Challenging the Riverside County Bail Process
Sandoval v. Riverside. In May 2025, individuals detained in Riverside County jails filed a class action lawsuit challenging Riverside…
Challenging pretrial detention practices in Oregon
In partnership with public defenders in Oregon, Civil Rights Corps is challenging Oregon’s longstanding practices of jailing people charged…
Challenging Pretrial Detention Practices in Maryland
Butler v. Prince George’s County. In 2022, CRC and partners filed a class action lawsuit challenging Prince George’s County’s…
Challenging the Los Angeles Bail Schedule
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles. CRC and co-counsel brought suit in California Superior Court in November 2022 on…
Challenging For-Profit Probation Scheme in Rutherford County
Rodriguez v. Providence Community Corrections. In September 2017, Civil Rights Corps announced a landmark settlement in a first-of-its-kind class…
Challenging Money Bail Practices in Calhoun
Walker v. City of Calhoun. In 2015, Civil Rights Corps and the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a…
Challenging the money bail system in Randolph County
Edwards v. Cofield. In 2017, Civil Rights Corps and partners filed a putative class-action lawsuit alleging that the money…
Challenging the money bail system in Cook County
Robinson v. Martin. Civil Rights Corps filed a historic challenge to the unconstitutional money bail system in Cook County,…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Ferguson
Fant v. City of Ferguson. In 2015, we filed a landmark challenge to the City of Ferguson’s conversion of…
Challenging the Money Bail Practices in Cullman County
Hester v. Gentry. In 2018, Civil Rights Corps and partners filed a lawsuit alleging that hundreds of people in…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Tulsa County
Feltz v. Regalado. In 2018, Civil Rights Corps filed a lawsuit challenging Tulsa County’s unconstitutional wealth-based pretrial detention system….
Ending the Fee-based Diversion Program in Maricopa County
Briggs v. Montgomery. In 2018, we filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Treatment Assessment Screening…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Oklahoma
Graff v. Aberdeen Enterprizes II, Inc. On November 2, 2017, Civil Rights Corps, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Cook County Jail
Mays v. Dart. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
Striking Down the Money Bail System in Louisiana
Caliste v. Cantrell. In 2017, Civil Rights Corps filed a landmark federal class action lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional money…
Challenging For-Profit Probation Scheme in Giles County
McNeil v. Community Probation Services. In 2018, five named plaintiffs sued Giles County, TN and two private probation companies…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Alamance County
Guill v. Allen. In November 2019, CRC filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three people locked in jail…
Striking Down the Money Bail System in California
Humphrey. In partnership with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Civil Rights Corps has filed and won numerous state…
Challenging the Money Bail System in Hamblen County
Torres v. Collins. We filed a major constitutional civil rights case alleging that the Hamblen County money bail system…
Challenging the money bail system in Harris County
ODonnell v. Harris County. In 2016, a single mom of two girls who was arrested for driving on a…
Dismantling Debtors’ Prisons in New Orleans
Cain v. City of New Orleans. In Louisiana, the judges who order and collect fines and fees from impoverished…
Challenging pretrial detention in Houston & Harris County
Hernandez v. City of Houston & Lomas v. Harris County. In 2016, Civil Rights Corps filed two class-action lawsuits…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Prince George’s County Jail
Seth v. McDonough. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
Challenging Money Bail Practices in Nevada
Valdez-Jimenez v. Eighth Judicial District Court. Working closely with the Clark County Public Defender’s Office, Civil Rights Corps challenged…
COVID-19: Fighting for Release & Better Conditions for People Detained in Oakland County Jail, Michigan
Cameron v. Bouchard. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., many of us protected ourselves by isolating…
Striking Down Unfair Bail Rules in Davidson County Criminal Court
Nashville Community Bail Fund (NCBF) v. Gentry. NCBF is a nonprofit that works to free people who are being…
Challenging the Money Bail & Pretrial Detention System in St. Louis
Dixon v. City of St. Louis. In 2019, Civil Rights Corps and partners brought a landmark challenge to the…
Challenging Debtors’ Prison Practices in Jennings
Jenkins v. City of Jennings. In 2016, Civil Rights Corps, in partnership with ArchCity Defenders and the Saint Louis…
Note: This map is non-exhaustive and represents a subset of Civil Rights Corps’ work