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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
K.L.W. v. James

2:04-cv-00149 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: April 13, 2004

Closed Date: Dec. 2, 2004

This is a lawsuit challenging the attorney visitation policy and legal assistance program at Columbia Training School, a rehabilitative facility for juvenile offenders placed in the custody of the state of Mississippi. The named plaintiff, a developmentally disabled child incarcerated in Columbia, filed a putative class action suit on April 13, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against the prison's administrator, the Executive Director of the Mississippi D…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Case Ongoing

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
United States v. South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice

3:22-cv-01221 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 14, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the alleged constitutional violations of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (the “Department of Juvenile Justice”) against the children in their custody at the Broad River Road Complex. These violations include not preventing fights among youths, staff harming children by using excessive force (such as choking, punching, kicking, and twisting arms), and isolating youth for minor indiscretions. On April 14, 2022 the United States, represented by attorneys from…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
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 …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
DOJ Investigation of Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility

No Court

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
J.H. v. Hinds County

3:11-cv-00327 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 1, 2011

Case Ongoing

On June 1, 2011, a child imprisoned at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi against Hinds County, Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that the county's confinement policies and practices violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged excessive confinement in cells, inadequate menta…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Brown v. Precythe

2:17-cv-04082 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: May 18, 2017

Case Ongoing

This class-action litigation was filed on May 18, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. An amended complaint was filed on June 8, 2017. In the lawsuit, four named plaintiffs challenged the Missouri Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) parole procedures for juveniles sentenced to life without parole before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which held that mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
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
CRIPA Investigation of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department

N/A | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

On October 13, 2021, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced that it had opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in five secure juvenile correctional facilities run by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The investigation was intended to determine whether Texas provided children reasonable protection from excessive use of restraints, excessive use of isolation, and physical and sexual abuse by staff and other residents. It also examined whether Texas provided a…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
R.J. v. Bishop

1:12-cv-07289 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Case Ongoing

On September 12, 2012, youth confined in facilities operated by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against the IDJJ. The plaintiffs, represented by counsel from the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that systemic IDJJ conditions, services, and treatment violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Th…