Cases
All of our briefs are linked on their respective case pages. If they are helpful to you as an attorney or pro se litigator, please feel welcome to use them.
Savage v. Harris County, Texas, et. al.
Harris County Jail, in Houston Texas, is one of the most violent and deadly jails in the country. Ms. Savage suffered unspeakable violence during the three months she was incarcerated, including a guard assault that resulted in the loss of her pregnancy.
Moderwell v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Rights Behind Bars has won an appeal in the Sixth Circuit on behalf of Larry Johnson, a pretrial detainee at Cuyahoga County Correctional Center in Cleveland who committed suicide under the watch of corrections officers.
Rivas v. Hodgson
RBB acts as counsel on behalf of Moises Rivas who was unlawfully held by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office for three weeks solely because he had an outstanding civil immigration detainer.
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.
Busby v. Bonner
Rights Behind Bars, along with the MacArthur Justice Center and Janet Goode, represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the pretrial detainees at a Tennessee jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
Cameron v. Bouchard
Rights Behind Bars represents a coalition of prison rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the detainees at a Michigan jail where a COVID-19 outbreak occurred after the jail did not take adequate precautions.
Troutman v. Louisville MDC
In collaboration with the MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU, Rights Behind Bars represents a coalition of civil rights and human rights organizations as amici curiae in support of the estate of Charles Troutman. Troutman was held in the Louisville Metro Detention Center on a cash bond where he committed suicide.