Resource: Dorn v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al.

By: Lambda Legal

November 12, 2018

Lambda Legal

On November 12, 2018, Lambda Legal and Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service announced the successful settlement of a 2015 lawsuit filed on behalf of John Dorn against the Michigan Department of Corrections. Mr. Dorn’s settlement with the MDOC includes substantive changes to the MDOC policy directive that allowed disproportionate punishment of incarcerated people living with HIV without adequate justification, an MDOC review and reconsideration of other individuals who were classified to administrative segregation under the former policy, and a monetary settlement.

https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/dorn-v-michigan-department-of-corrections