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PRISON CONDITIONS
Kosilek v. Spencer

1:00-cv-12455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On December 12, 2000, a transgender person who was incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correction Institute in Norfolk filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Filing pro se, the plaintiff sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (the "DOC"), the Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The incarcerated person sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Jones v. Stanford

1:20-cv-01332 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: March 12, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit about whether the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) can ban individuals required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) from accessing social media and the internet. On March 12, 2020, six people required to register under SORA filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where it was assigned to District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. The plaintiffs sued the Chairwoman of the New Yor…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abdul Wali v. Coughlin

6:84-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 19, 1984

This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditions in pris…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cardew v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

6:21-cv-06557 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 30, 2021

Case Ongoing

On August 30, 2021, four plaintiffs represented by Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York (PLS) filed a class-action lawsuit against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and various prison officials. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that DOCCS routinely confiscated people’s mobility aids, like wheelchairs and canes, even if they were issued by DOCCS at other facilities. The complaint also alleged that DOCCS refused …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Jones v. Wolf

1:20-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: March 25, 2020

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: Immigration detainees held by ICE, each being over the age of 50 or having a serious underlying condition, petition the court for protection due to COVID-19. The court granted a temporary restraining order to the most vulnerable petitioners, as defined by the CDC, which grants selected petitioners protection through social distancing by single celling and PPE. The order was amended to require the defendants to post informational signage and to test vulnerable detainees bi-week…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Inmates of New York with HIV v. Cuomo

9:90-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 6, 1990

Closed Date: 2009

On March 6, 1990, a class of inmates infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ("HIV") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against the New York Department of Corrections ("DOC") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, challenging the DOC's delivery of medical, mental health, education, and preventative services. Plaintiffs, who were represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project Legal Aid Society, the New York State Department of Labor, and Prisoners' Leg…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Corris v. Koenigsmann

9:15-cv-01205 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2015

Closed Date: May 6, 2016

On October 7th, 2015, an inmate with Hepatitis C filed a civil rights action against the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). The lawsuit was filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. The complaint asserted defendants' deliberate indifference to plaintiff’s serious medical needs violated his 8th and 14th Amendment rights. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants failed to provide appropriate care a…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Disability Advocates, Inc. [DAI] v. New York State Office of Mental Health

1:02-cv-04002 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 28, 2002

Closed Date: 2007

On May 28, 2002, Disability Advocates, Inc., along with other public interest groups, filed a civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of state prisoners with mental illness. The complaint alleged that the New York State Office of Mental Health [OMH] and the New York State Department of Correctional Services [DOCS] were deliberately indifferent to the serious mental health needs of state prisoners with mental i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cookhorne v. Fischer

12-01791 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2012

Case Ongoing

On November 22, 2011, the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision sentenced the plaintiff, a 17-year-old prisoner, to four years in solitary confinement following a disciplinary hearing for allegedly assaulting a correctional officer. In solitary confinement, the prisoner was allegedly deprived of phone calls, packages, commissary, and good time credits for four years, and was confined in a small cell for 23 hours a day. Prisoners' Legal Services of New York subsequently fi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Langley v. Coughlin

1:84-cv-05431 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 31, 1984

On July 31, 1984, female inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections and several individual defendants (including the Unit Chief, the Chief of Mental Hygiene, the Superintendent of BHCF, the Fire Safety Officer, and the Deputy Superintendent for Programs) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Prisoners' Legal Services of New Yo…