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JAIL CONDITIONS
Goldsby v. Carnes

4:72-cv-20122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1972

This case involves a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail.On January 3, 1973, the District Court John W. Oliver, Jr. issued a memorandum opinion and order, approving the Consent Decree entered into by the parties. Goldsby v. Carnes, 365 F.Supp. 395 (W.D.Mo. 1973). In his opinion, Judge Oliver chronicled the increase of prisoner litigation and the challenges…
POLICING
CODING IN PROCESS
DOJ Investigation of Phoenix Police Department

No Docket | No Court

Filed Date: 2021

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a pattern and practice investigation into the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. According to the announcement, the investigation, initiated under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, will examine whether the City and the Department violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment of citizens or the 1964 Civil Rights Act an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Patchette v. Nix

4:90-cv-80230 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 24, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On October 11, 1989, prisoners from the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Iowa State Penitentiary's Warden and the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, represented by court-appointed counsel, alleged that prison overcrowding produced conditions that made incarceration cruel and unusual punishment and that new visitation policies and pract…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Abdul Wali v. Coughlin

6:84-00379 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 19, 1984

This case is part of the Clearinghouse's special collection on the Attica Uprising. In September of 1971, incarcerated people in New York's Attica Correctional Facility took control of the prison and took several staff members hostage. The uprising ended when state police violently stormed the prison, killing over 40 incarcerated people and staff members. Attica was one of the most significant events in the American prisoners' rights movement and drew public attention to poor conditions in pris…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pyles v. Kamka

1:79-01864 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1979

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 1980

On October 4, 1979, a deaf Maryland prisoner filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, against officials of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Plaintiff, who was represented by the National Association of the Deaf Legal Defense Fund, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants failed to provide sign language interpreters to prisoners. On February 27, 1980, the District Cou…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
In re The National Board of Medical Examiners

DJ# 202-16-181 | No Court

Filed Date: 2011

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2014

A medical student with dyslexia filed a complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) violated Title III the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA) and its implementing regulation in NBME's administration of United States Medical Licensing Examine (USMLE). Specifically, the student alleged that the USME improperly found that he did not prove that he had a disability within the meaning of the ADA…
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
Frazier v. Donelon

2:72-00814 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: March 20, 1972

Closed Date: Feb. 12, 1975

In 1972, inmates of the Jefferson Parish Prison in Louisiana filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by prison policies regarding censorship of their mail, visitation rights, access to religious services, access to the telephone, and access to sexually explicit reading materials.The parties entered into mediat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bel v. Hall

1:73-01654 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: May 25, 1973

Prisoners at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by poor sanitation, insufficient heating, and inoperable shower facilities. On March 24, 1975, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge Wendell Garrity) held th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Langton v. Hogan

1:79-cv-02167 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 1979

Closed Date: 1997

On October 30, 1979, William Langton and David LeBlanc, inmates at the Southeastern Correctional Center of Massachusetts, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging that state prison officials violated their constitutionally protected rights by intercepting and monitoring their telephone calls to counsel and other private calls. The inmates' telephone access was restricted while they were held in the maximum security area of the pris…