Join us at Oakland Federal Courthouse this Friday @ NOON for a press conference re: our class action lawsuit against Dublin and important hearings currently taking place. If you're free, stop by for court support anytime today thru Friday! 💜

. Rights Behind Bars 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…

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.

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/…

Deja vu. 3 yrs ago MacArthur Justice Center ArchCity Defenders HCRC at SLU Rights Behind Bars sued the City for nearly the same inhumane conduct. I guess they need to be sued again.

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

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…

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

@justicespromise, @rightsbehind, Paul, Weiss LLP, @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…

⚖️ PJI Rights Behind Bars, 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

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My latest for The Nation looks at the death of an incarcerated woman at the Central CA Women's Facility during a week of ~110 degree temperatures & the lack of heat mitigation efforts throughout the nation's 2nd largest prison: thenation.com/article/societ…

"It is forced labor. It is slavery. There’s no real choice.” Bryce Covert Businessweek @FIPVOTENOLA @rightsbehind Worth Rises Abolish Slavery National Network buff.ly/3WObdr8

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 Rights Behind Bars #EndPlantationPrisons

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

“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…

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