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28 Nov 2010, 7:15 pm
Did you know that at any given moment, up to 2.3 million citizens are confined in our prisons in the United States? [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 4:29 am
Keep in mind, in 2012 the Fifth Circuit expressly allowed prison heat litigation in Texas to go forward, reversing the ruling of the trial judge and inspiring several more, similar suits at other Texas units. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 5:39 am
Whitmire, though, that a majority of Texas voters likely would not choose to pay to cool prison units if you asked them, but so what? [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 3:57 am
The judge's ruling stemmed from a subsidiary claim in ongoing litigation over excessive heat in the un-air conditioned unit in Grimes County, just west of Huntsville. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm
For decades, environmental health problems have plagued communities across the United States. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:54 pm
Switzer, the United States Supreme Court decided that prisoners can sue under 42 U.S.C. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 3:32 pm
Our law firm keeps an index of litigation involving COVID. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 6:23 am
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, inmates cannot file a lawsuit unless their file an internal grievance at the correctional facility. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 1:18 pm
A United States fugitive who walked away from a South Dakota prison 16 years ago has been found living a secret family life on a Canadian aboriginal reserve where he was born. [read post]
20 Jan 2017, 7:18 am
There is no question that many of the prison systems in the United States are in need of money, and many inmates are housed in very old buildings that are falling apart. [read post]
15 May 2020, 1:26 pm
The US Supreme Court has declined to vacate a stay by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals of an injunction granted to Texas prison inmates from the Pack Unit, a geriatric prison unit, reported the New York Times. [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 2:33 pm
If TCRP has their way, that will be true in the federal courthouse as well as inside Texas prison cells.See a related column from Bob Ray Sanders at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram promoting the annual fan drive for indigent prisoners run by CURE, the Committee United for Rehabilitation of Errants. [read post]
16 Jan 2008, 9:37 pm
Here is how Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse describes itself:"The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is a collection of documents and information about civil rights cases in selected case categories across the United States. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 10:35 am
Earlier this year Grits had speculated which prison units might be targeted for closure if Texas incarceration levels continue to decline. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 10:06 am
Tollefson, it will confront yet another in a long line of complicated procedural questions created by the “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA).That provision generally precludes courts from conferring in forma pauperis status upon prisoner-plaintiffs “if the prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the… [read post]
22 Apr 2022, 10:09 am
After filing a brief in support of the prisoner (Michael Nance), the United States sought and was granted time at oral argument. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 12:08 pm
Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, who represented Guantanamo detainees themselves, and who collected stories covering life and the ensuing litigation at Guantanamo. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 11:18 am
Hardeman County, Tennessee et al – United States District Court – Western District of Tennessee – October 5. 2022) involves a claim against a prison. [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 9:06 pm
Morgan identifies two scenarios in which litigants have tested the waters to apply the integration mandate to prisons. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 1:57 pm
As Lindstrom reiterated, the principal distinction between those two positions goes to whether a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner suit counts as an immediate third strike only against future litigation (as the United States argued in its amicus brief), or also against an appeal of the third-strike dismissal itself (as Michigan argued). [read post]
