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MEDIA RELEASE: Lawsuit seeks end to 19-year solitary confinement on death row

The Batts II Decision: The Favorable and Where It Falls Short

PA Supreme Court Petition Challenges Mandatory Life Without Parole for 18-Year-Old Juveniles

MEDIA RELEASE: Owners of Dog Shot by Pittsburgh Police Demand Criminal Charges be Dropped

Time to Fight Back: Statement from Legal Counsel in Support of Professor George Ciccariello-Maher

Media Release: In Precedential Third Circuit Ruling, Lawsuit Challenging Solitary Confinement Resulting in Suicide Moves Forward

Lawsuit Filed Challenging County Jail’s Practice of Placing Pregnant Women in Solitary Confinement

MEDIA RELEASE: Lawsuit Filed Against Corizon and Allegheny County Jail for Starving 28-year-old, Causing Heart Attack

MEDIA RELEASE: Federal Judge Orders Pennsylvania DOC to Release Arthur Johnson from Solitary Confinement

MEDIA RELEASE: Settlement reached in Shoatz v. Wetzel

“I’ve been following the work of the Abolitionist Law Center for quite a long time. If we’re going to begin the process of eliminating structural racism, we certainly have to start with prisons.”

Angela Y. Davis

Abolitionist Law Center
P.O. Box 23032
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
info@alcenter.org