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Liman Center Releases Updated Report on Solitary Confinement
The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the Correctional Leaders Association have released "Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing," the only comprehensive, current national data on the number of prisoners in solitary confinement.
Liman Affiliates, Alumni Assist on Prison COVID-19 Suit that Reached Settlement
Liman Center affiliates and alumni shared a win for prisoners at a federal prison in Connecticut on July 28 when a settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons over its handling of COVID-19.
Clinic Reaches Settlement Agreement in Bureau of Prisons COVID-19 Case
The parties in Martinez-Brooks v. Easter have reached an agreement to ensure that the Federal Bureau of Prisons takes speedy action in reviewing medically vulnerable individuals for release from the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, CT. The Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic represented the proposed class.
Mellon Foundation, Justice Collaboratory Announce Million Book Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory announced a new initiative to distribute a curated 500-book collection to 1,000 medium and maximum security prisons, across every state in the United States over the next three and a half years.
Yale to Launch Center Focused on Health and Mass Incarceration
The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School, will work to identify the legal, policy, and practice levers that can improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration.
The New Yorker