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2. Clive Stafford Smith - Wikipedia

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   Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America. [1] He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts, and helped found the not-for-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans. By 2002 this ...

3. Prisoner rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, or PLRA, is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners.Among its provisions, the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer ...

4. Category:American civil rights lawyers - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "American civil rights lawyers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 284 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

5. Peter Eliasberg: Fearsome litigator for inmates' rights - AOL

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   As chief counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Peter Eliasberg is representing thousands of L.A. County inmates in two lawsuits.

6. National Lawyers Guild - Wikipedia

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   In 2009, the journal once again changed name to National Lawyers Guild Review, shortening to NLG Review. [citation needed] With the Center for Constitutional Rights, the NLG published a revised Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook, and annually distributes thousands of copies to inmates seeking legal information and resources. [49]

7. Jail conditions in Georgia's Fulton County violated ...

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   Georgia is one of a handful of states where 17-year-olds are charged as adults, and the Justice Department found this exacerbated the jail's ability to care for inmates. "None of these problems ...