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Health and Environmental Conditions

Health of incarcerated people and the physical environment of prisons and jails

Media Release: Prisoners File Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Toxic Strip Mine Site in Kentucky

November 27, 2018

Media Release: Habeas Petitions Filed To Free Move Members Janet and Janine Africa

October 04, 2018

Lawsuit Filed Seeking Immediate Treatment for Hepatitis C

September 26, 2018

Judge: Philly man in solitary for 24 years deserves a chance at general population

Judge: Philly man in solitary for 24 years deserves a chance at general population

February 23, 2018

Allegheny County Jail to Cease Housing Pregnant Women in Isolation

November 09, 2017

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

August 04, 2017

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

April 18, 2017

MEDIA RELEASE: Federal Court Orders DOC to Provide Hepatitis C Treatment to Mumia Abu-Jamal

January 04, 2017

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

December 19, 2016

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

October 25, 2016

“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