Jenkins-Millage v. Oregon Department of Corrections

Hundreds of people held in solitary confinement in Oregon prisons spend 23 to 24 hours a day inside windowless boxes smaller than a parking space, sometimes for months to years on end. They face extreme restrictions on their time outside, contact with other incarcerated people, and contact with their loved ones. They eat alone, exercise alone, worship alone, mourn alone, and—far too often—suffer mental breakdowns alone. ODOC’s solitary confinement program also discriminates against people with physical disabilities by placing them in inaccessible cells and denying them basic disability accommodations.

On June 11, 2026, Linsey Duvall, Dominique Jenkins-Millage, Orlando Pouncey, Martin Kirk-Varela and Rolando Martinez-Farias filed a class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), arguing that its solitary confinement practices violate Oregon constitutional law and disability rights law. The lawsuit argues that ODOC subjects our plaintiffs and others in solitary confinement to dangerous and dehumanizing treatment that has caused new and worsening physical and mental illness, and that ODOC has denied reasonable accommodations to people in solitary confinement with disabilities. The five plaintiffs are being represented by Prison Law Office, Oregon Justice Resource Center, the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.