Last year, I found the website of a law firm that handles prisoner rights cases nationwide (USA.) I believe they are located in Washington DC. If they take the case, they will fly a lawyer out to your state and work with a local lawyer to handle the case. Anybody know the firm or website? This is not the ACLU.
Can you tell us anything more about this organization? Was there a particular case you remember?
Basically it doesn’t make much sense to me. These type organizations generally run on a shoe-string budget so wouldn’t be able to afford flying attorneys out of Washington DC. The types of lawyers who deal with prisoner’s rights would be public defenders and legal clinics run out of law schools. Or are you talking about a high priced defense law firm?
Was it Wiley Rein? They do a lot of pro bono prisoner litigation. I’m 99% certain you are thinking of a nonprofit rather than a law firm though (possibly the Center for Prisoner Health & Human Rights at Brown law school.)