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PRISON CONDITIONS
Caswell v. Horton

4:23-cv-01380 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about the alleged callous indifference exhibited by corrections officers to an incarcerated woman during the course of her high-risk pregnancy, particularly the failure to provide needed medical care and basic accommodations.  On October 13, 2023, a private plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Alabama, Middle Division. She sued Etowah County, the Etowah County Sheriff, the Etowah County Chief of Administration, Doctors’ Care Physicians…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Terrill v. Oregon

6:21-cv-00588 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 20, 2021

Closed Date: July 1, 2024

This lawsuit, which resulted in a settlement agreement, addressed whether incarcerated people in Oregon have to pay for certain medical equipment. A person incarcerated at the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on April 20, 2021. Defendants were the State of Oregon and the Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODC). Plaintiff had a lower leg amputation. He had received a prosthesis while incarcerated. To pay f…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

Case Ongoing

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Coleman v. Brown

2:90-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 1990

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a class action for California prisoners with mental illness. After a three-judge court denied a motion for a prisoner release order as premature, plaintiffs sought relief before a single district judge. Relief has been achieved to an extent. The defendants have continued to comply with the broader injunction while staying mindful of the public health demands of the pandemic. In particular, the parties have been able to reach agreements concerning quarantine and isolati…
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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) in West Virginia, 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 housed both pre-trial and sentenced individuals. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the former warden fo…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority

2:20-cv-00410 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2024

After a two-year investigation initiated in December 2016 under CRIPA and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Notice on December 19, 2018 concluding that the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority (“HRRJ”) failed to provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care to incarcerated peoples and placed people with serious mental illness in restrictive housing for prolonged periods of time. The DOJ also concluded that HRRJ’s …
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West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Alabama

2:15-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2013, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent notice to the Alabama Department of Corrections that it would be conducting an investigation of the Julia Tutwiler Prison. The investigation sought to address allegations that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse by prison staff in violation of their constitutional rights; allegations that the prison failed to report and prevent sexual abuse; and allegations that the prison failed to provide adequate mental health an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
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, a formerly incarcerated individual filed a putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff alleged negligence by Microgenics Corporation and its parent company, Thermo Fischer Scientific Corporation. The plaintiff sought to represent “all persons who obtained positive testing results for Suboxone/buprenorphine generated by Indiko Plus urinalysis analyzers while in the New York State Department of Corrections and …