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Women in PrisonThe Women's Law Project has worked on a variety of projects to improve the conditions of women prisoners across the state of Pennsylvania, starting with the Beehler litigation that drastically altered the way women were incarcerated in Pennsylvania (Beehler v. Jeffes, 664 F. Supp. 931 M.D. Pa. 1986) and continuing to the present day. In the summer of 2005, the Women's Law Project teamed up with the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing LLP, and Gloria Gilman, Esq., to fight the undiagnosed and untreated spread of a drug-resistant staph infection (MRSA or Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) in the Philadelphia prisons that disproportionately affected women. The complaint was filed in June 2005 and settled shortly thereafter. |
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