Policy Reports | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

Learning from Civil Rights Lawsuits: A White Paper Series

Policies for Expanding Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in United States Prisons and Jails

Effective Communication with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, and Low Vision Incarcerated People

Criminal Justice Policies

Prison and Jail Grievance Policies: Lessons from a Fifty-State Survey

Criminal Justice Document Repository

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Series: Learning from Civil Rights Lawsuits: A White Paper Series

The Clearinghouse is developing white papers that explore promising practices and recommended policies based on the litigation materials in our collection. Each white paper focuses on a different criminal justice related topic, offering guidance for litigation and non-litigation reform paths. The white papers also demonstrate how to access and use cases and documents in the Clearinghouse.

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Project: Policies for Expanding Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in United States Prisons and Jails

By: Tessa Bialek, Managing Attorney, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse & Matthew J. Akiyama, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine

April 19, 2023

This project proposes model policies for scaling up Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and treatment in United States prisons and jails. It also collects and makes available litigation documents and other materials related to HCV testing and treatment in prisons and jails, including: settlement agreements; judicial opinions; expert and monitor reports; and existing HCV policies.

Photo: Annie Flanagan

Project: Effective Communication with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind, and Low Vision Incarcerated People

By: Tessa Bialek, Managing Attorney, and Margo Schlanger, Director, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

July 7, 2022

This project proposes model policies for jails and prisons to serve the needs of deaf, hard of hearing, blind, and low vision people in their custody and to comply with federal anti-discrimination law. It also collects and makes available litigation documents and other materials relating to prisoners with communication disabilities, including: settlement agreements; judicial opinions; expert and monitor reports; and existing prison and jail ADA/disability policies.

Series: Criminal Justice Policies

The Clearinghouse has collected criminal-justice-related policies and posts them here.

Photo courtesy of Ruth Morgan

Project: Prison and Jail Grievance Policies: Lessons from a Fifty-State Survey

By: Michigan Law Prison Information Project

October 18, 2015

This project was completed in 2015 is by a group of Michigan Law students. They collected, analyzed, and summarized prisoner grievance policies from 53 Departments of Correction (for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico), and the nation’s 12 largest metropolitan jails. Each policy itself—obtained via the web or by Freedom of Information Act requests—is available below. In addition, we post a 2006 set of links to grievance polices for every state prison system, and a number of jails, organized by state.

Project: Criminal Justice Document Repository

By: Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse