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PRISON CONDITIONS
M.C. v. Jefferson County, New York

6:22-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: March 1, 2022

This case challenged Jefferson County’s policy of denying prescribed medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to non-pregnant individuals incarcerated at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility. This case was part of a broader trend of litigation expanding access to evidence-based treatment for incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder (Godsey v. Sawyer, Strickland v. George W. Hill Correctional Facility, Spurlock v. Wexford).  On March 1, 2022, M.C. and T.G., two individuals who we…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Walker v. Johnson

1:05-cv-00934 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 2005

Closed Date: June 18, 2009

On August 10, 2005, Darick Demorris Walker, a death-sentenced prisoner of the State of Virginia, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Virginia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Walker, who was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, complaining that the lethal injection procedures used by the defendants would violate his constitutional rights by subjecting him to a…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Affirmed

JAIL CONDITIONS
Butler v. Suffolk County

2:11-cv-02602 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 27, 2011

On May 27, 2011, twenty persons then confined in the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (SCCF), which consists of the Riverhead Correctional Facility (a medium/maximum security jail) and the Yaphank Correctional Facility (a minimum security jail), filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983. The lawsuit was filed pro se as a class action, on behalf of those individuals and all others similarly situated. The plaintiffs sought …

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

PRISON CONDITIONS
Kingdom v. Trump

1:25-cv-00691 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

President Trump issued Executive Order 14168 on January 20, 2025, just hours after taking office. Titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” the order mandated a categorical prohibition on federal funding for gender-affirming care and required the BOP to end all such medical treatments and accommodations for incarcerated individuals. Section 4(c) of the executive order explicitly barred any medical procedures, treatments, or…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Moe v. Trump

1:25-cv-00653 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 6, 2025

This case challenged the Trump Administration's implementation of an Executive Order targeting transgender individuals by denying them legal recognition under federal law. The plaintiff, a transgender woman incarcerated in federal prison, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plaintiff sought emergency declaratory and injunctive r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Aguilar Contreras v. Trump

5:25-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 20, 2025

This case challenged President Trump's Executive Order 14168, which targeted transgender individuals and prohibited gender-affirming care in federal prisons. EO 14168 redefined the term "sex" to mean the sex assigned to an individual at birth, rather than an individual's gender identity. Pursuant to this order, prison officials denied transgender prisoners clothing and underwear that matched their gender identity, assigned guards of the opposite gender to search trans prisoners, refused gender-…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Padres Unidos de Tulsa v. Drummond

5:24-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 23, 2024

This case challenges Oklahoma House Bill 4156 (H.B. 4156), enacted in April 2024, which established the crime of “impermissible occupation” and authorized Oklahoma law enforcement to arrest individuals for being present in the United States without legal authorization. Notably, the bill did not provide a defense for people currently seeking asylum, other humanitarian protection, or any other relief available under federal law. On May 23, 2024, Padres Unidos de Tulsa, an advocacy organization co…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Pennington v. Taylor

2:19-cv-00695 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

On September 19, 2019, attorneys from the Juvenile Law Center and Southern Poverty Law Center––representing plaintiffs who, as children, were tried and convicted as adults––filed this lawsuit against Alabama's Attorney General, the Secretary of Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and others in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Plaintiffs alleged that the state's Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Act (SORNA) was an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Oliver

1:25-cv-04470 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 2025

This is an ongoing case challenging Georgia state law, SB185, a law that prohibits the provision of hormone therapy and other forms of healthcare for gender dysphoria in GA state prisons.  On August 8, 2025, five transgender people incarcerated in Georgia filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and all individuals incarcerated in the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) who were seeking or receiving gender dysphoria treatment. The plaintiffs sued the Commissioner of GDC, the Assistant Comm…

Case Is Ongoing