The Abolitionist Law Center is partnering with GroupRaise as we move toward our end of the year goal of raising $50,000.00. Join us on Monday, December 17th, from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm at Choolah Indian BBQ as we #shareameal and #raisesomefunds. The Abolitionist Law Continue reading Action Alert: Join Us On Monday for A Meal
For Immediate Release 11/27/18 Contacts: Emily Posner, Attorney for Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, (207) 930-5232 Prisoners File Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Toxic Strip Mine Site in Kentucky PICTURES AVAILABLE Washington, DC — Lawyers with the Campaign to Fight Continue reading Media Release: Prisoners File Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Toxic Strip Mine Site in Kentucky
The Abolitionist Law Center, our clients, and our supporters have made important strides in overturning laws aimed at censoring and silencing prisoners’ voices, in challenging decades-long solitary confinement, and in pushing for life-saving treatment for hepatitis C+ prisoners. Over the Continue reading ACTION ALERT: Help the Abolitionist Law Center Meet Its End of the Year Fundraising Goal!
Help the Fight to Free MOVE Members Who Have Been Wrongfully Incarcerated for 40 Years Please contribute to the MOVE 9 legal fund to continue the efforts to free all MOVE political prisoners. On June 16, 2018, Debbie Africa became Continue reading Action Alert: Support the MOVE 9 Legal Fund!!!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 30, 2018 CONTACT: Andy Hoover, media@aclupa.org, 717-236-6827 x213 HARRISBURG— The ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP filed two Continue reading Media Release: Legal Advocates Challenge Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ New Procedures for Legal Mail
October 23, 2018 Earlier today, MOVE member Mike Africa was released from prison after 40 years of incarceration. Mike was released on parole from SCI Phoenix in Skippak Township this morning. Mike was imprisoned since August 8, 1978, following an Continue reading MEDIA RELEASE: MOVE 9 Member Mike Africa Released on Parole After 40 Years in Prison
For Immediate Release October 16, 2018 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) On Tuesday, October 23, at 9:30 a.m. the Abolitionist Law Center will argue at an En Banc hearing in front of the Pennsylvania Superior Court in the case is the Commonwealth Continue reading Media Release: En Banc Hearing Granted For Avis Lee
October 04, 2018 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Today, the Abolitionist Law Center and the Peoples Law Office filed Habeas motions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of Janet Hollaway Africa and Janine Phillips Africa Continue reading Media Release: Habeas Petitions Filed To Free Move Members Janet and Janine Africa
September 26, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). The Amistad Law Project, The Abolitionist Law Center, and the Law Office of Carey Shenkman on Monday filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to Continue reading Lawsuit Filed Seeking Immediate Treatment for Hepatitis C
New Data: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Lead the Nation and World in Life Without Parole Sentences Comprehensive Study Shows that Life Without Parole Sentences in Pennsylvania are Imposed on the Young with Alarming Racial Disparities (Pittsburgh, PA) Philadelphia County has 2,694 Continue reading Media Release: A Way Out: Abolishing Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania
