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PRISON CONDITIONS
Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections

2:20-cv-00007 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: May 6, 2019

On May 6, 2019, twelve prisoners at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge supermax prisons, who had each been in solitary confinement for between two and twenty-three years, filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The plaintiffs sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and the wardens of both Red Onion and Wallens Ridge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 19…

Case Is Ongoing

JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Menocal v. The GEO Group, Inc.

1:14-cv-02887 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2014

On October 22, 2014, current and former civil immigration detainees housed at the Aurora Detention Facility filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiffs sued The GEO Group, Inc., a private company that provides detention and correction services under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) 18 U.S.C. § 1589, and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by several public interest law firms, sought monetary damages. The plaintiffs alle…

Pending in Supreme Court

PRISON CONDITIONS
Palmigiano v. Garrahy

1:74-cv-00172 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 1974

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2014

On 01/11/2007, six inmates in the "awaiting trial" section of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island (ACI) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated because …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Kennedy v. Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice

1:24-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2024

This is a case about a juvenile facility with allegations of abuse and neglect in Kentucky. Named plaintiffs, two juvenile individuals held at Adair County Youth Detention Center (ACYDC), filed a class action against the ACYDC, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), and various DJJ officials in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The DJJ officials included its Commissioner, Executive Director of Of…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Disability Rights South Carolina v. Richland County

8:22-cv-01358 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

This case challenges conditions for pretrial detainees who have serious mental illness. This case was filed by Disability Rights South Carolina (DRSC) against Richland County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on April 28, 2022. Filing on behalf of incarcerated individuals, DRSC alleged that the dangerous and inhumane pre-trial detention practices at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center violated Due Process, Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bell v. Little

2:22-cv-01516 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 2022

This is a case about inmates at the Fayette County state prison who alleged that they had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in the form of solitary confinement. On October 27, 2022, the plaintiffs, 47 inmates who were part of the Security Threat Group Management Unit (STGMU) with mental illness conditions, filed this complaint forma pauperis in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs filed suit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ secretary, former secretary…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Alabama

2:20-cv-01971 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This case involved alleged unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s men’s prisons. On December 9, 2020, the DOJ filed this lawsuit in  the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Alabama Department of Corrections under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)(42 U.S.C. §1997). The DOJ alleged that the conditions of the prisons violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, following an investigation that found poor conditions and deliberate indiffer…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Alexander v. Hall

4:20-cv-00021 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2025

On February 10, 2020, fourteen prisoners at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, filed this putative class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Press reports connected this sue to entertainment mogul Jay-Z, who had the month before written an open letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant decrying the conditions at state correctional facilities. The plaintiffs claimed that state officials were aware of and deliberately indi…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

PRISON CONDITIONS
Davis v. Baldwin

3:16-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: June 2, 2016

On June 2, 2016, a group of prisoners of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) filed this class-action lawsuit against the IDOC in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201. Represented by the Uptown People's Law Center and private counsel, the plaintiffs alleged that the IDOC housed them in “extreme isolation,” which the plaintiffs defined as segregation from the mainstream prisoner population…