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U.S. v. Purvis

1:77-cr-00066 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1979

On June 27, 1977, Louis Wallace, an inmate at the Mobile County Jail in Alabama was shot and killed by jail staff during an escape attempt. On June 27, 1977, the United States filed a two-count indictment against jail officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama alleging violations of 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242. The first count was brought against all nine jail officials on grounds that they had conspired to kill an inmate attempting to escape in order to crea…
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Harrelson v. Elmore County

2:94-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 3, 1994

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1995

A paraplegic inmate filed a lawsuit on May 3, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the First, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, various state laws, and a consent decree (in some unnamed case, entered 11/10/1992). The plaintiff alleged that he was denied use of his wheelchair, was not provided with toilet or shower facilities designed for disabled persons, was no…
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U.S. v. Crittenden County

3:89-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 13, 1989

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2001

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified the Crittenden County Jail ("Jail") of their intention to investigate conditions pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 on November 7, 1986. The Division released the findings of the investigation on June 1, 1987.The Division determined that the prisoners' access to medical care was grossly inadequate. Additionally, the report cited the lack of fire safety measures and the prese…
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United States v. Gila County

2:98-cv-02269 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1998

Closed Date: 2003

On March 7, 1994, the Mexican Consul, Nicolas Escalante, wrote the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona (Janet Napolitano), complaining of poor conditions in the Gila County jail in Globe Arizona. He had been to the jail at the request of a number of Mexican citizen inmates. The U.S. Attorney's Office referred the matter to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which opened an investigation into two jails in Gila County, one in Globe and the other in Payson Arizona. Pursu…
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U.S. v. Maricopa County

2:97-cv-02273 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 1997

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 1997

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Arizona officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on October 31, 1997, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action stems from an investigation authorized under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, as a result of allegations that poor conditions in the Maricopa County Jails (Jails) violated inmates' constitutional rights. The investigation was commenced on August 8, 1995, an…
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Allen v. Henderson

Docket No. Not Available | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In approximately 1984, a child incarcerated at a jail of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the Division of Public Safety of the Navajo Tribe. In a Consent Decree filed in the District Court of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, dated January 28, 1985, the court enjoined the Tribe from incarcerating juveniles under age 18 in jails where adults were housed. The Decree further required the defendants to submit a plan for a juvenile detention facility to t…
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U.S. v. San Diego

3:91-cv-00764 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 1991

Closed Date: 1996

On June 5, 1991, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking an injunction barring San Diego County from denying the DOJ full access to the San Diego jail system. The DOJ sought to conduct a preliminary investigation for violations of constitutional rights under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On July 22, 1991, the District Court (Judge John Rhoades) determined that the county's attempts to use sta…
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United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
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People v. McOwens

No. C006755 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1989

This case is a challenge in California state court of pre-sentence custody time credit for a criminal defendant, following a federal court decree concerning work time credits for certain inmates.In the earlier case (whose title we do not know), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California (JC-CA-017). The consent decree provided that in order to maintai…
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Osborn v. Manson

3:72-cv-15755 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: 1972

Five pretrial inmates of the New Haven Correctional Center in Connecticut filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Connecticut Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the length of their confinement and by conditions of their confinement in administrative segregation cells which had no running water and only covered buckets which were infrequently emptied, and by…