Rights Behind Bars
Cases
Rights Behind Bars has won more than a hundred cases in the Federal Circuit Courts. Our briefs are linked on their case pages. If they are helpful to you as an attorney or pro se litigator, please feel welcome to use them.
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Savino, et al. v. Souza
In partnership with Lawyers for Civil Rights, Yale Law School Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, and WilmerHale, Rights Behind Bars acts as counsel for a facility-wide class action seeking release of all people in immigration detention in Bristol County House of Corrections in Massachusetts because of their conditions of confinement and COVID-19.
Busby v. Bonner
Rights Behind Bars, along with the MacArthur Justice Center and Janet Goode, represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the pretrial detainees at a Tennessee jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
Cameron v. Bouchard
Rights Behind Bars represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the detainees at a Michigan jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
United States v. Westine
Rights Behind Bars represented John Westine Jr. in an appeal of a district court's denial of his motion for compassionate release.