Cases
NPTP uses litigation to hold states accountable and push parole systems towards being tools for decarceration. NPTP brings claims that enforce longstanding constitutional rights in parole revocation proceedings, ensuring that people have a fair chance to fight allegations that they’ve violated the terms of their parole before being sent back to prison. While in most states there is no enforceable right to be released onto parole, NPTP also brings innovative claims to enforce those limited rights where they exist.
Singleton et al v. Hamm et al.
Alabama
The Alabama Department of Corrections is routinely incarcerating people past their release dates instead of releasing them to parole supervision. In just the past four years, this has meant over 1,500 people have been held for a total of over 66,000 days of excessive detention. The MacArthur Justice Center, along with co-counsel from McGuire & Associates, Covington and Burling, and Kelly Guzzo, is fighting to hold Alabama officials accountable and uphold people’s right to go home to their families and communities when their sentences are over.
Fason et Al v. Hamlet et Al.
Arkansas
The Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board (PPTB) and the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) administer parole revocation hearings that blatantly violate the rights of Arkansans on parole, including the right to appointed counsel for qualifying low-income individuals. Thousands of people have been forced back into prison because of these unconstitutional proceedings. The MacArthur Justice Center’s National Parole Transformation Project, along with co-counsel from the ACLU of Arkansas and Latham & Watkins LLP, is fighting to return due process rights to Arkansans facing parole revocation and ensure that Arkansas officials fulfill their duty to appoint counsel at parole revocation hearings.
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