Mr. Montanez collapsed in his cell and lost all sensation from the chest down. Rather than sending him to a hospital, prison staff laughed off his request for emergency care, left him to drag his paralyzed body across his cell floor, and abandoned him for three days before he received an MRI revealing spinal cord stenosis and edema requiring surgery.

Mr. Kinard was denied adequate medical care and disability accommodations after fracturing his foot. He filed suit, bringing claims under the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and Eighth Amendment.

After a diagnosis with lumbar stenosis Mr. Durham has been limited in his ability to ambulate and was prescribed a cane to allow him to walk without extreme pain. Despite this diagnosis and prescription, officials in the Trenton facility ordered Mr. Durham to abandon his cane in his cell when he was transferred to a quarantine unit. They then continued to deny him access to his cane for approximately ten days. They did this despite numerous different requests from Mr. Durham for his cane to nurses, doctors, and correctional officers, and despite his reports of excruciating pain when he was forced to walk without his cane.

After injuring his knee in a fall at one Wisconsin prison, Lee Brown was transferred to another facility where his previously granted accommodations—a lower bunk, a wheelchair, and crutches—were not continued. He fell again while climbing to a top bunk, and was told he needed surgery that the prison would not provide.

Mr. Hall has been paralyzed from the waist down since 2012 and requires a wheelchair for mobility. Jail staff repeatedly refused to assist him in accessing his bed, the toilet, and medical appointments, citing "protocol."

Mr. Shaw, a wheelchair user, was unable to access the prison’s only handicapped-accessible toilet on multiple occasions because it was in use. Mr. Shaw’s lawsuit was dismissed by the district court at screening. The court characterized his inability to access a handicapped toilet as a mere "inconvenience" of prison life.

Rights Behind Bars is lead counsel representing a formerly pro se detainee who after a serious knee injury did not receive recreation, an accessible shower, a safe housing unit, or a railing to hold onto while being strip-searched.

Rights Behind Bars represents Rick Munoz in his appeal of the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on his claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).