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JAIL CONDITIONS
Benjamin v. Horn

1:75-cv-03073 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 24, 1975

This case was consolidated for enforcement purposes with Ambrose v. Malcolm; Detainees of Queens House of Detention v. Malcolm; Detainees of Brooklyn House of Detention for Men v. Malcolm; Maldonado v. Ciuros; Forts v. Malcolm; and Rosenthal v. Malcolm. The summary below includes all of these in the consolidated form, but more information about each individual case is included in the "Related Cases" section. On June 24, 1975, a group of pretrial detainees at Rikers Island Detention Center for M…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Shain v. Ellison

0:96-cv-03774 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 29, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On July 29, 1996, a previous pretrial detainee at the Nassau county Correctional Center (NCCC) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the County Sheriff, an unnamed assistant district attorney, and a family court judge alleging excessive use of force, unconstitutional strip search, false arrest, abuse of process, and malicious prosecution. He also sought a declaration that New York State Family Court Act § 155(2) which allo…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Illinois

1:92-cv-00694 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 1992

Closed Date: Feb. 14, 1996

On January 28, 1992, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents at the W.A. Howe Developmental Center pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. against the State of Illinois and W.A. Howe Developmental Center in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The DOJ alleged that the defendants deprived residents of the facility of their constitut…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Martin v. Ellandson

4:73-cv-10229 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 1973

Closed Date: 2000

On September 28, 1973, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Director of Iowa Adult Corrections and the Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiff, who represented himself, alleged violations of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiff complained the prison library offered inadequate legal materials and…
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
Rentschler v. Schriro

4:94-cv-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 2, 1994

Closed Date: 1997

On March 2, 1994, inmates at the Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The inmates alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding and inadequate medical care, with the specific complaint that the prison intentionally used contaminated medical supplies, denied inmates pain medication, and had no physical therapy depart…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Humanists of Washington v. Lehman

3:97-cv-05499 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 1997

Closed Date: 2004

On August 7, 1997, the Humanists of Washington and the National Prison Project of the ACLU filed a § 1983 claim against the Washington Department of Corrections [DOC] in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging restrictions on prison regulations regarding inmate mail. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief.Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. That motion was denied by the District Court (Judge Franklin D. Burgess) on February 2, 1998.There…
POLICING
In re Cincinnati Policing

1:99-cv-03170 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 30, 1999

Closed Date: 2009

On April 30, 1999, Bomani Tyehimba, an African-American male, filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio alleging that he was subjected to a racially discriminatory stop, search and detention by officers of the Cincinnati Police Department [CPD]. That suit was initially styled Tyehimba v. City of Cincinnati, (99-cv-00317-SJD-MRM). Tyehimba was represented by private counsel and counsel the ACLU.On December 13, 2000, Tyehimba move…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
American Council of the Blind v. O'Neill

1:02-cv-00864 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 3, 2002

In 2002, the American Council of the Blind and two individuals with visual impairments filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States under § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs challenged the Treasury Department's failure to make paper banknotes that are independently usable by persons who are blind or visually impaired and sought declarat…