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JAIL CONDITIONS
Bibb v. Montgomery County Jail

2:76-cv-00380 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1976

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 1992

In 1976 (according to the docket number), inmates of the Montgomery County Jail in Alabama filed a series of lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against state and county officials for constitutional violations in conditions at the jail, including overcrowding. The suits were consolidated and the parties entered into a consent decree that mostly vindicated the plaintiffs' claims. The district court (Judge Robert E. Varner) fou…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Brown v. Vann

2:77-00554 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 25, 1977

This was a desegregation suit filed against the Birmingham City jail. It also involved population reduction, sanitation, and other issues. An order for the plaintiffs was entered on April 18, 1978. We have no further information about the case.
JAIL CONDITIONS
Parrish v. Alabama Department of Corrections

3:79-cv-00301 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 21, 1979

Closed Date: 1999

On March 21, 1979, inmates filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, against jail officials of Lauderdale County, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. On November 29, 1982, the court (Judge Junius Foy Guin Jr.) entered an injunction prohibiting the defendants from housing state prisoners in the Lauderdale County Jail for more than 30 days, in order to alleviate overcrowding and associated health problems at the jail. …
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Mobile County Jail Inmates v. Purvis

1:76-cv-00416 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 1976

Closed Date: 1985

In 1976, inmates at the Mobile County Jail in Alabama brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against the Mobile County Commissioners under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that their conditions of confinement, specifically overcrowding, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Following litigation, on April 24, 1981, the court found that the conditions violated the inmates' due process rights and were also in violation of the Ei…
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Hart v. County of Alameda

3:79-00091 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 17, 1979

Clarence Hart, an applicant for employment as a group counselor with the Alameda County Probation Department (ACPD), brought suit under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. §§793-794, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that the ACPD refused to hire him based on his disability for discriminatory reasons. In addition, Hart alleged that the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, 31 U.S.C. §1242, prohibited discrimination by recipients of federa…
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Davis v. Roberts

8:96-cv-00682 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: April 8, 1996

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 1998

In 1975, litigation was initiated in the District Court for the Middle District of Florida to challenge the conditions of the Pinellas County Jail. The case, styled Davis v. Roberts, resulted in the Jail being placed under the oversight of the Court to rectify various constitutional violations. The Court appointed a monitor to review the conditions of the jail and to submit annual reports on the Jail's compliance. Dr. Linda Smith, who served as monitor during 1993 and 1994, issued a report no…
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Stroman v. Griffin

4:70-cv-02690 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 1971

In 1968, the District Court in the Northern District of Georgia issued a state-wide injunction requiring integration of all city and county jails and correctional facilities in Wilson v. Kelley, 294 F. Supp. 1005 (N.D. Ga. 1968). In 1970, two plaintiffs brought a civil rights class action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, complaining of segregation in the Chatham County Jail in violation of the Kelley injunction. The district court (Chief Judge Alexander Lawrence) he…
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Dorsey v. Adams

S03C1680 | Georgia state trial court

Filed Date: 1998

Closed Date: Nov. 10, 2003

People incarcerated in the DeKalb County Jail brought this suit in Georgia state court against the county, the sheriff, and others alleging inadequate medical care at the jail. Plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights. The parties settled; in 2001, the Georgia Superior Court in DeKalb County (Judge Fuller) entered a consent decree. Later that year, plaintiffs moved for a contempt judgment, and court granted the motion. The county appealed, and the Georgia Court of App…
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In Re: Jail Population (Avoyelles Parish (Avoyelles Bunkie Detention Center))

3:82-cv-00802 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 1982

Closed Date: 1997

On September 10, 1982, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana entered a consent decree in a case regarding the population caps at the Avoyelles Bunkie Detention Center in Avoyelles Parish, Lousiana. On August 4, 1994, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (Judge Frank J. Polozola) ordered that all cases involving population caps for parish prisons must be reopened and reconsidered.On February 27, 1997, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District…
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In Re: Jail Population (Bossier Parish)

3:82-00593 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 23, 1982

On September 10, 1982, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana approved a consent decree in this case concerning the jail population at the Bossier Parish Jail in Louisiana. On January 9, 1985, based upon reports entered by the Department of Health, office of the Fire Marshall and Department of Safety and Corrections, the court entered a modification of that consent decree, ordering that the maximum number of inmates to be housed in the jail's trustee dorm was 25 and the m…