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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…
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Tate v. Kassulke

3:75-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1975

Closed Date: 2000

On January 30, 1975, the plaintiffs, inmates of the Jefferson County Jail (Jail), brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief with respect to alleged violations of their constitutional rights. The alleged constitutional violations included the lack of sanitary conditions, access to showers, access to recreation, vermin infested conditions, lack of medical attention, cruel beatings, unconstitutional reading of mai…
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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…
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Breaux & U.S. v. Phelps

6:77-00121 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 1977

Closed Date: 1981

On February 3, 1977, inmates at the Acadia Parish Prison filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to challenge their conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to redress the alleged deprivation of their civil rights. Shortly after the filing of the complaint, the District Court (Judge W. Eugene Davis) entered an order directing the defendants to allow the inmates free a…
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Lewis v. Parish of Terrebonne

2:86-02315 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: June 3, 1986

The wife and children of David Lewis, an incarcerated individual who committed suicide while in solitary confinement at the Terrebonne Parish Jail, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the parish in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs allege that Lewis's constitutional rights were violated by the jail's deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. Following a jury trial, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana …
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Strachan v. Ashe

1:79-02001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 1979

Closed Date: 1982

This was a § 1983 case filed by an incarcerated individual challenging the conditions of confinement in a hospital isolation cell in a county house of corrections. The plaintiff was incarcerated at the Hampden County House of Correction in Massachusetts. He was confined to a hospital isolation cell when he filed this action on October 2, 1979, and sought declaratory and injunctive relief, along with damages, against five defendants named individually and in their official capacities. The plain…
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Collins v. Schoonfield

1:71-cv-00500 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: May 7, 1971

In 1971, eight pre-trial detainees filed a complaint against the Wardens of Baltimore City Jail and members of the Board of the jail. All plaintiffs sought equitable relief and all but one sought damages as well. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (Judge Frank Kaufman) granted class certification and separated the equitable issues from the issues as to damages. The court addressed eleven equitable issues, including solitary confinement procedures, punishment for constitutio…
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Johnson v. Lark

4:71-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1971

Incarcerated people at the St. Louis City Jail in Missouri filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the city in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, alleged that their civil rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail, including overcrowding, sanitation and living conditions, discipline and procedures for solitary confinement, rules for mail and visitation, inadequate me…
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U.S. v. Tupelo City

1:94-cv-00312 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1994

Closed Date: Dec. 30, 2003

This was a case brought by the Justice Department against Tupelo City, Mississippi regarding the conditions at the Tupelo City Jail. Defendants included the City of Tupelo, the Mayor of Tupelo, the Chief of Police of Tupelo, and members of the Tupelo City Counsel, represented by Guy Mitchell III, the Tupelo City Attorney.The case was brought pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. An investigation was opened in May of 1993 focusing on allegations concerning security and s…
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Jones v. Diamond

1:74-03098 | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1973

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 1981

In 1974, inmates in Jackson County jail filed a class action under section 1983 in an attempt to reform nearly every facet of the conditions of the jail. Ten individual plaintiffs also sought damages for personal injuries. Plaintiffs were represented by counsel from the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The District Court in the Southern District of Mississippi dismissed as defendants individual members of the Board of Supervisors and denied class certification. Plaintiffs appe…