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- EIN 46-2132412
- info@alcenter.org
- (412) 654-9070
- PO Box 23032 Pittsburgh PA 15222 USA
- abolitionistlawcenter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Public Interest Law
Mission: Legal services & public interest law.
Programs: Solitary confinement - this program is aimed at holding prison officials accountable for the illegal and inhumane abuse of solitary confinement, and ultimately abolishing the practice entirely. Our work here is concentrated on litigating civil rights lawsuits for prisoners who have been abused by being held in solitary confinement. We had six cases during 2017.
political rights - this program aims to protect and broaden the speech rights of prisoners and the movement to end mass incarceration. We litigated one case in this program during 2017.
environmental & health rights - this program aims to expose the dangerously poor healthcare in the prisons, and to force prison authorities to improve it. It also aims to shutdown prisons that are built in areas that expose prisoners to environmental toxins that negatively impact their health. Our work here is focused on an investigation of a prison built next to a coal ash dump, contesting the sufficiency of an environmental impact statement for a proposed prison in kentucky, working to get hepatitis c positive prisoners cured, and working to improve health conditions at the allegheny county jail. We had four cases litigated as part of this program.