Private Prisons
Dockery v. Hall
The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated "in a perpetual state of crisis" where prisoners are at "grave risk of death and loss of limbs." The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state's prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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2 Private Prisons Cases
May 2016
![Kelly v. Wengler](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Kelly v. Wengler
This case, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Idaho, seeks to put a stop to the culture of rampant violence that has led to carnage and suffering among prisoners at officials at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), the state-owned facility operated by the for-profit company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).
Status: Ongoing
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![Kelly v. Wengler](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Private Prisons
Prisoners' Rights
Kelly v. Wengler
This case, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Idaho, seeks to put a stop to the culture of rampant violence that has led to carnage and suffering among prisoners at officials at the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), the state-owned facility operated by the for-profit company Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).
May 2016
Status: Ongoing
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Sep 2011
![Minneci v. Pollard](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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![Minneci v. Pollard](https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/themes/aclu-wp/img/fallback-case-gavel.png)
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Minneci v. Pollard
Whether private prison officials can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of federal prisoners?
Sep 2011
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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