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Supreme Court denies case involving prolonged confinement without exercise

Over the objections of its three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from a prisoner confined for years without the chance to exercise outside his cell.

The Washington Post

Liberal justices object as Supreme Court rejects prisoner’s exercise claim

"We are saddened to live in an era where imposing such cruelty — let alone on a person known to suffer from mental illness — is acceptable to any federal judge." — Daniel M. Greenfield

NBC News

The Supreme Court Should Have Heeded Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Wisdom

Punishment that causes durable impairments of the punished person’s brain surely violates the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.”

The Washington Post

The Supreme Court should have heeded Ketanji Brown Jackson’s wisdom

Petitions – Johnson v. Prentice

In a cert petition, the MacArthur Justice Center has asked SCOTUS whether punitively depriving a prisoner in solitary confinement of virtually all exercise for three years notwithstanding the absence of a security justification violates the Eighth Amendment.

SCOTUSblog

UCLA Law and MacArthur Justice Center launch prisoners’ rights partnership

MacArthur Justice Center attorneys Daniel Greenfield and Megha Ram join Professor Aaron Littman as co-instructors of UCLA Law’s Prisoners’ Rights Clinic.

Pro Bono Innovators 2022 Honoree: MacArthur Justice Center

In its inaugural issue of Pro Bono Innovators, Bloomberg Law honors the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center for its work successfully clarifying the issue of qualified immunity in cases before the US Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Bloomberg Law

How The Prison Litigation Reform Act Has Failed For 25 Years

The Appeal

Landmark Rulings Show ‘Untapped Potential’ of State Courts To Advance Civil Rights

"Increasingly, there’s a feeling among civil rights litigators and other lawyers and organizations interested in challenging the criminal legal system that the focus has been on federal courts for too long, and that there’s another potent tool that ought to at least be tried," said MJC's Daniel Greenfield.

The Appeal

Philly man held in solitary confinement 33 years must be let off death row, court rules

Ernest Porter, MJC's client, is finally free from one of the longest recorded solitary confinement stints. He endured 33 years in a 7-by-12-foot cell.

The Philadelphia Inquirer