Court Cases

The Ohio Parole Board’s policy of denying access to victim statements precludes meaningful consideration because it prevents individuals seeking parole from knowing about, rebutting, or responding to information that is being considered by the Board.

The Michigan District Court held that a prisoner’s lack of cognitive capacity to access the grievance process does not make it unavailable, and so it dismissed her PRLA lawsuit for failure to exhaust. The underlying facts are horrific. The issue on appeal is the exhaustion of administrative remedies

In 1978 the US Supreme Court found Ohio's death penalty process unconstitutional. Individuals who had previously been sentenced to death were resentenced, often to life with the possibility of parole. The Ohio Parole Board has a practice of denying these people parole, regardless of circumstance.

The garnishment of prisoners’ relief checks for debts other than child support, when all other Ohioans’ relief checks are treated are fully immune to non-child support garnishments, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Ohio Constitution.

We filed this habeas action on "deliberate indifference" standards to decrease the population of Elkton FCI during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.