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JAIL CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Daviess County (KY)

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On March 24, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky (Center), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et seq. The DOJ sent notice to Judge-Executive Buzz Norris of the Daviess County Fiscal Court at that time. An additional notice letter dated June 19, 1997, expanded the investigation to cover not only the main jail, but three other related facilities--the E. Rober…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Thomas v. Kidd

3:90-cv-00104 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 3, 1990

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 1994

Plaintiff inmates, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina against officials at the Mecklenburg County, NC Jail ("Jail") on April 3, 1990 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that a variety of conditions violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. The parties negotiated a consent decree, which was approved by the court (Judge Robert D. Potter) on November 13, 1990.The consent decree ordere…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
D.J.R. v. Christean

2:82-00811 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 1982

On August 27, 1982, juveniles confined in the Salt Lake Detention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Second District Juvenile Court in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and other equitable relief, alleging that the defendants violated their rights to due process of law and equal protection of the laws. Specif…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Does v. Stewart

2:96-cv-00486 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 1996

Closed Date: 2002

Beginning in 1995, inmates in Protective Segregation (PS) status filed a series of lawsuits, pro se, to enjoin the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) from implementing a plan to screen its PS population for transfer to general population (GP) units. The lawsuits were brought under Section 1983 in the District of Arizona; they charged violation of the 8th amendment. In December 1995, the District Court for the District of Arizona stayed and consolidated the individual cases as Does v. S…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Toussaint v. McCarthy / Wright v. Enonmoto

3:73-cv-01422 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 1973

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 1997

In 1973, prisoners confined in administrative segregation in four California state prisons - San Quentin, Folsom, Dueul Vocational Institute at Tracy, and the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad - filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought relief on two claims: 1) that they had been placed in administrative segregation without any procedural …
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Nolasco v. Romer

1:90-cv-00340 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1990

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 1994

On Feb. 27, 1990, Colorado inmates filed a class action lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The inmates, represented by the ACLU of Colorado, the ACLU National Prison Project and private counsel, challenged the conditions of confinement, particularly overcrowding, in three Colorado state prisons. The three prisons were not included in the 1979 decision and remedial measures in Ramos v. Lamm prohibiting overcrowding in three Colorado facilities. The…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Weir v. Nix

4:91-cv-30463 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 1991

On August 5, 1991, a fundamentalist Christian inmate incarcerated in the Iowa State Penitentiary, in Fort Madison, Iowa, filed a lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act against prison authorities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The prisoner alleged that various prison policies infringed on his religious freedom. Specifically, he complained that the prison only employed a Protestant pastor, offered just three hours o…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Williams v. Lane

1:81-cv-00355 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1981

Closed Date: Sept. 28, 1998

In 1981, inmates in protective custody at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, with the assistance of Kirkland & Ellis, filed a class action suit in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against prison officials. The inmates sued under section 1983 and state laws for alleged violations of their first, eighth, and fourteenth amendment rights arising from the living conditions and institutional programs provided to those inmates in protective custody. In 1986, after le…