Lawsuit Targets Orleans Magistrate Judge Cantrell’s Unjust Bond Practice
Federal class action alleges conflict of interest and constitutional rights violations as Judge uses bail to bolster Court’s budgetNEW ORLEANS – A federal class action lawsuit alleges Orleans...
View ArticleLouisiana State Prison Obstructs Investigation into Disability Abuse...
LOUISIANA - A federal lawsuit argues that the Louisiana Department of Corrections and David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC) have deliberately impeded an investigation into allegations of serious...
View ArticleLawsuit Brought For Illegal Detention
Despite completion of sentences, plaintiffs remained in custody for five additional months NEW ORLEANS – The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center of New Orleans has filed a lawsuit on behalf...
View ArticleMacArthur Justice Center Sues Private Prison for Withholding Information
New Orleans – The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center of New Orleans has filed a lawsuit against Allen Correctional Center, which is run by a private contractor for the Louisiana Department...
View ArticleSecond Lawsuit Brought This Month For Illegal Detention
Despite judges’ orders, individuals detained for months past release datesNEW ORLEANS – The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center of New Orleans has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three...
View ArticleSettlement Reached in Favor of Prisoner Punished for Speaking to the Press
William Kissinger was sent to solitary for discussing prison conditionsNEW ORLEANS – A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought on behalf of William Kissinger, a prisoner at Louisiana...
View ArticleMacArthur Justice Center Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Gretna, Louisiana...
City-Appointed Court Officials Exploit Fees, Fines from Traffic Violations and Misdemeanors to Generate 13.5% of Gretna General FundThe Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center has filed a federal...
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...
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