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2 Court Cases
Court Case
May 14, 2020
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  • Criminal Justice Reform

Waddell v. Taylor

The ACLU of Mississippi, along with the Mississippi Center for Justice, Hogan Lovells law firm, and attorney Mark Whitburn of Austin, Texas, filed a class-action lawsuit against two of Mississippi’s largest prisons for their inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Court Case
Oct 21, 2015
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  • Equality & Equity of Access|
  • +1 Issue

Kennedy v. City of Biloxi

In the latest pushback against the national scourge of debtors' prisons, on October 21, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging the illegal arrest and jailing of poor people in Biloxi, Mississippi, without a hearing or representation by counsel. Victims are...