Rights Behind Bars

Rights Behind Bars is hiring! See the attached posting for an attorney with serious litigation experience and chops to work on our trial and appellate dockets. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. static1.squarespace.com/static/629e677…

Thank you to Short Circuit for having our ED Sam Weiss on to talk about RBB's successes in representing incarcerated people, including in Taylor v. Riojas and Montanez v. Price.

BREAKING! 🚨 Proposed settlement agreement in our class action lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) & Dublin officials who perpetrated & allowed rampant staff sexual abuse, retaliation, & medical neglect in the now closed FCI Dublin women's prison: bit.ly/dpsc-settlement

“We all just feel so passionately that if Biden can pardon his son, he can definitely grant clemency to survivors of this heinous abuse by federal government employees,” said Drysdale. “To not do that is an absolute disgrace and embarrassment.” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

Rights Behind Bars is hiring! Join our team as a supervising attorney: rightsbehindbars.org/join-our-team

Yesterday, plaintiffs in VOTE v. LeBlanc filed a motion seeking to certify a class consisting of thousands of incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are subject to forced labor on the prison’s “Farm Line.” promiseofjustice.org/news/press-rel… @FIPVOTENOLA @RightsBehind #EndPlantationPrisons

"It is forced labor. It is slavery. There’s no real choice.” @brycecovert @BW @FIPVOTENOLA @rightsbehind @WorthRises @Abolitionnation buff.ly/3WObdr8

⚖️ PJI @RightsBehind, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, @FIPVOTENOLA and 8 men who are incarcerated at Angola have asked for an emergency order to stop the Farm Line from operating whenever the heat index reaches or exceeds 88°. @legal_reader buff.ly/3X20VUD

@justicespromise, @rightsbehind, @PaulWeissLLP, @FIPVOTENOLA and eight men who are incarcerated at Angola have asked a federal judge to stop prison officials from operating the so-called Farm Line whenever the heat index reaches or exceeds 88 degrees. promiseofjustice.org/news/incarcera…

5 U.S. senators are demanding that BOP director provide them with information on how the agency prepared to close FCI Dublin, including written plans to its employees on the “safe and humane release from custody.” bit.ly/3WiVu3p

Since the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced the closure of FCI Dublin, the BOP has rushed mass transfers, including numerous survivors of prison staff sexual abuse and medically vulnerable people, with little accountability or transparency. ktvu.com/news/fci-dubli…

Our statement on the FCI-Dublin closure. We demand our people be released from BOP custody AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! We will not let BOP evade accountability & disappear the people detained at Dublin & the support systems they've courageously built. 🔗 bit.ly/dpsc-closure

Deja vu. 3 yrs ago @MacArthrJustice @ArchCityDefense @SLUHCRC @RightsBehind sued the City for nearly the same inhumane conduct. I guess they need to be sued again.

Some incredibly disturbing allegations against TX’s largest jail system in a lawsuit filed yesterday by a young woman who entered lockup pregnant in 2022 and says she miscarried after neglect and assault behind bars houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

BAY AREA: All out this Tuesday! Join us for court support in our class action lawsuit against FCI-Dublin's systemic staff sexual abuse. Wear purple if you can.

. @RightsBehind is helping Mr. Brown rightly sue the prison system for imposing these draconian fines without allowing him to appeal. We filed an amicus brief in support. Learn more: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/01/3…

We need incarcerated activists like Rashid Johnson, and we must protect their right to speak out about abuses behind bars. Read more: bit.ly/486UBNy

At every turn, VADOC officials have tried to stop him from speaking out. They have subjected him to life-threatening cruelty, including depriving him of water.

TODAY: RBB filed emergency litigation on behalf of Rashid Johnson, who has been on hunger strike for 41 days in protest of Virginia's use of solitary confinement.