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JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of D.C. Jail v. Jackson

1:75-cv-01668 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1975

Closed Date: 2003

On October 7, 1975, post-trial detainees at the District of Columbia jail brought a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that various conditions at the jail were unconstitutional. The plaintiff class was represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. On May 24, 1976, the District Court (Judge William Benson Bryant) granted the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment by hold…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation, Pineville (LA)

3:04-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2004

Closed Date: 2007

On September 19, 1994, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) instituted an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Pinecrest Developmental Center in Pineville, Louisiana, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The investigation was instituted due to concerns that the constitutional rights of the residents at Pinecrest were being violated by abuse, neglect, inadequate medical care, inadequate psychiatric care, and failure…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Rights Equality Always at Letchworth v. Cuomo

1:84-cv-04163 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 13, 1984

Closed Date: 1991

On June 13, 1984, ten residents of the Letchworth Village Development Center (LVDC) in Thiells, New York, along with a parents/representatives organization called Rights, Equality Always at Letchworth, Inc. (REAL), filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of New York in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by t…
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
Armstrong v. Newsom

4:94-cv-02307 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 29, 1994

On June 29, 1994, eleven California state prisoners and parolees with disabilities filed this lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections—now the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”)—in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Represented by the Prison Law Office, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the CDCR had discriminated against them and all others similarly situat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. District of Columbia

1:88-cv-02897 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1988

On October 4, 1988, the District of Columbia announced that, due to overcrowding of its penal facilities, it would no longer accept newly sentenced prisoners into the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. On October 5, 1988, the United States filed a lawsuit under D.C.Code § 24-425 against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The US asked the district court for a temporary restraining order and for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleg…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Crawford

3:00-cv-00373 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: July 11, 2000

Closed Date: 2016

On 07/11/2000, Prison Legal News filed this suit in the District of Nevada. PLN sued the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) under 42 U.S.C. §1983. PLN, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project, asked the court for declaratory and permanent injunctive relief, prohibiting NDOC from engaging in further unlawful censorship of books, magazines and other correspondence from PRISON LEGAL NEWS, as well as damages. PLN claimed that NDOC’s censorship of PLN’s speech violated the First and Fou…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Helbrans v. Coombe

1:94-cv-08662 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 1, 1994

Closed Date: 1995

On December 1, 1994, an inmate at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York filed a lawsuit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000b, against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, an Orthodox Hasidic Jew, alleged that his constitutional rights had been violated by the prison system's regulations regarding the removal of facial hair, which were in contention with his re…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Native American Council of Tribes v. Solem

4:81-cv-04088 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota

Filed Date: June 1, 1981

Closed Date: 1983

On June 1, 1981, Native American inmates (members of the class defined in Crowe v. Erickson, No. 72-4101) filed suit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota against prison wardens. The plaintiff class sought enforcement of the settlement agreement entered in the Crowe case on May 4, 1977. The same day, the District Court (Judge Fred J. Nichol) denied the plaintiffs an injunction and dismissed the action saying that the complaint did not allege a constitutional violati…
POLICING
Rodriguez v. California Highway Patrol

5:99-cv-20895 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 3, 1999

Closed Date: 2006

On June 3, 1999, Plaintiffs, represented by ACLU, filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement ("BNE"), alleging a policy, pattern and practice of targeting African-Americans and Latinos in conducting stops, detentions, interrogations and searches of motorists as part of a federally financed drug interdiction program know as ``Operation Pipeline.'' The co…