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JAIL CONDITIONS
Muhammad v. Coughlin

1:91-cv-06333 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 1991

On September 19, 1991, an inmate member of the Nation of Islam (NOI) brought a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against the New York City Department of Corrections (NYC) for violations of his religious freedoms. The inmate brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the First Amendment, and state law. In June 1993, the court (Judge Loretta Preska) appointed a private law firm to repres…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Stevens v. CA Youth Authority

2:01-cv-00675 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 4, 2001

Closed Date: 2003

On April 4, 2001, nine youths in custody of the California Youth Authority ("CYA") filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the CYA in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. The youths, represented by both private counsel and counsel from the Disability Rights Advocates, sought injunctive and declaratory relief under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the Americans with Disability Act (42 U.S.C. § 12131), the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794) and the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Mayweathers v. Newland

2:96-cv-01582 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 20, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On August 20, 1996, Muslim state prisoners housed at the California State Prison at Solano (Solano) filed a class action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The plaintiffs, representing themselves, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated their First Amendment rights to free exercise of their religion, as wel…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gartrell v. Ashcroft

1:01-cv-01895 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Sept. 7, 2001

Closed Date: April 11, 2003

Rastafarian and Muslim inmates from the District of Columbia who were housed at Virginia correctional facilities filed a class action lawsuit challenging Virginia Department of Corrections' policies prohibiting long hair or beards on inmates. The inmates were represented by Hogan and Hartson and the American Civil Liberties Union. The inmates, who sued the District of Columbia, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), alleged that the BOP's decision to house them at V…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Weir v. Nix

4:91-cv-30463 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1991

On August 5, 1991, a fundamentalist Christian inmate incarcerated in the Iowa State Penitentiary, in Fort Madison, Iowa, filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against prison authorities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The prisoner alleged that various prison policies infringed on his religious freedom. Specifically, he complained that the prison only employed a Protestant pastor, offered just three hours o…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Combs v. Corrections Corp. of America

1:95-cv-02029 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 1995

On November 13, 1995, seven individual inmates housed in the Winn Correctional Center near Winnfield, Louisiana filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, pro se, against Louisiana corrections officials for restricting their religious freedoms. The inmates alleged that they were denied the right to participate in Native American religious gatherings and that they were denied the use of items sacred to their religion such as pipes, feathers, drums, and a sweat …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Helbrans v. Coombe

1:94-cv-08662 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1994

Closed Date: 1995

On December 1, 1994, an inmate at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York filed a lawsuit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000b, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, an Orthodox Hasidic Jew, alleged that his constitutional rights had been violated by the prison system's regulations regarding the removal of facial hair, which were in contention with his re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jolly v. Coughlin

1:92-cv-09026 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 1992

Closed Date: 2000

On December 15, 1992, a Rastafarian inmate at the Southport Correctional Facility in Pine City, New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. §2000b, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated his constitutional rights by s…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Marria v. Broadus

1:97-cv-08297 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Nov. 10, 1997

Closed Date: 2004

On November 10, 1997, an inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, New York, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that his constitutional rights ha…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cutter v. Wilkinson

2:97-cv-00382 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 3, 1997

Closed Date: 2009

Beginning on April 3, 1997, three prisoners in the state of Ohio filed separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Ohio Department of Corrections. Each of the plaintiffs claimed that his constitutional right to practice his religion, which was protected by the newly enacted Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), had been violated during his incarceration. The defendants argued that RLUIPA was unconst…