prison-reform

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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'…