Lawmaker-corporate lobbyist deliberations and drafting of laws violate state’s Open Meeting Law, groups say November 15, 2022, Phoenix, AZ – Today, a coalition of grassroots organizations and legal...
Testimony Shows Officers Receive No Training on Racial Bias or Profiling November 14, 2022, Buffalo, NY – Litigation against the Buffalo Police Department (BPD) challenging the constitutionality of...
Lawyers Vow to Continue to Pursue Invalidation of Widespread Unconstitutional Use of Wanteds November 2, 2022, St. Louis, MO – Yesterday, the federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an...
Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination September 15, 2022, New York ‒ A national coalition of advocacy and legal groups today submitted a complaint...
Ashley Diamond Home at Last August 9, 2022 – Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who has twice sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for refusing to protect her from sexual assault...
In rare move after courts denied justice, BOP provides funds for six men who were abused, racially and religiously profiled July 5, New York – In a rare move, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has...
Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Respond to Monitor’s Latest Report May 6, 2022, New York– In response to a report just filed by Mylan Denerstein, the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk...
70 Percent of People Serving These Sentences for Felony Murder are Black April 13, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA ‒ Today, a lawsuit brought by people serving Death-By-Incarceration sentences, commonly known...
Georgia prison officials refuse to protect Ashley Diamond despite repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment February 23, 2022, Macon, GA– Ashley Diamond , a Black transgender woman held in a men...
Twenty years later, men who were religiously and racially profiled seek damages from warden who allowed abuse February 16, New York – A group of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men rounded up after 9/...
