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Coomer v. Noel

4:22-cv-00079 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: June 21, 2022

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case.) This case is about an incident at the Clark County jail in Indiana, where multiple incarcerated women were subjected to a "night of terror" when some detained men gained access to their cells.
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Prison Legal News v. Berkeley County Sheriff

2:10-cv-02594 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2010

Case Ongoing

On October 6, 2010, the Prison Legal News filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for South Carolina under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Berkeley County. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, claiming that the defendants' unlawfully censored and excluded the plaintiff's books and magazines protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments, which are sent to individual subscribers in custody at the …
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Rutherford v. Block

2:75-cv-04111 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 9, 1975

On February 9, 1975, prisoners represented by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the practices and conditions of confinement at the Los Angeles County Central Jail (the "Jail"). On December 31, 1975, the District Court certified the class.Following a 17 day trial on the matter and unannounced jail inspections by the Court, the District Court (Judge William P. Gray) entered an orde…
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Howard v. Williams

2:20-cv-01389 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 2020

(This is a temporary summary, while we research the case.) This is a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of people with psychiatric disabilities incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail alleging the jail failed to provide adequate mental health care and discriminated against people with psychiatric disabilities.
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Grottano v. City of New York

1:15-cv-09242 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 23, 2015

Closed Date: March 19, 2018

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United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United State Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Those staff in turn failed to su…
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Schaffer v. Alameda County

3:06-cv-00310 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 2006

Case Ongoing

On January 17, 2006, Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging Alameda County's policies and practices concerning strip searches in Alameda County jails. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that he was subjected to a group strip search prior to arraignment and in the absence of any reasonable suspicion of contraband or weapons. Plaintiff alleged that such a practice violat…
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McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Case Ongoing

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Emery Celli, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of reaso…
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Estate of Prasad v. County of Sutter

2:12-cv-00592 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 6, 2012, the mother and minor children of a pre-trial detainee who died in jail from an infection filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Sutter under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; represented by private counsel, they asked the court for monetary relief. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants violated their father's substantive due process rights and the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishme…
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Garcia v. Ocean County

3:07-cv-05665 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2007

Case Ongoing

On November 28, 2007, five arrestees, proceeding through private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in order to challenge the blanket strip search policy of the Ocean County Correctional Facility. The named plaintiffs alleged that they were all arrested for misdemeanor or petty crimes and, upon their admission to the jail, were strip searched pursuant to the unconstitutional blanket policy of strip searching every pr…