Court Cases

Denying medication for addiction treatment in correctional settings is both unsafe and unlawful.

The ACLU is seeking justice for a young woman denied medical care in state custody.

Denying medication-assisted treatment to incarcerated people with opioid use disorder is both unsafe and unlawful.

It is unsafe and unjust to sentence someone to more time in order to “help” them recover from a substance use disorder.

We are seeking justice for thousands of wrongfully convicted individuals in second Massachusetts drug lab scandal.

Seeking answers on whether the more than 24,000 defendants whose cases were tainted by Dookhan should have their convictions vacated.

Sonja Farak may have tainted thousands of drug cases, on top the 24,000 cases tainted by ex-chemist Annie Dookhan.

We are asking the Supreme Judicial Court to affirm that in cases involving mitigating facts, such as Mr. Laltaprasad’s case, judges have both statutory and constitutional authorities to sentence below the minimum.

These defendants were convicted of assault and battery on the basis of diagnoses of Shaken Baby Syndrome--but since the mid-1980s, studies have been published that cast doubt on the theory that SBS can only result from shaking.