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JAIL CONDITIONS
Cong v. Foti

2:99-cv-00663 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1999

Closed Date: Aug. 4, 2000

This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case was filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana on November 6, 1998 by private counsel on behalf of thirteen Asian immigrant detainees of the Orleans Parish Prison.The suit alleged that correctional officers beat the plaintiffs and conspired with non-immigrant incarcerated people to fight them in 'staged gladiatorial contests.' Along with the § 1983 claim, the plaintiffs simultaneously filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to require defendants to allo…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Horton v. Williams

3:94-cv-05428 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1994

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2001

On August 11, 1994, juvenile plaintiffs filed a § 1983 civil rights class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (Tacoma), challenging conditions of confinement at the Green Hill School (GHS). Plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for the National Center for Youth Law Columbia Legal Services and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.Plaintiffs amended their Complaint on August 17, 1994. Defendants moved to dismiss, which was denied by the District …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Illinois Department of Corrections

1:97-cv-03475 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 7, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On May 7, 1997, an inmate of the Joliet Correctional Center sued the Illinois Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for alleged violations of 42 USC 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. Specifically, the plaintiff, who had been declared legally blind since incarceration, alleged that the defendants had denied him access to the Center's library, as it contained no books on tape, Braille materials, or …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams & U.S. v. Lynn

3:92-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 2, 1992

Closed Date: 1999

On August 8, 1989, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. On May 13, 1991, the DOJ issued a findings letter to the Governor of Louisiana, detailing the following allegedly unconstitutional conditions at the prison: failure to provide adequate medical and mental health care, failure to provi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Michigan

2:97-cv-71514 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 10, 1997

Closed Date: 2007

On May 27, 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Crane Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Michigan and the Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth, Michigan (medium security prisons for women) pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The state refused to allow the DOJ access to the prisons to conduct an investigation, and declined to negotiate with the DOJ or resolve the al…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections

2:96-cv-71416 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 27, 1996

Closed Date: April 25, 2007

On March 27, 1996 women prisoners at Scott Correctional Facility and Florence Crane Facility in Michigan filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected to a pattern and practice of sexual harassment and abuse as a result of the Michigan Department of Correction's (DOC) failure to train properly and discipline its staff. Defendants moved to dismiss. The district court (Judge John Corbett…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Roe v. Fauver

3:88-cv-01225 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 11, 1988

Closed Date: 1998

On March 11, 1988, plaintiff, a female New Jersey inmate, filed a lawsuit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Rehabilitation Act, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging her segregation and confinement in the St. Francis Medical Center due to her AIDS diagnosis. Plaintiff was represented by attorneys of the Public Advocate/Public Defender, Department of the Public Advocate for New Jersey and sought declaratory and injunctive relief.In her initial complaint, pla…
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Keyes v. School District No. 1

1:69-cv-01499 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 30, 1969

Closed Date: 1997

Keyes--the Denver school desegregation case--was the first northern school desegregation case to reach the Supreme Court, and one of the only cases where the Supreme Court identified segregation in northern schools. The Supreme Court’s 1973 opinion was influential in defining “intent” in de facto segregation. The case lasted for decades, so this summary is necessarily partial. Prior to the filing of this lawsuit on November 30, 1969, the Denver School Board adopted three resolutions between Jan…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Roberts v. County of Mahoning

4:03-cv-02329 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2003

Closed Date: May 17, 2010

On November 14, 2003 Ohio inmates filed this class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Of Ohio, alleging that the conditions of confinement at the Mahoning County Justice Center ("Justice Center") and the Minimum Security Jail ("MSJ") violated their constitutional rights. The plaintiffs alleged that they were subjected severe overcrowding and corresponding deprivations. They sought equitable and declaratory relief.On March 5, 2004, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Richardson

1:05-cv-01168 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 7, 2005

Closed Date: July 6, 2007

This case challenged a correctional facility's religious programming as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. On November 7, 2005, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc., along with several individual members of the organization who were New Mexico taxpayers, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against the New Mexico Corrections Department and the Correction Corporation of America (CCA), a private contractor paid to run the N…

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