Case: In re Parish Prison [Jail] Populations

Many; see docket tab | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: 1981

Closed Date: 1997

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In re Parish Prison [Jail] Populations is a collection of the PACER dockets for about 100 cases filed in Louisiana federal courts pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge the conditions of confinement in parish and city jails through Louisiana. (Note: In Louisiana, county jails are called "Parish Prisons.") These cases worked their way through the federal courts for about three decades. Note that in Hamilton v. Morial, 644 F.2d 351 (5th Cir. 1981) the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered tha…

Note that in Hamilton v. Morial, 644 F.2d 351 (5th Cir. 1981) the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that all federal litigation against state, parish or local prison facilities, relating to population issues, be consolidated in the District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, in order to avoid courts entering inconsistent decrees. Thereafter, many Louisiana state, parish, and city facilities entered into consent decrees which specified population limits and officer-to-incarcerated person ratios. Since 1981, those facilities were under the judicial oversight of District Judge Frank J. Polozola of the Middle District of Louisiana. Over the years Judge Polozola revised the decrees to adjust population caps and officer-to-prisoner ratios as necessary.

The PACER dockets reflect that on August 4, 1994, District Judge Polozola ordered that all cases involving population caps for parish prisons be reopened and reconsidered. Most dockets note that the individual case was again closed in December, 1997.

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3:81-cv-00592	Docket (PACER) In re Sabine Parish	April 1, 1997	April 1, 1997 Docket
3:82-cv-00842	Docket (PACER) In re Morehouse Parish	April 1, 1997	April 1, 1997 Docket
3:94-cv-01040	Docket (PACER) In re Madison Parish	April 1, 1997	April 1, 1997 Docket
3:81-cv-00329	Docket (PACER) In re Lafourche Parish	April 1, 1997	April 1, 1997 Docket
3:94-cv-01039	Docket (PACER) In re Madison Parish	June 16, 1997	June 16, 1997 Docket
3:81-cv-00595	Docket (PACER) In re Beauregard Parish	Dec. 23, 1997	Dec. 23, 1997 Docket
3:81-cv-00601	Docket (PACER) In re Vernon Parish	Dec. 23, 1997	Dec. 23, 1997 Docket
3:82-cv-00836	Docket (PACER) In re Madison Parish	Dec. 23, 1997	Dec. 23, 1997 Docket
3:82-cv-00802	Docket (PACER) In re Avoyelles Parish	Dec. 23, 1997	Dec. 23, 1997 Docket
3:82-cv-00800	Docket (PACER) In re Assumption Parish	Dec. 23, 1997	Dec. 23, 1997 Docket

ECF Number	Description	Date	Link Date / Link
	CASE REFERRED to Mag. Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger (slh) (Entered: 08/10/1994)	Aug. 5, 1994	Aug. 5, 1994
	Set magistrate assignment. (slh) (Entered: 08/10/1994)	Aug. 5, 1994	Aug. 5, 1994
	This case relates to the housing of DOC prisoners in parish jail (slh) (Entered: 08/10/1994)	Aug. 5, 1994	Aug. 5, 1994
1	ORDER...clerk assign individual docket numbers to the facilities listed...pleadings filed as styled in order...all doc filed in these cases shall be docketed in the individual case numbers assigned to each facility and filed in its own file ( signed by Judge Frank J. Polozola ), issued notices. (slh) (Entered: 08/10/1994)	Aug. 5, 1994	Aug. 5, 1994
2	Basic Jail Guidelines (rgm) (Entered: 11/21/1994)	Nov. 18, 1994	Nov. 18, 1994
3	BASIC JAIL GUIDELINES (rgm) (Entered: 01/11/1995)	Jan. 11, 1995	Jan. 11, 1995
4	MOTION by DPSC In Satisfaction of its 3/21/95 order (rgm) (Entered: 04/24/1995)	April 21, 1995	April 21, 1995
5	Response to May 31, 1995 order (see order in 71-98 on 5/31/95) (dcar) (Entered: 06/21/1995)	June 15, 1995	June 15, 1995
6	MEMO To Richard Stalder from Venetia Michael RE: Basic Jail Guidelines monitoring report (hcj) (Entered: 03/15/1996)	Feb. 14, 1996	Feb. 14, 1996
7	MEMO to Venetia Michael from Angie Huff RE: Basic Jail Guidelines (hcj) (Entered: 03/15/1996)	Feb. 14, 1996	Feb. 14, 1996
8	ORDER...DeSoto Parish...all parish and local jails maintained by Hugh Bennett, Sheriff are released from the superv and jurisd of this court and the requirements to submit reports. ( signed by Judge Frank J. Polozola ), issued notices. (rgm) (Entered: 04/18/1997)	April 1, 1997	April 1, 1997
	**Set FRC Flag ..Record located at Federal Records Center in Fort Worth, TX (jh) (Entered: 07/31/1998)	July 31, 1998	July 31, 1998

Case: In re Parish Prison [Jail] Populations

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