what california.laws have passed in 2019 that apply to inmates

Quick links to updates on what we are doing virtually COVID-nineteen in California Prisons, Arizona Prisons, Riverside County Jails, and Lompoc and Terminal Isle Federal Prisons.

Quick link to updates on the Jensen v. Shinn case.

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• Judge Reopens Case and Orders Trial on Conditions in Arizona Prisons

  (July sixteen, 2021) The Prison house Constabulary Part and our co-counsel ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU of Arizona, and Arizona Middle for Disability Law are working to enforce the rights of people in Arizona state prisons in the federal class action lawsuit Parsons v. Shinn. On July 16, 2021, the Court reopened the case and ordered a trial, to showtime no later than Nov 1, 2021. The Courtroom'south order found that "Defendants have in the past 6 years proffered erroneous and unreliable excuses for not-operation, asserted baseless legal arguments, and in essence resisted complying with the obligations they contractually knowingly and voluntarily assumed."

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• Settlement Reached in Contra Costa Canton Jail Course Action Lawsuit

  (Oct. i, 2020) – On behalf of the thousands of people incarcerated in Contra Costa Canton Jail now and in the hereafter, the Prison Law Part reached a settlement with Contra Costa County in a course action lawsuit that seeks to end the dangerous and unconstitutional atmospheric condition at the jail.

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• Prison Law Office Mourns the Death of Our Co-Founder, Michael Satris

  The Prison Police Office is securely saddened to announce that our co-founder, and get-go Manager, Michael Satris died on July 29, 2020, at the age of seventy. Mike and Paul Comiskey founded the Prison Police force Role in 1976 after their graduation from UC Davis Police School.  Mike was a tireless advocate for his clients, and without him the function would not exist and many people would nevertheless be in prison today.  The San Francisco Chronicle published a tribute to his piece of work on August 21, 2020.

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• Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Challenging Atmospheric condition in Santa Barbara Canton Jail

  

  On behalf of the hundreds of people incarcerated in Santa Barbara County Jail, on July 17, 2020, Disability Rights California, Prison Police force Office, and King & Spalding LLP reached a groundbreaking settlement with Santa Barbara County and the Santa Barbara Sheriff'due south Office in a course action lawsuit that seeks to address the unsafe and unconstitutional atmospheric condition at the jail.

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• Prison Police Part Argument of Solidarity With Protests of Systemic Racism and Police Violence

  The Prison Police Office stands in solidarity with people beyond the world and the U.s.a. calling for justice for George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Atatiana Jefferson, Rayshard Brooks, and the scores of other Black, indigenous, and people of colour who take been victims of state-sanctioned law enforcement brutality in this country since its founding.

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• Continued Advocacy on Behalf of People Incarcerated in Final Island and Lompoc Prisons

  On July 14, 2020, ii judges issued orders in the cases brought by the American Civil Liberties Wedlock Foundation of Southern California, the Prison Police force Part, and the police force firm Bird Marella  on behalf of people incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institutions in Lompoc (Santa Barbara County) and on Last Isle (Los Angeles County).

  In Torres v. Milusnic, a case brought on behalf of people at FCI-Lompoc, District Guess Consuelo Marshall ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to develop a process to identify all people held in the prison who are over the age of 50, or who have certain underlying medical weather condition that put them at higher risk of complications from COVID-nineteen.  Approximate Marshall directed BOP to notify these incarcerated people by July 22, 2020 that they are being considered for release to abode confinement or compassionate release, and to provide the court with the criteria for early release by that date, and that BOP complete the evaluation of the vulnerable people by July 28.

  In Wilson v. Ponce, a case brought on behalf of people in FCI-Terminal Island, District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald denied Plaintiffs' asking that he order BOP for a process for immediate evaluation of the incarcerated people for home confinement or empathetic release on the basis that the Prison house Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") barred such an order.  Notwithstanding, before ruling on the conditions at the prison, he ordered independent medical expert Dr. Michael Rowe conduct an independent site visit of the prison no later on than August 3, 2020.

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• People Incarcerated in Riverside County Jails Seek Federal Court Action to Address COVID-19

  The Prison Law Office filed an emergency motion in federal court to force the Riverside Canton jails to establish physical distancing for all people living in the jails and provide advisable hygiene supplies to disinfect and protect confronting the spread of COVID-19.

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• Ninth Circuit Upholds Contempt Order in Arizona Prison Health Care Example

  

  The Ninth Circuit ruled unanimously on January 29, 2020 to uphold a lower court's antipathy social club fining the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) more than than $1.4 million for failing to amend the health care provided to people in Arizona prisons in Parsons v. Ryan (now known as Parsons v. Shinn).  The Prison Law Office, ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU of Arizona, Arizona Center for Inability Police force, and Perkins Coie represent incarcerated people in the example.

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• PLO and Partners Demand Humane Weather at Oklahoma's Death Row

  

  OKLAHOMA Urban center – Attorneys from the ACLU of Oklahoma,  Prison Law Part, ACLU National Prison Projection, ACLU Program on Freedom of Organized religion and Belief, and Sidley Austin, LLP, sent a demand letter on July 29, 2019 to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections calling on the department to address the inhumane treatment of people condemned to expiry at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, OK.

  The H-Unit is an hole-and-corner bunker at the maximum-security prison house facility, where people sentenced to death are incarcerated indefinitely in alone confinement and restricted to their concrete tombs, no bigger than a parking space, for 22 to 24 hours per day. Clandestine, with no outside exposure or homo contact, 1 prisoner made the comparison of the environment to being buried alive.

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• Settlement Reached in Course Action Challenging Weather condition in Sacramento County Jail

  

  On June 20, 2019, on behalf of the near 4,000 people incarcerated in Sacramento County'southward jails, the Prison Police force Function, Disability Rights California, and Cooley LLP reached a proposed settlement with the County to address the unsafe and unconstitutional conditions in the jails.

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• The California Prison house and Parole Law Handbook

  

  Updated for 2019, The California Prison and Parole Law Handbook past Heather MacKay and the Prison Law Office is now available FREE on-line. We are also taking orders for paper copies.

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• United states-European Criminal Justice Plan Going Strong

  

• Art Gallery

  

  See our new art gallery provided by incarcerated individuals.

• Inside Books Project Resource Guide

  

  Inside Books Project offers a Resources Guide with helpful resources for incarcerated people and their loved ones.  The entire IBP Resource Guide is available every bit a searchable online resource and as a downloadable PDF.

• Transgender People in Prison

  

• Youth Offender Parole Guide

  

  This Youth Offender Parole Guide provides detailed information about the laws that allow some people to seek early on parole for crimes they committed prior to age 26.  It also includes data on others ways that people can seek re-sentencing for crimes committed when they were juveniles or young adults.

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