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PRISON CONDITIONS
Bownes v. Washington

2:14-cv-11691 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: April 28, 2014

An incarcerated individual in the custody of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) filed this lawsuit on April 28, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, against the Director of the MDOC and the general dentist of the MDOC (in their official capacities). MDOC policy detailed that a person became eligible for routine dental care only after being incarcerated for two years. The plaintiff claimed that t…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
B. (PS) v. Aber

1:25-cv-02763 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 3, 2025, Plaintiffs, women who were once in custody at the La Plata County Jail, all of whom are over the age of eighteen, filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. According to their complaint, at Defendant La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith’s direction, every woman entering the La Plata County Jail is forced to strip naked and endure visual and physical penetration on camera. Allegedly…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Monroe v. Precythe

2:23-cv-04129 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 27, 2023

Closed Date: July 18, 2025

[This summary is in progress while we research the case.] This case is about a transgender inmate who died of HIV complications while being placed in solitary confinement by the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Injunction Granted

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Smith v. The State of Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles

1:15-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 11, 2015

Closed Date: April 26, 2018

On December 11, 2015, a pro se individual filed suit against the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, alleging that it discriminated against him due to his race and denied restoration of his voting rights. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Alabama and assigned to Judge William H. Steele. The pro se plaintiff originally sued the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. The plaintiff sought to have his vo…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Johnson v. Prince George's County

8:17-cv-02867 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 2018

This is a case about the alleged violations of the Maryland Election Law Article, Maryland Constitution, and United States Constitution. Plaintiffs were unregistered but eligible voters and residents of the County of Prince George’s, State of Maryland, and citizens of the United States who were being detained in the Prince George’s County Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs brought this case against defendants Prince George’s County Board of Elections, the Maryland State Board of Elections an…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Caron v. Coppinger

1:25-cv-11075 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 23, 2025

This is a lawsuit seeking opt-out testing and direct acting antiviral treatment for people with Hepatitis C in the custody of the Essex County Sheriff's Department (ECSD). On April 23, 2025, two individuals with Hepatitis C in ECSD custody filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging that the Department routinely withheld direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusu…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. City of New York

1:25-cv-04084 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 24, 2025

This case is about New York City’s alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement through its sanctuary city policies. On July 24, 2025, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The United States sued the City of New York and its Mayor; the New York City Council and its Speaker; the New York City Department of Correction and its Commissioner; the New York City Department of Probation and its Commissioner; and the New York City…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. Noem

2:25-cv-00747 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This class action lawsuit challenges conditions at a temporary immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades. Built in June 2025, the facility consists of tents, trailers, chain-link fencing, and barbed wire, with a capacity of at least 3,000 people. It is surrounded by wetlands populated with alligators and venomous snakes. President Trump publicly stated that detainees would “learn how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” adding that “…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

PRISON CONDITIONS
Amos v. Hall

4:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Jan. 14, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2023

On January 14, 2020, this putative class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on behalf of prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. The suit arose after the publication of an open letter dated January 9 from Jay-Z to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs were represented by lawyers affiliated with Team ROC, the social justice wing of the J…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Lang v. Taylor

4:20-cv-00030 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 25, 2020

Closed Date: March 1, 2022

This is a case about conditions in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Parchman is Mississippi's only maximum security prison and houses over 2,600 prisoners. The case is a "sister case" to, and was eventually consolidated with, Amos v. Hall, (N.D. Miss 4:20-cv-00007), another case about prison conditions at Parchman. Both cases were supported by rapper Jay-Z through Team ROC, the social justice arm of his entertainment company Roc Nation. These cases were filed separately, with lit…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)