- Dec 14, 2022
BLH Client Testifies Before Senate About Sexual Abuse in Federal Prisons
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee heard testimony from BLH Client Brianne Moore, who was repeatedly assaulted by an official at a women’s prison in West Virginia who threatened to block a transfer to a facility closer to her family if she resisted. Read more about her testimony in the New York Times. Contacts: David Rankin Regina Powers
- Dec 8, 2022
Emergency Request Filed to Stop City's Unconstitutional Mental Health Involuntary Removal Policy
Emergency request filed in ongoing class action litigation to reform the City's mental health crisis response and stop routine abuses A broad coalition of public interest groups and people with mental disabilities filed an emergency request to immediately halt New York City’s new policy to greatly expand coerced transport to psychiatric hospitals of people perceived to have “an inability to meet their basic needs.” The motion for a temporary restraining order is brought in o
