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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.B.H. v. Knox County

4:24-cv-04096 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 28, 2024

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the use of solitary confinement in juvenile detention facilities. Named plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. On May 28, 2024, an individual plaintiff, a 17-year-old boy who is currently detained at MDH, filed this lawsuit against the Mary Davis Detention Home (MDH). The plaintiff alleged that children at MDH spend the majority of their time in solit…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
A.A. v. Buckner

2:21-cv-00367 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 20, 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research the case) On May 20, 2021, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Children's Rights, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the state's Department of Human Resources (DHR) on behalf of four teens with mental disabilities placed unnecessarily in or at risk of segregation in pyschiatric residential treatment facilities. 
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe 1 v. State of Tennessee

3:24-cv-00777 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee children with disabilities allege that the State of Tennessee subjected children with disabilities to cruel and abhorrent treatment in Tennessee’s self-described “hardware security” juvenile detention facilities. The primary plaintiffs in this case are three Tennessee children with disabilities (specifically mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and behavior disorders) who have lived in Tennessee's juvenile justice facilities. The other plaintiff is Disability Right…
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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.G. v. Kern County

1:18-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2018

Closed Date: May 20, 2024

This is a case about alleged abuse and failure to provide education to youth with disabilities detained at juvenile detention facilities in Kern County, California. Plaintiffs, represented by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates, sued Kern County, the Kern County Probation Department, the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, and two individual officials. They alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), the Individual…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Juan F. v. Rell

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

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 1989

Closed Date: April 15, 2023

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…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights Mississippi v. Forrest County, Miss.

2:11-cv-00053 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: March 27, 2011

On March 27, 2011, Disability Rights Mississippi (the Protection and Advocacy organization for Mississippi) filed suit against Forrest County in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Plaintiff, represented by counsel from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson, alleged violations of three separate Protection and Advocacy acts: the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Individuals with Mental Illness Act, and the Individual Rig…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Oklahoma

4:06-cv-00673 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 2006

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 2011

On December 15, 2006, the United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the state of Oklahoma and its officials and subgroups responsible for operation of the L.E. Rader Center ("Rader") juvenile detention facility. The complaint, as amended on May 4, 2007, alleged that the defendants (1) denied Rader's residents their rights to protection from harm from staff, from other residents, and from imp…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Alabama Foster Care System

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This is an investigation concerning allegations of systemic discrimination in the education of children with emotional and behavioral disabilities within Alabama's foster care system. On October 12, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported the findings of its investigation of the State of Alabama, including its Department of Human Resources and the State Department of Education, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The findings letter focused in particular on …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe 1 v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety

1:24-cv-00017 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 8, 2024

Case Ongoing

This is a case about solitary confinement of juveniles. On January 8, 2024, three incarcerated juvenile individuals filed a class action suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The plaintiffs sued North Carolina's Department of Public Safety (DPS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel and the Council for Children’s Rights, they seek declaratory and injunctive relief and attorney’s fees. They challenge DPS's practice of solitary confin…