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.

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.