Griffith v. Franklin County
Rights Behind Bars, along with MacArthur Center, represent a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of an eighteen-year old pretrial detainee who experienced severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and multiple seizures prior to proper medical intervention in a Kentucky jail. The organizations argue that the Sixth Circuit must follow the lead of other circuits and apply a more lenient standard to pre-trial detainees making such claims than the equivalent claims brought by people in prison post-conviction.