Prison Law Office attorney Kelly Knapp has been named Legal Services Attorney of the Year by the California Association of Mental Health Patients’ Rights Advocates. Congratulations, Kelly!

The Prison Law Office, the American Civil Liberties Union-National Prison Project, the ACLU of Arizona, and co-counsel today filed a settlement agreement in Parsons v. Ryan, a class-action suit on behalf of more than 33,000 prisoners in Arizona.

Prisoners’ attorneys have filed a Motion and Reply asking the federal three-judge court overseeing California’s prison overcrowding case to enforce an order requiring the State to take certain population-reduction actions “immediately.” These actions include increasing good conduct credits for minimum-security prisoners and some “second strike” prisoners and implementing new procedures for earlier parole of some non-dangerous prisoners.

The Prison Law Office and co-counsel attorneys for prisoners in a class action lawsuit have issued a Press Release and filed a series of Expert Reports describing the Arizona prison system’s widespread use of inhumane segregation units and failure to provide basic medical, mental health and dental care.

Read the news stories about the reports: Think Progress, Arizona Republic, Tuscon Weekly, Arizona Public Media, Arizona Daily Star, CBS 5, Phoenix New Times.

Channel 12 News has broadcast two detailed reports on the appalling lack of medical and mental health care in the Arizona Prisons. View the May 22, 2014 Investigative Report and the August 1, 2014 Investigative Report.