The ACLU of North Carolina, Disability Rights North Carolina, Emancipate NC, Forward Justice, and the National Juvenile Justice Network have filed a lawsuit today in Superior Court to ensure that the Governor and other public officials take further action to stop the deadly spread of COVID-19.

Coalition advocates for reduction in the number of people entering the criminal legal system and release of vulnerable people in prisons and jails to prevent a public health crisis

RALEIGH – Four people who have spent years locked in solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state’s use of the practice – in which people are held in cells no bigger than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to no human contact.

A federal court has ordered North Carolina to provide treatment for Hepatitis C, the most deadly infectious disease in the U.S., to three individual plaintiffs and to make treatment possible for all people who are incarcerated in state prisons and have been diagnosed with Hepatitis C.