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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Puerto Rico

3:99-cv-01435 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: April 21, 1999

On May 15, 1996, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent notice to the Governor of Puerto Rico that it was conducting an investigation into the conditions of confinement at Integral Services ("CIS") in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, pursuant to its authority under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. CIS was one of six state-operated residential facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities in Puerto Rico. The DO…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Glover v. Johnson

2:77-cv-71229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 19, 1977

Closed Date: 2002

On May 19, 1977, five named and several unnamed female prisoners at the Detroit House of Corrections filed this class action against the Michigan Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Urban Law, Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services, and Michigan Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated their constitutional rights by failing to…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rose v. Jividen

5:22-cv-00405 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 2022

On September 21, 2022, two men, one currently and one formerly incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) in West Virginia, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. They sought to represent a class of individuals imprisoned in SRJ facilities, which housed both pre-trial and sentenced individuals. They sued the former commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitations (WVDOC), the former warden fo…