Add to ORKGHundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with disabilities are incarcerated. They face discrimination and endure conditions that can be life-threatening in prisons and jails that are ill equipped to house and treat them. This Article describes how litigation can be used to divert disabled prisoners from correctional systems via constitutional claims, lawsuits premised on the Americans with Disabilities Act, and innovative post-judgment remedial schemes
In recent years the number of inmates held in isolation in American prisons has increased dramatical...
The Eighth Amendment has long served as the traditional legal vehicle for challenging prison conditi...
article published in law reviewPrisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of acti...
Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with disabilities are incarcerated. They face disc...
This article draws from interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated people with disabilities...
The federal government incarcerates hundreds of thousands of people on any given day, in jails, pris...
Over the last five decades, advocates have fought for and secured constitutional prohibitions challe...
Over the last five decades, advocates have fought for and secured constitutional prohibitions challe...
Inmates with disabilities are at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19 due to crowded...
A majority of American prisoners have at least one disability. So how jails and prisons deal with th...
This Article focuses on criminal justice reform in the context of litigation. Specifically, it offer...
The United States makes up only 5 percent of the world\u27s population, but it incarcerates 25 perce...
This article argues that the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999)...
People with disabilities are all too well represented in America’s prisons and are frequently not pr...
In a landmark decision two decades ago, United States District Judge Thelton Henderson emphasized th...
In recent years the number of inmates held in isolation in American prisons has increased dramatical...
The Eighth Amendment has long served as the traditional legal vehicle for challenging prison conditi...
article published in law reviewPrisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of acti...
Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with disabilities are incarcerated. They face disc...
This article draws from interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated people with disabilities...
The federal government incarcerates hundreds of thousands of people on any given day, in jails, pris...
Over the last five decades, advocates have fought for and secured constitutional prohibitions challe...
Over the last five decades, advocates have fought for and secured constitutional prohibitions challe...
Inmates with disabilities are at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19 due to crowded...
A majority of American prisoners have at least one disability. So how jails and prisons deal with th...
This Article focuses on criminal justice reform in the context of litigation. Specifically, it offer...
The United States makes up only 5 percent of the world\u27s population, but it incarcerates 25 perce...
This article argues that the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999)...
People with disabilities are all too well represented in America’s prisons and are frequently not pr...
In a landmark decision two decades ago, United States District Judge Thelton Henderson emphasized th...
In recent years the number of inmates held in isolation in American prisons has increased dramatical...
The Eighth Amendment has long served as the traditional legal vehicle for challenging prison conditi...
article published in law reviewPrisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of acti...