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JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

JAIL CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Precythe

2:23-cv-04129 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 27, 2023

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

[This summary is in progress while we research the case.] This case is about a transgender inmate who died of HIV complications while being placed in solitary confinement by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

JAIL CONDITIONS
Saddozai v. Davis

5:18-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2018

This case involved allegations of excessive force by a correctional officer. On September 11, 2018, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against a correctional officer in San Quentin State Prison under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Originally filing pro se, the plaintiff alleged that he was attacked by other incarcerated individuals when the defendant correctional officer intervened by shooting the plaintiff se…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hope v. Harris

9:18-cv-00027 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

On February 16, 2018, a prisoner housed in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at the Polunsky Unit within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas challenging the conditions of his confinement. The plaintiff filed suit against the prison’s Senior Warden, Major of Correctional Officers, Deputy Director of Support Operations, and Assistant Director of Classification, as well as three members o…

Case Is Ongoing

Reversed

PRISON CONDITIONS
Benning v. Dozier

5:18-cv-00087 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: March 9, 2018

This is a lawsuit brought by an incarcerated person after his outgoing emails were allegedly censored without any form of notification or an appeals process. On March 9, 2018, Plaintiff filed this lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections (“GDC”) Commissioner, as well as the official allegedly responsible for censoring inmate emails for the GDC, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. (The plaintiff initially represented himself, but was later represented by t…

Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. City of St. Louis

4:21-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 24, 2021

This case involves allegations of excessive force and conditions of confinement amounting to punishment, experienced by four pre-trial detainees. The original complaint was filed on May 24, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by three pre-trial detainees at City Justice Center (“CJC”). (A final amended complaint, naming all four plaintiffs, was filed on June 10, 2022.) All plaintiffs were detained at the CJC. The defendants in this lawsuit included the City of …

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending

POLICING
Archer v. City of New Orleans

2:21-cv-01079 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 3, 2021

This lawsuit involved the Louisiana Police Department's use of force and noxious gas at a protest on June 3, 2020, in light of George Floyd's death. On June 6, 2021, plaintiff, a Orleans Parish resident who was subject to excessive force by police officers, brought suit against the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), City of New Orleans, Mayor of New Orleans, Superintendent of the NOPD, Deputy Superintendent of the NOPD, Captain of the NOPD, a captain with the NOPD, a lieutenant with the NOPD…

Case Is Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Tellis v. LeBlanc

5:18-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2018

On February 20, 2018, several individuals incarcerated in extended lockdown at the David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC), represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Disability Rights Louisiana (the Protection and Advocacy organization in Louisiana), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the DWCC, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC), and individual employees in their official capacity. The plaintiffs brought this action under the Amer…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Gray v. Missouri Department of Corrections

16AC-CC00565 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2016

Closed Date: July 2, 2020

This case involves a claim filed against the Missouri Department of Corrections (“MDOC”) by an inmate in the MDOC system who was incarcerated as a minor. On December 27, 2016, plaintiff, a prisoner in the MDOC system, filed a lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections (“MDOC”) in the Circuit Court of Cole County. The plaintiff was incarcerated as a juvenile in 2009 and denied parole as an adult in 2016.  Represented by the MacArthur Justice Center at St. Louis, the plaintiff alleged…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Singleton v. Hamm

1:24-cv-01081 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2024

This is a putative class-action lawsuit about parole practices in Alabama. Three people incarcerated in Alabama filed this lawsuit on August 8, 2024, alleging that the Alabama Department of Corrections routinely incarcerated people past their release dates instead of releasing them on parole. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and private counsel, named ten defendants: current and past members of the Department of Correction’s Executive Leadership team, and cur…