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CHILD WELFARE
David B. v. McDonald

1:79-cv-01662 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 25, 1979

Closed Date: 1998

On April 25, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, on behalf of a class of children in Cook County, Illinois, who were either wards of the juvenile court or had petitions for wardship pending, and had emotional, physical, or mental disabilities. The plaintiffs represented by the Cook County Public Guardian alleged that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCSF), the Illinois Department of Mental Health and D…
CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Rooks & U.S. v. Herring

1:92-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 23, 1992

Closed Date: 1998

On April 23, 1992, inmates at the Conecuh County Jail ("Jail") in Evergreen, Alabama filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Alabama Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the Southern Center For Human Rights, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages for the alleged inhumane conditions of confinement they were subjected to at the Jail. The case wa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Love

4:70-00201 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1970

On September 30, 1970, five inmates of the Pulaski County, Arkansas, jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the county sheriff, jail superintendent, and county judge. The plaintiffs, represented by legal services attorneys, sought declaratory judgment, injunctions and "other appropriate relief," citing a list of twenty areas of concern, including over-crowding, insufficient number of guards to protect the in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Gila County

2:98-cv-02269 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1998

Closed Date: 2003

On March 7, 1994, the Mexican Consul, Nicolas Escalante, wrote the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona (Janet Napolitano), complaining of poor conditions in the Gila County jail in Globe Arizona. He had been to the jail at the request of a number of Mexican citizen inmates. The U.S. Attorney's Office referred the matter to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which opened an investigation into two jails in Gila County, one in Globe and the other in Payson Arizona. Pursu…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Allen v. Henderson

Docket No. Not Available | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In approximately 1984, a child incarcerated at a jail of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the Division of Public Safety of the Navajo Tribe. In a Consent Decree filed in the District Court of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, dated January 28, 1985, the court enjoined the Tribe from incarcerating juveniles under age 18 in jails where adults were housed. The Decree further required the defendants to submit a plan for a juvenile detention facility to t…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. San Diego

3:91-cv-00764 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 1991

Closed Date: 1996

On June 5, 1991, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking an injunction barring San Diego County from denying the DOJ full access to the San Diego jail system. The DOJ sought to conduct a preliminary investigation for violations of constitutional rights under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On July 22, 1991, the District Court (Judge John Rhoades) determined that the county's attempts to use sta…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. County of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Sheriff [USDOJ CRIPA Case]

2:15-cv-05903 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2015

On June 6, 1996, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Los Angeles County that it intended to investigate conditions in the Los Angeles County Jail system (the Jails) pursuant to the Civil Rights of the Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In August of 1996, the DOJ toured the Jails with correctional mental health experts. The investigation found that the Jails were failing to provide care meeting constitutional standards to mentally ill inmates. On September 5, 1997, the DOJ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
People v. McOwens

No. C006755 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1989

This case is a challenge in California state court of pre-sentence custody time credit for a criminal defendant, following a federal court decree concerning work time credits for certain inmates.In the earlier case (whose title we do not know), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California (JC-CA-017). The consent decree provided that in order to maintai…
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Branson v. Winter

A020323 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: March 27, 1981

On March 27, 1981, a prisoner at the jail in Santa Clara County, California, appearing before a state judge to plead guilty to grand theft, handed the judge a petition for habeas corpus, challenging the conditions of confinement which were alleged to include overcrowding and inhumane conditions. The Santa Clara County Superior Court (Judge Bruce Allen) invited a local public interest lawyer, at the Public Interest Law Foundation, to convert the case to a class action and represent the prisoners…