The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) has sent an advocacy letter regarding a woman with extreme mental health care needs who has been incarcerated at SCI Muncy since approximately 2014.
PILP Sends Advocacy Letter on Behalf of Man Suffering from Opioid Use Disorder
New Report Finds Overwhelming Majority of Pennsylvania Jails Provide Inadequate Care for Opioid Use Disorder
As overdose deaths continue to climb in the U.S., claiming more than 100,000 lives including more than 5,400 in Pennsylvania last year alone, new research demonstrates that incarcerated people in Pennsylvania are routinely denied access to the lifesaving medications they need, hampering efforts to reverse course on the overdose crisis.
PILP Sends Advocacy Letter to ACJ Warden on Behalf of Transman Denied Adequate Medical Care
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project has sent an advocacy letter to Allegheny County Jail Warden Orlando Harper regarding the denial of medical care to a transman.
After 20-Month Investigation, Lawyers Uncover Compelling Evidence Concerning Treatment of Incarcerated People with Mental Illness at Allegheny County Jail
Lawyers from the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP have filed a motion in federal court seeking authorization to pursue class action relief for all incarcerated people at the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ) requiring mental health care now and in the future.
Court Grants Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlement in Case To Improve Philadelphia Jail Conditions
After two years of advocating for relief from the deplorable conditions of confinement in the Philadelphia jails in the case Remick v. Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP), Kairys Rudovsky Messing Feinberg and Lin, Abolitionist Law Center, and Dechert LLP announce that they have reached a class action settlement with the City of Philadelphia designed to immediately address and improve those conditions for people incarcerated in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. Today, U.S. District Court Judge Berle M. Schiller, the federal judge who overseeing the Remick case, issued an order granting preliminary approval of the global settlement agreement.
PILP Sends Advocacy Letter on Behalf of Woman Removed from MOUD Treatment
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project PILP) has sent an advocacy letter to Schuylkill County Prison officials on behalf of Alisa Steffie, who was abruptly removed from her medication for opioid use disorder.
City Will Give $125,000 to Philadelphia Bail Fund in Legal Settlement Over Jail Conditions
In June of 2021, lawyers bringing a class action lawsuit against the Philadelphia jails reached a then-unprecedented settlement agreement with the City of Philadelphia, resulting in the payment of $125,000 to two nonprofit bail funds. This week, this same legal team has reached another agreement that will see the City duplicating that payment.