prison-reform
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7225 | Chad Cutler v. Anthony Wills | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-conflict prison-reform section-2254 | Whether the principle of administrative exhaustion applies to prison habeas petitions under 28 U.S.C. section 2254 to exhaust administrative remedies |
| 21-5071 | Gigi Fairchild Littlefield v. California | California | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation prison-reform prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standing systemic-injustice | Whether the State of California's Department of Corrections has ignored a court ruling that jeopardized the lives and caused injuries and deaths of ma… |
| 20-8340 | Reginald Charles Harvey v. Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights compassionate-release covid-19 due-process prison-reform | What constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the Tennessee Department of Correction denied the petitioners' request for compassionate r… |
| 20-7075 | J. P. Parnell v. Doctor Chen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | IFP | administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inmate-litigation judicial-discretion medical-need prison-reform procedural-bar standing | At what point does the judiciary have an obligation to curtail efforts to procedurally bar inmate litigation and consider gross salient factors that a… |
| 19-5485 | Justin James Thrasher v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-08-06 | Denied | IFP | arizona-supreme-court brown-v-plata brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-oversight prison-reform prisoner-rights standing supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's decision violates the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011) |
| 18-6987 | Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review | Whether the failure of the Arkansas Department of Correction to pay equitable remuneration to its inmate population violates the Thirteenth Amendment'… |