March 27, 2025
Gilbert is partnering with the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to represent a growing number of incarcerated individuals who are or were housed at the U.S. Penitentiary Lee (USP Lee) in western Virginia. These individuals have suffered physical and sexual assaults, prolonged use of inhumane restraints, racial and psychological abuse, and the withholding of prescribed and necessary medications and treatment by USP Lee staff.
Gilbert and the WLC have filed nine federal lawsuits in the Western District of Virginia on behalf of USP Lee residents in the past five years. In addition to holding those responsible for the abuse accountable, the lawsuits seek to improve conditions at USP Lee and to ensure that all residents at the facility are treated with dignity, humanity, and are provided with proper physical and mental health care, as required by the United States Constitution.