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INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Homeward Bound v. Hissom Memorial Center

4:85-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 2, 1985

Closed Date: 2007

On May 2, 1985, Homeward Bound, Inc. filed a class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma against the Hissom Memorial Center and various state agencies. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of 600 individuals with intellectual disabilities, most of whom were children, who were incarcerated in Hissom Memorial in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Homeward Bound was represented by private attorneys and attorneys from the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelph…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendmen…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights v. Department of State

1:25-cv-01774 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 5, 2025

This case challenged the series of agreements between the Department of State and El Salvador by which El Salvador agreed to accept individuals from the United States and to hold them in detention facilities. This agreement was made on February 3, 2025. Secretary of State Rubio explained that President Bukele of El Salvador “has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, and house them in his j…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

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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

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)

JAIL CONDITIONS
Saddozai v. Davis

5:18-cv-05558 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2018

This case involved allegations of excessive force by a correctional officer. On September 11, 2018, a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against a correctional officer in San Quentin State Prison under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Originally filing pro se, the plaintiff alleged that he was attacked by other incarcerated individuals when the defendant correctional officer intervened by shooting the plaintiff se…
PRISON CONDITIONS
S.L. v. United States of America

4:23-cv-06517 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 18, 2023

Closed Date: March 18, 2025

This is one of dozens of individual suits filed by women currently or formerly incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin (FCI Dublin), a minimum-security women’s prison in Dublin, California, alleging sexual abuse by prison employees. The facility, which had become known as the “rape club,” was shut down by the federal government in 2024 after eight employees, including the former warden, were charged with sexually abusing inmates over a number of years. In this case, a woman form…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)