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May 15, 2020
State Supreme Court Allows Fast Appeal of State Court Lawsuit Seeking to Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19
HARTFORD, Conn. – The Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court today granted an application to allow incarcerated people to directly appeal the dismissal of a lawsuit seeki...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Smart Justice
Apr 24, 2020
DC Halfway House Lawsuit Results in Successful Emergency Release of Prisoners
Bureau of Prisons Expects Majority of Hope Village Prisoners to be Placed in Home Confinement
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Apr 22, 2020
New Model Shows COVID-19 Death Toll is 100,000 Higher Than Current Projections
Failure to reduce jail population is the Achilles heel for the efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 21, 2020
Civil Rights Lawyers File Complaint Against State Officials Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Arkansas State Prisons
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, Disability Rights Arkansas, the American Civil Liberties Un...
Issue Areas:
Prisoners' Rights
Smart Justice
Apr 21, 2020
ACLU of Connecticut Files Federal Emergency Lawsuit to Force Governor, Commissioner of Correction to Protect Incarcerated People from COVID-19
HARTFORD, Conn. – The ACLU of Connecticut filed a federal class action lawsuit late last night on behalf of all people incarcerated in Connecticut prisons and jails, seeking emer...
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
Prisoners' Rights
Apr 16, 2020
ACLU of Michigan Urges Governor Gretchen Whitmer to Release Vulnerable People from Prisons to Stop the Spread of COVID-19
DETROIT, Mich. — Following a new Detroit Free Press analysis that the COVID-19 infection rate at the Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson exceeds that of jails in New York an...
Issue Areas:
Smart Justice
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