Regarding Open Access To Florida State Foreclosure Court Proceedings
November 17, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2010
Mass Incarceration
+2 Issues
Cullen v. Pinholster
Whether the federal courts properly granted habeas corpus relief to the death row inmate in this case after concluding that the state courts had unreasonably rejected his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2010
Mass Incarceration
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Cullen v. Pinholster
Whether the federal courts properly granted habeas corpus relief to the death row inmate in this case after concluding that the state courts had unreasonably rejected his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
Arizona
Sep 2010
Mass Incarceration
Immigrants' Rights
Chamber of Commerce of the United States et al. v. Candelaria
This is the first case to reach the Supreme Court that raises the constitutionality of the growing number of state and local anti-immigrant laws that have been enacted in recent years. The ACLU represents certain petitioners in the case.
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Arizona
Sep 2010
Mass Incarceration
Immigrants' Rights
Chamber of Commerce of the United States et al. v. Candelaria
This is the first case to reach the Supreme Court that raises the constitutionality of the growing number of state and local anti-immigrant laws that have been enacted in recent years. The ACLU represents certain petitioners in the case.
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
Mass Incarceration
Racial Justice
B.H. v. City of New York
In 1998, the City of New York transferred the authority to oversee public school safety from the Board of Education to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
Mass Incarceration
Racial Justice
B.H. v. City of New York
In 1998, the City of New York transferred the authority to oversee public school safety from the Board of Education to the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
Mass Incarceration
+2 Issues
Connick v. Thompson
Whether someone who spent 14 years on death row before his murder conviction was overturned because the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence can recover damages from the prosecutor's office on a theory that it failed to train its staff regarding their constitutional obligations.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Aug 2010
Mass Incarceration
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Connick v. Thompson
Whether someone who spent 14 years on death row before his murder conviction was overturned because the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence can recover damages from the prosecutor's office on a theory that it failed to train its staff regarding their constitutional obligations.