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Making Noise & Making News: June 2023
Our community organizing, legal work, and strategic communications have contributed to exciting developments in the last few months for many of the issues we work on at the Abolitionist Law Center....
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Making Noise & Making News: March 2023
Our litigators, organizers, and volunteers, and the larger abolition and decarceration movement we’re part of, have been running at full speed the last few months. We’ve been in the streets and in the...
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ACJ’s Medical Neglect Leads to Life-Threatening Emergency for Denzelle Kendrick
Denzelle Kendrick January 26, 2023, Pittsburgh: The Abolitionist Law Center is demanding that the Allegheny County Jail provide immediate medical care for Denzelle Kendrick, a medically vulnerable...
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Plaintiffs bring class action lawsuit challenging the pervasive use of...
For Immediate Release: October 3, 2022 – Pittsburgh, Pa. – Six currently detained individuals filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania...
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ALC Fall 2022 Update
Making Noise & Making News It’s been a HUGE three months at ALC. We’ve come hard at Death By Incarceration, solitary confinement, abusive and discriminatory judges and court practices, and the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: William Lukas, Director of Communications: wjlukas@alcenter.org PITTSBURGH – On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the Abolitionist Law Center, a nonprofit prisoners’ rights law...
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Prisoners’ Rights Advocates File Lawsuit Against Allegheny County Jail for...
December 2, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jaclyn Kurin, Abolitionist Law Center, (703)-850-8914, jkurin@alcenter.org Alexandra Morgan-Kurtz, PA Institutional Law Project, (412) 434-6175...
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ALC Court Watch Releases First Court Watch Docket Report
December 1, 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:William Lukas, Abolitionist Law Center • wjlukas@alcenter.org PITTSBURGH – The ALC Court Watch, launched by the Abolitionist Law Center in January 2020 to...
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Prisoners’ Rights Advocates File Class Action Lawsuit Against Allegheny...
September 15, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: William Lukas, Abolitionist Law Center, wjlukas@alcenter.org Rebecca Susman, PA Institutional Law Project, rsusman@pailp.org PITTSBURGH – The...
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We Demand Universal Testing at ACJ
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald 436 Grant St #101 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Director Debra Bogen, MD 542 Fourth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Warden Orlando Harper 950 Second Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219...
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COVID-19 – Protecting Public Health in Allegheny County: Release and Divert...
Endorse this statement as an organization using this Google Form. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has created an international public health crisis. It has now been classified as a global pandemic by the...
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Media Release: Emergency Petition Filed For Young Woman Placed In Solitary...
On Monday the Abolitionist Law Center along with the law office of Timothy P. O’Brien and attorney Jules Lobel, filed an emergency petition against the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) in the United States...
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Allegheny County Jail to Cease Housing Pregnant Women in Isolation
Agreement Reached in Settlement of a Lawsuit Brought by Women who Were Housed in Solitary While Pregnant PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County has settled a lawsuit filed last December by five women who...
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Lawsuit Filed Challenging County Jail’s Practice of Placing Pregnant Women in...
PITTSBURGH (December 19) – The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), and Reed Smith LLP joined forces today in filing claims in...
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Allegheny County Jail to Cease Housing Pregnant Women in Isolation
Agreement Reached in Settlement of a Lawsuit Brought by Women who Were Housed in Solitary While Pregnant PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County has settled a lawsuit filed last December by five women who...
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Lawsuit Filed Challenging County Jail’s Practice of Placing Pregnant Women in...
PITTSBURGH (December 19) – The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), and Reed Smith LLP joined forces today in filing claims in...
View ArticleMEDIA RELEASE: Lawsuit Filed Against Corizon and Allegheny County Jail for...
October 12, 2016: A lawsuit filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania federal court today describes the harrowing story of plaintiff Christopher Wallace, who was twice hospitalized because medical...
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