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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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Thompson v. Ricci, et al.
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New Jersey
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Thompson v. Ricci, et al.
U.S. Supreme Court
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Nelson v. Norris
The case of an Arkansas woman who was shackled to her hospital bed while in labor in 2003.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Nelson v. Norris
The case of an Arkansas woman who was shackled to her hospital bed while in labor in 2003.
U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Davis, et al. v. Canyon County, Idaho, et al.
Six plaintiffs file this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of all other persons incarcerated, now or in the future, in the Canyon County Jail in Caldwell, Idaho.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Davis, et al. v. Canyon County, Idaho, et al.
Six plaintiffs file this action on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of all other persons incarcerated, now or in the future, in the Canyon County Jail in Caldwell, Idaho.
U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Aho v. State of Florida
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U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 2009
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Aho v. State of Florida
U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2009
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D.G. v. De Soto County School District
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U.S. Supreme Court
Oct 2009
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