Federal Court Asked to Strip Sheriff Marlin Gusman of Authority Over Orleans...
NEW ORLEANS -- Citing the grave danger imposed on men, women and children incarcerated in Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), attorneys for the prisoners and the United States Department of Justice have asked...
View ArticleBehind Bars for 10 Months and Without Access to Lawyers, Five Defendants Ask...
NEW ORLEANS -- Attorneys with the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center on Thursday asked the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal to order the release of five men and women arrested in...
View ArticleNew Independent Jail Compliance Director to have final authority over all...
NEW ORLEANS – On Tuesday, the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, which represents the people in the Orleans Parish jail consent decree litigation Jones v. Gusman, issued the following...
View ArticleLawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Conflict of Interest in Ascension Parish...
Judge No Longer Controls Expense Fund Made up of “Conviction Fees”BATON ROUGE, La. – In response to passage of Act 612 by the Legislature and its signing into law by Governor Edwards in June, the...
View ArticleFederal Court Clears Path for Disclosure of Missouri Lethal Injection Methods
Condemned prisoners in Mississippi seek the information from Missouri, Georgia and TexasNEW ORLEANS – U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough of the Western District of Missouri has denied a motion filed...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Orders Disclosure of Missouri’s Lethal Injection Methods
A federal appeals court has refused to overrule U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough’s decision ordering the Missouri Department of Corrections (MO-DOC) to disclose information about Missouri’s use of...
View ArticleDepartment of Health Agrees to End Lengthy Waitlist for Admission of...
Individuals found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity were routinely denied access to mental health treatment and the opportunity to stand trialBATON ROUGE, La. – Under terms...
View ArticleLawsuit: Louisiana State Police Use Excessive Force and Make Racially Biased...
NEW ORLEANS – The wrongful arrest, unjustified use of force and detention of an Indiana teenager has resulted in a lawsuit alleging that aggressive, unjustified harassment of African-Americans is a...
View ArticleLawsuit: Louisiana State Police harass, use excessive force against black...
The Louisiana State Police routinely harass and use excessive force against black people in the French Quarter, a civil rights law firm alleged Friday in a lawsuit, citing what it called the...
View ArticleDeath penalty stalls in Mississippi
JACKSON - With sprawling litigation over Mississippi’s use of execution drugs now scheduled to stretch into 2017, the state could go five years without executing a death row inmate.. . . .That halt is...
View ArticleCoroner: 15-year-old in Orleans jail died of suicide; lawyer says he had been...
Preliminary autopsy results show that a 15-year-old died in the Orleans Parish jail Monday night by hanging himself, the Orleans Parish coroner said Wednesday.Read full article HERE »
View ArticleMississippi Supreme Court Upholds the Right of Condemned Men and Women to...
JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Death Row prisoner to seek a state court order prohibiting a torturous method of execution.In Crawford v. Fisher, the...
View ArticleLouisiana Prison Officials Sued for Retaliating Against Whistleblower
After communicating with journalist, prisoner was banished to “the Dungeon” BATON ROUGE – A federal lawsuit has been filed against filed against Louisiana prison officials who retaliated against a...
View ArticleMacArthur Files Suit Against Illegal Jail Time
NEW ORLEANS – After moving New Orleans prisoners hundreds of miles away to a jail in East Carroll Parish, state and local officials are now failing to release men who have completed their sentences and...
View ArticleMen Freed After MacArthur Justice Center Files Lawsuits Over Illegal Jail Time
More Prisoners Overdue for ReleaseNEW ORLEANS -- One day after litigation was filed to secure their freedom, prisoners Jessie Crittindon and Eddie Copelin have been released by the Louisiana Department...
View ArticleKill Now, Think Later: MDOC has not studied any of the alternative methods of...
NEW ORLEANS – The civil rights law firm that represents Mississippi death-sentenced prisoners in litigation against the lethal injection drugs chosen by the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC)...
View ArticleLawsuit Alleges State Judges in Bossier Parish Routinely Violate...
SHREVEPORT, La. – A federal class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of impoverished people charged with minor crimes in Bossier Parish, where orders from the 26th Judicial District Court result...
View ArticleBaton Rouge Protesters File Lawsuit Alleging Baton Rouge Law Enforcement...
BATON ROUGE – Soon after peaceful demonstrations brought national attention to brutal and racially discriminatory policing by Baton Rouge area law enforcement, local government leaders and law...
View ArticleOrleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s Controversial Subpoenas Prompt...
NEW ORLEANS – A lawsuit was filed Friday against Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro in light of his office’s controversial practice of gathering evidence using subpoenas that do not have the...
View ArticleFederal Lawsuit Seeks Order Prohibiting Lafayette Parish Officials from...
LAFAYETTE, La. – A federal class action lawsuit alleges that officials of the 15th Judicial District Court and Sheriff’s Office in Lafayette routinely violate the constitutional rights of impoverished...
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