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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 …
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
Mathis v. Henderson

80-07779 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: July 7, 1980

On July 7, 1980, prisoners of the state of New York filed a lawsuit under Article 78 of the New York Corrections Rules and Regulations against the New York State Department of Corrections in the New York Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, who were represented by Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, alleged that their rights had been violated by the unconstitutional deprivation of "outdoor exercise." The plaintiffs, who who were permitted to exercise outside of their cells for at least one hour e…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Kozlowski v. Coughlin

1:81-cv-05886 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 1981

On September 22, 1981, New York state inmates filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Prisoners Legal Services of New York, asked the District Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the visitation procedures at the state prisons. On March 22, 1982, the U.S. Distric…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hurley v. Coughlin

1:77-cv-03847 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 1977

In 1977, Michael Hurley filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), seeking to enjoin state correctional officers from routinely subjecting him to a strip frisk search in the absence of probable cause to believe that he has concealed contraband in his body. Plaintiff was represented by Prisoners' Legal Services of New York. The court (Judge Robert Lee Carter) granted the …
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
Kosilek v. Spencer

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

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: March 31, 2015

On December 12, 2000, a transgender inmate 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 Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The inmate sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging violations of her constitutional rights and immu…
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…