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PRISON CONDITIONS
Winston v. Polis

2020CV31823 | Colorado state trial court

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Case Ongoing

On May 28, 2020, the ACLU of Colorado and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law sued the Governor of Colorado and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) for failure to protect medically vulnerable people in prison from COVID-19. Five named plaintiffs represented a class of "Medically Vulnerable Prisoners;" the proposed class consisted of current and future persons held by CDOC who were at a high risk of serious illness or death from C…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Saleh v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:05-cv-02467 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2005

Closed Date: July 31, 2012

This is a case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policies towards certain incarcerated Arab-Muslim men immediately in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. On December 7, 2005, the plaintiff brought this suit, pro se, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. He sued the U.S. Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff sought injunctive and declaratory relief to be transferred back to general population prison after he was placed i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ajaj v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:15-cv-00992 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 11, 2015

Case Ongoing

On May 11, 2015, a Muslim prisoner filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) and the Warden of Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Security Prison (“ADX”), where the plaintiff was incarcerated. Represented by the Civil Rights Clinic of the University of Denver-Sturm College of Law, the plaintiff brought his claims under Bivens and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (“RFRA”). He alleged…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Anderson v. State of Colorado

1:10-cv-01005 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 3, 2010

Closed Date: 2015

On May 3, 2010, a prisoner with mental illness incarcerated at a “supermax” facility in the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), the warden of the Colorado State Penitentiary, and the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. The plaintiff alleged violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Americans with Disabilities …
PRISON CONDITIONS
MoonShadow v. Raemisch

1:16-cv-01717 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: July 5, 2016

Closed Date: 2018

On July 5, 2016, plaintiff, a male-to-female transgender inmate incarcerated by the Colorado Department of Corrections [CDOC] who resided in a male facility, filed suit against the chief of psychiatry and the executive director of the CDOC for failure to provide her with appropriate undergarments and other items that were available exclusively to female prisoners in conformity with her gender identity, in spite of the fact that she was developing breasts as a result of her hormonal treatment. T…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Decoteau v. Raemisch

1:13-cv-03399 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2013

Closed Date: 2016

On December 17, 2013, prisoners currently or previously incarcerated in solitary confinement at Colorado State Penitentiary ("CSP") filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Colorado. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center and student attorneys from the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver College of Law, asked the Court to declare that CSP conditions violated …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sardakowski v. Clements

1:12-cv-01326 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: May 21, 2012

Closed Date: 2015

On May 21, 2012, an inmate who suffered from severe mental illness and had a developmental disability filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff, representing himself, sued the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC), claiming that the DOC's failure to provide him with adequate psychotropic medication was cruel and unusual punishment.On November 19, 2012, now represented by the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center, the plaintiff filed an …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Pugh

1:02-cv-01239 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: June 28, 2002

Case Ongoing

In this prison conditions case brought in 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, a federal prisoner in the U.S. Bureau of Prison's (BOP) Florence, Colorado Administrative Maximum (ADX) Detention Unit, claimed violation of First Amendment rights in his pro se federal tort claim against BOP officials. The defendants administered 28 C.F.R. 540.20, a BOP prison regulation restricting inmates from publishing articles under their bylines. The plaintiff, represented by the Univ…

[Court of Appeals] Opinion [Dismissing Appeal of District Court's Order Granting Summary Judgment to Defendants as to Plaintiff's Facial Vagueness Claim and Defendant's Qualified Immunity Defense]

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Sept. 21, 2005

Order Granting, in Part, the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss on Grounds of Mootness, and Denying the Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment

Jordan v. FBP

April 17, 2006

Order [Dismissing as Moot Plaintiff's Claims Relating to Past Application of 28 C.F.R. 540.20(b), Preserving First Amendment Claim Only]

May 1, 2006

Amended Order [Dismissing as Moot Plaintiff's Claims Relating to Past Application of 28 C.F.R. 540.20(b)]

May 23, 2006

Order Denying [Plaintiff's] Motion to Reconsider and [Defendants'] Motion to Dismiss [re May 2006 Orders]

Sept. 6, 2006

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