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Allen v. Henderson

Docket No. Not Available | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In approximately 1984, a child incarcerated at a jail of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the Division of Public Safety of the Navajo Tribe. In a Consent Decree filed in the District Court of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, dated January 28, 1985, the court enjoined the Tribe from incarcerating juveniles under age 18 in jails where adults were housed. The Decree further required the defendants to submit a plan for a juvenile detention facility to t…
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Brenneman v. Madigan

3:70-01911 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 1970

On September 8, 1970, five pretrial detainees filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, on behalf of themselves and all others awaiting trial in the Greystone section of the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center in California. The named defendants were the Sheriff and the members of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County where the facility was located. The plaintiffs claimed that conditions at the facility were cruel and unusual…
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Mercer v. Mitchell

4:74-00195 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1974

In 1974, a group of inmates filed a section 1983 class action suit, claiming that the Chatham County Jail was extremely overcrowded. Defendants agreed that the jail was overcrowded, and litigation abated during construction of a new jail. After completion of the new jail, inmates who remained in the old jail renewed their challenge to the crowded conditions of the old jail once again, and, in 1981, the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia (Judge Berry Edenfield) placed a tempor…
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Madison County Jail Inmates v. Thompson

1:79-cv-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 1980

In November of 1979, inmates at the Madison County (Indiana) Jail brought a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the county board of commissioners and the county sheriff, alleging that the conditions in the jail violated their constitutional rights. They were seeking declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages. On February 15, 1980, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (Judge William E. Steckler) entered judgment notwithstanding the ver…
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Fluhr v. Roberts

3:77-00332 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 20, 1977

A prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Kentucky filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that the county had unconstitutionally failed to provide access to legal research materials. The defendants agreed to make some legal library resources available at the jail, and the court (Judge Thomas Ballantine) found that to be sufficient, holding that since the average stay at the jail was only a week, the jail was not require…
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U.S. v. Grenada City

3:94-cv-00144 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 1994

Closed Date: 1997

On July 19, 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice notified the City of Grenada, Mississippi of its intention to investigate the conditions of the county jail. In October of 1993, the DOJ notified the Mayor of Grenada City of its findings and made recommendations regarding security and supervision; policies and procedures; exercise; access to reading materials; medical and mental healthcare; suicide prevention; sanitation; fire safety; personal hygiene items; and food service. On September 19, …
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Vazquez v. Gray

1:78-cv-04914 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 18, 1978

Closed Date: April 13, 2010

In 1979, inmates at the Westchester County Jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Westchester County Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. §1983. The plaintiffs claimed that conditions of overcrowding at the jail violated constitutional guidelines and placed a strain on all of the facilities, including medical, food service, law library, and recreation. The plaintiffs sought preliminary injunction concerning these condi…
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Zolnowski v. County of Erie

1:95-cv-00774 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 1995

Closed Date: 1998

On September 8, 1995, inmates at the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo, New York filed a pro se class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the New York State Commission of Corrections and representatives of the jail. The plaintiff class alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the jail. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as monetary damages.On October 3,…
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Phillips v. County of Bucks

2:98-cv-06415 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 1998

On December 11, 1998, women who were then or had previously been housed at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, against Bucks County and its officials, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as compensatory and punitive damages, for the County's failure to segregate inmates needing mental health treatment in a separate unit as was done in t…
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Lackawanna County ADA Investigation

No Court Case | No Court

A deaf inmate filed a complaint with the United States Department of Justice against the Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Sheriff's Department under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), alleging that the Sheriff's Department failed to provide him with a telecommunications device for the deaf ("TTD") upon his request while he was incarcerated in the Lackawanna County Jail. Following a Department of Justice investigation, the United States and the Lackawanna County Sheriff's …