The Lewisburg Prison Project sends the information and resources below to people incarcerated across the country. You can download these resources by clicking the links below, and you can download the form here.
LPP Legal Bulletins
4.1 Rights of Pre-Trial Detainees
7.2* Las Condiciones de Reclusión
ACLU Know Your Rights Fact Sheets
104.5 Environmental Hazards and Toxic Materials
106.0 Pregnancy-Related Health Care
108.2 Disciplinary Sanctions and Punishment
108.3 Medical, Dental, and Mental Health Care
108.4 Assault and Excessive Force
108.6 Prison Litigation Reform Act
109.0 Rights for Transgender People
Handbooks and Manuals
This Handbook is a resource for prisoners who wish to file a federal lawsuit addressing poor conditions in prison or abuse by prison staff. It also contains limited general information about the American legal system. This Handbook is available for free to anyone: prisoners, families, friends, activists, lawyers and others.. Published by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild (2010).
The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual (JLM) is a handbook of legal rights and procedures designed for use by people in prison. The JLM informs prisoners of their legal rights and instructs them about how to secure these rights through the judicial process, clearly explaining legal research techniques and how to read legal documents. Incarcerated people may use the JLM to address specific problems related to their treatment in prison, or to attack their unfair convictions or sentences.It is is written and updated by members of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2020).
Intended for people who are or were incarcerated in the Third Circuit (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the US Virgin Islands). Written by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (2013)
Bureau of Prisons Resources
Books & Publications
PA Department of Corrections
Links & Resources