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2. Category : Legal advocacy organizations in the United States

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   Center for Individual Rights; Center for Inquiry; Center for Justice and Accountability; Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise; Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment; Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth; Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Chicana Rights Project; Christian Legal Society; Civil Rights Congress

3. H. Candace Gorman - Wikipedia

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   Gorman told northern Michigan newspaper Northern Express that she represents both men as a civil rights lawyer, seeking a fair trial for them based on the right of habeas corpus. (According to this traditional legal principle, prisoners have a right to know the evidence against them and to request a fair trial, based on that evidence.)

4. National Lawyers Guild - Wikipedia

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   Full membership in the NLG is open to lawyers, law students, legal workers (including legal secretaries, legal investigators, paralegals, law collective members, and jailhouse lawyers). Prior to the 1972 NLG National Convention, held in Boulder, Colorado, membership was only open to lawyers. Members now include labor organizers, tribal ...

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. Dead inmates' families 'hope for change' after filing legal ...

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   Sep. 7—Families of former Kern County inmates are seeking justice through legal action after alleging deputies' failure to ensure inmates' safety led to their loved ones dying, according to ...

7. 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 ...