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Jane Jones v. Annucci

1:16-cv-01473 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2016

Case Ongoing

On February 25, 2016, six women prisoners in the custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, anonymous by request, sued various DOCCS officials in their official capacity under 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming violations of their Eighth Amendment rights. The plaintiffs were represented by The Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project and by pr…
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Wright v. Corrections Corporation of America

1:00-cv-00293 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2000

Case Ongoing

On February 16, 2000, private attorneys, a public defender, and counsel from the D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project filed this 42 U.S.C § 1983 putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of incarcerated persons, their family members, legal counsel, and other recipients of telephone calls from prisoners housed in prison facilities operated by the defendant private corporation, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA—the largest operator of private …
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Steele-Warrick v. Microgenics

1:19-cv-06558 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2019, formerly incarcerated individuals filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation and deliberate indifference towards incarcerated individuals’ constitutional rights by current and former employees of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). Represented by Prisoner…
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Greenhill v. Clarke

7:16-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 10, 2020

On February 19, 2016, the plaintiff, a Muslim person incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison, filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, alleging a violation of his right to free expression. He sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and several of its employees, individually and in their official capacities, under 48 U.S.C. § 1983, the Declaratory Judgment Act, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). H…
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Human Rights Defense Center v. Inch

9:21-cv-81391 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2023

The Human Rights Defense Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human rights in U.S. detention facilities, filed this lawsuit on August 10, 2021. The plaintiff filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Florida Department of Corrections (Department of Corrections) and the warden of the Everglades Correctional Institution (Everglades). The presiding judge was Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks. The plaintiff alleged that Departmen…
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Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
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Rose v. Jividen

5:22-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

On September 21, 2022, two men, one currently and one formerly incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail (SRJ), filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. They sought to represent a class of individuals imprisoned in SRJ facilities, which house both pre-trial individuals and those who have received their sentences. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the form…
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Judd v. AT&T

00-2-17565-5 SEA | Washington state trial court

Filed Date: June 20, 2000

Closed Date: June 21, 2013

On June 20, 2000, individual plaintiffs brought this putative class action in the Superior Court of Washington for King County against five telephone service provider companies. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, were recipients of intrastate and interstate collect telephone calls from incarcerated individuals in the State of Washington's prisons, where the six telephone companies provided "0+" operator-assisted service to incarcerated people wishing to call people outside the pris…
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Allen v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

1:19-cv-08173 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 2, 2019, 18 prisoners filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs sued the New York Department of Corrections (NYDC) and a group of its doctors under 42 U.S.C § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendment. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought damages, attorneys' fees, and an injunction against the defendants' practices and conditions for which this suit was brought. The plaintiffs also requested certification …
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Ruiz v. Estelle

4:78-cv-00987 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: June 1, 1972

Closed Date: June 17, 2002

This was a prisoner led class action which broadly challenged conditions and practices within the Texas state prison system. Issues covered included overcrowding, inadequate healthcare, unsafe working conditions, inadequate access to the justice system, and severe and arbitrary disciplinary procedures. The plaintiff’s 1980 trial victory was followed by over two decades of appeals and negotiations which culminated in numerous consent decrees. As one of the longest running prisoners' lawsuit in U…