In 2018, the 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit highlighting widespread violations of detained noncitizens鈥� rightful access to counsel聽in multiple civil immigration prisons in the Southeast. The...
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More than a century ago, Mississippi adopted a state constitution that was specifically intended to prevent formerly enslaved people and their descendants from gaining political influence, in part by blocking their access to the ballot box. A provision of that 1890 constitution 鈥� a lifetime...
Louisiana officials denied poor people their constitutional right to counsel by failing to establish an effective statewide public defense system. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed suit in state court fix the broken system.
In 2016, a funding crisis forced as many as 33 out of 42 public...
After the federal government failed to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would shed light on controversial 鈥� and potentially unconstitutional 鈥� immigration raids in 2016 that took more than 100 women and children from their homes and placed them in a Texas detention...
A minor at the Sumter Correctional Institution in Florida was brutally beaten and raped as part of a prison initiation ritual that was ignored by a guard. The 澳彩开奖 and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the youth to end the culture of brutality at the prison, which houses...
State employees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as 鈥淎ngola,鈥� routinely and systemically failed to properly assess, diagnose and treat the medical problems of people who are incarcerated at the largest prison in the state, which for years has had the world鈥檚 highest rate of...
The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) systemically puts the health and lives of prisoners at risk by ignoring their medical and mental health needs and discriminating against prisoners with disabilities 鈥� violations of federal law by a prison system that has one of the highest mortality rates in the country. The 澳彩开奖 and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed suit to end the deplorable conditions in Alabama prisons.
Prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility in
When Alabama legislators revised the state鈥檚 anti-immigrant law in 2012, they passed a law requiring the state to maintain an online list of immigrants who are detained by law enforcement, who appear in court for any violation of state law, and who unable to prove they are not 鈥渦nlawfully present aliens.鈥� It provided no means for people to be removed from this 鈥渂lack list鈥� if the listing is an error or if their immigration status changes. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to stop this state-sanctioned 鈥渂lacklisting鈥� of immigrants, which could encourage harassment and violence.
Vermilion Parish (La.) Sheriff Michael Couvillon refused to turn over public records related to the detention of individuals suspected of being undocumented. The 澳彩开奖 requested the records under the Louisiana Public Records Act to determine if the sheriff鈥檚 office was holding immigrants in jail for prolonged periods of time due to unconstitutional racial profiling.
