News: Prisoner’s Rights

ECBAWM Obtains Preliminary Approval of $92.5 Million Class Action Settlement for Immigrants Unlawfully Detained in New York City Jails

December 18, 2024

ECBAWM files suit against New York City over the death of William Brown on Rikers Island

December 12, 2024

ECBAWM Wins Motion to Hold City in Contempt For Its Failure to Stem Violence at the City’s Jails; Judge Orders City to Discuss Possible Receivership

November 27, 2024

ECBAWM files suit against New York City seeking accountability for Donny Ubiera’s death on Rikers Island

November 18, 2024

Dan Eisenberg Presents at 2024 Prison Law & Advocacy Conference

October 21, 2024

Post-Release Supervision Class Action to Proceed to Damages Trial Following ECBAWM’s Successful Motion for Reconsideration

September 27, 2024

Court holds argument on ECBAWM’s Motion to Hold City in Contempt For Its Failure to Stem Violence at the City’s Jails; Judge Orders City to Discuss Possible Receivership

September 25, 2024

ECBAWM Sues NYC Department of Correction After the Agency Denied Records to Family of Bayside Man who died at Rikers

July 9, 2024

ECBAWM Defeats Correctional Officers’ Summary Judgment Motion in Prison Excessive Force Case

June 11, 2024

Newsday Reports on ECBAWM Religious Rights Case

January 22, 2024

ECBAWM Files Religious Rights Suit Against Suffolk County

January 17, 2024

City of New York to Pay $2.25 Million in Death of Herminio Villanueva at Rikers

December 26, 2023

ECBAWM Files Religious Rights Suit Against the NYPD

December 11, 2023

Record Settlement for Tragic Death of 21-Year-Old Man from Untreated Appendicitis in Oklahoma State Prison

December 5, 2023

Federal Bureau of Prisons to Compensate Almost 1600 People in Brooklyn Jail Blackout Case

August 21, 2023