The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) sent an advocacy letter on behalf of our client Christine DiCarlo, a federal pretrial detainee and lifelong resident of Lackawanna County, challenging the prison's blanket policy of denying religious services to any detainee who has a "separation" in place with another incarcerated person.
Lawsuit Filed Against Federal Bureau of Prisons Over Savage Assault and Neglect of Incarcerated Man with Epilepsy
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), alleging that corrections officers at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Canaan brutally assaulted, sexually abused, and placed an incarcerated man with known epilepsy for about 40 hours near-naked in restraints, without food or water, and laying in urine and feces, while he had a seizure.
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project Sues York County and PrimeCare Medical Over Systemic Failure to Treat Incarcerated Man's Ruptured Appendix
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) filed a federal civil rights complaint against York County and its former medical provider, PrimeCare Medical, Inc., alleging that systemic failures led an incarcerated man, Willie Cunningham, to suffer life-threatening sepsis and permanent internal damage after nursing staff ignored his severe appendicitis symptoms for four days.
PILP Advocates for Woman Sexually Assaulted at ICE Detention Center with Documented History of Abuse
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) has filed a formal complaint under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) against the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (MVPC), alleging that an immigrant woman detained since November 2024 has been subjected to sexual abuse by the facility chaplain, Mark Melhorn.
PILP Sends Advocacy Letter to York County Prison Over Lack of Disability Accommodations
PILP Advocates on Behalf of Man Experiencing Racist and Homophobic Slurs at SCI Pine Grove
ACLU Urges Appeals Court to Reverse Dismissal of Case Challenging Deprival of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder
The American Civil Liberties Union, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed their opening brief in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to reverse the dismissal of a case challenging the deprival of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
SCI Muncy Staff Sued for Failing to Protect Woman from Near Daily Sexual Assault
The Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (PILP) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Miranda Barbour due to a horrifying pattern of relentless sexual assault, harassment, and stalking against her by a parole agent Kenneth Jones, while Ms. Barbour was incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Muncy (“SCI Muncy”). The lawsuit also details numerous times where security and other staff at SCI Muncy failed to intervene or take action to protect Ms. Barbour from the sexual abuse.