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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Aguilar v. Mitchell

2:77-cv-00254 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1977

On September 9, 1977, a juvenile detained at the juvenile detention center in the Walla Walla County Courthouse, in Washington, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington against state judges, county commissioners, and administrators of Court Services of Walla Walla County. The class consisted of all juveniles who had been confined in the juvenile detention center since 1975, who were confined in the detention center at the tim…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
T.S. v. Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc.

1:16-cv-08303 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 2016

Case Ongoing

This case involved claims arising from a juvenile detention center being used for a television show. Two children previously detained in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) filed this class action lawsuit on August 24, 2016. Defendants included numerous Fox entertainment companies (collectively “Fox”); Cook County, Illinois; the Chief Judge of the District Court of Cook County; and various officials connected to JTDC. The complaint was brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and f…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
USA v. Youth Services International, Inc.

1:06-cv-01760 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 11, 2006

Closed Date: July 28, 2006

A deaf juvenile resided in a Maryland juvenile correctional facility operated by a contracting corporation, Youth Services International, Inc. ("YSI"). YSI operated this facility and over a dozen more, in several states. The juvenile communicated via American Sign Language ("ASL") for in-person communications, but the facility did not provide sign language interpretation services in its educational, recreational, and rehabilitative programs. YSI did not provide auxiliary aids or services to …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Brian B. v. Stalder

3:98-cv-00886 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1998

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

In this case, private plaintiffs filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana to challenge conditions of confinement at the Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth (Tallulah). Plaintiffs were represented by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Youth Law Center. The Amended Complaint, filed in October 1998, alleged claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; the Individuals with Disabilities Education Ac…
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Casey A. v. Darline P. Robles

2:10-cv-00192 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2010

Case Ongoing

Three people formerly incarcerated at Challenger Memorial Youth Center, a juvenile detention center in Lancaster, California, brought a purported class action on January 12, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California to challenge the educational services provided at Challenger. The plaintiffs alleged that Challenger provided constitutionally inadequate educational services to incarcerated youths.  The plaintiffs originally brought claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
DOJ Investigation of Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility

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Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2010

On October 25, 2010, the Special Litigation Section of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced that it was commencing an investigation into the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility (“Walnut Grove”) in Mississippi (“the State”). Walnut Grove was a 1,500 bed prison that housed children and men aged 13 to 22 in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC). According to the DOJ report, the population of Walnut Grove more than tripled between 2001 and…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Juan F. v. Rell

2:89-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 1989

Case Ongoing

This class action brought by children placed in Connecticut's Department of Children and Youth Services (DCYS) was filed on December 19, 1989, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union. They sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the state to redress deficiencies in the child welfare system, claiming that the state violated the Adoption Assistanc…
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Mary & Crystal v. Ramsden

3:77-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1980

On May 27, 1977, Mary, a resident of the Goodland State Camp (a Wisconsin juvenile correctional institution), brought a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § § 1983 and 1988 against the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, the Administrator of the Division of Corrections, and the Superintendent of Goodland State Camp. She was joined in her lawsuit by Crystal, another resident, in October, 1977. The plaintiffs, filing in The United States District Court for…
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State of New Jersey in the Interest of J.J.

11-02357 | New Jersey state trial court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2012

J.J. (whose name is protected because of his juvenile status) was adjudicated delinquent in December 2010, in New Jersey, and committed to the custody of the Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) for a period of 4 years. His conduct would have amounted to first degree robbery, if he had been adult; he was eighteen at the time of adjudication, but younger at the time of the offense. He was housed first in a training school, and then in a medium security juvenile facility. He had some run-ins invo…
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Meehan v. State of New Hampshire

New Hampshire state trial court

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action civil rights lawsuit alleged abuses at a New Hampshire youth detention center, the Youth Detention Center (YDC), in the 1990s. An alleged victim of that abuse filed this suit on January 11, 2021 against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, YDC, the state Division of Juvenile Services, the state Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and hundreds of individual defendants. The plaintiff was represented by the private law firm Rilee & Associates and the …