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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
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On April 23, 2003, nine plaintiffs, acting through private attorneys, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the strip search policy of the City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF"). Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, under CCSF policy, all prisoners who were placed in the general jail population at the CCSF's jails were subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches, with those refusing to consent be…
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Price v. Jefferson County

3:91-cv-00144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 7, 1991

Closed Date: 2001

Inmates at the Jefferson County Corrections Department, represented by private attorneys, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on March 7, 1991, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that they were strip-searched by county corrections officials in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Corrections maintained an unconstitutional blanket policy to strip-search all arrestees regardless of …
JAIL CONDITIONS
John Does 1-100 v. Boyd

4:84-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 20, 1984

Four anonymous pretrial detainees brought a section 1983 action against the Dakota County Sheriff, complaining that the county jail's indiscriminate strip search policy was unconstitutional as applied to them and to similarly situated individuals, specifically pretrial detainees arrested for traffic offenses, regulatory offenses, bench warrants, and misdemeanors. On July 31, 1985, the District Court in Minnesota (Judge Harry MacLaughlin) granted plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment against …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Shain v. Ellison

0:96-cv-03774 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 29, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On July 29, 1996, a previous pretrial detainee at the Nassau county Correctional Center (NCCC) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the County Sheriff, an unnamed assistant district attorney, and a family court judge alleging excessive use of force, unconstitutional strip search, false arrest, abuse of process, and malicious prosecution. He also sought a declaration that New York State Family Court Act § 155(2) which allo…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of Milwaukee County Jail v. Petersen

2:70-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1970

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 1973

Pretrial detainees of the Milwaukee County Jail filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Specifically, they alleged that inadequacies in relation to medical care, recreational facilities, sanitation, and access to counsel violated their constitutional rights. The inmates were represented by the Corrections Legal Services Program, Freedom Through Equality, Inc., the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union, and the NAACP Legal Defense and E…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
H.C. v. Jarrard

4:79-00830 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 19, 1979

On or about 1979, juvenile detainees filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by Central Florida Legal Services, specifically alleged that the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center's policy of performing strip searches and cavity inspections several times a day violated their constitutional rights and th…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Lake County

2:74-00049 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 1974

Closed Date: 1977

On February 20, 1974, an inmate at the Juvenile Detention Home in Lake County, Indiana filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Lake County in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana on behalf of all present and future juveniles held in the Lake County Juvenile Detention Home or held without charges in the Gary City Jail. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Project for Justice and Equality, filed an Amended Complaint on August 2, 1974, and asked …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Harris v. Bell

2:73-cv-00115 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 1973

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 1975

Deplorable conditions at the State Board of Training Schools Facility in Booneville, Missouri (hereinafter T.S.B.) incited plaintiff Fredericka Harris to file a lawsuit in August 1973 against the Superintendent of T.S.B. on behalf of her minor son, Lavon Harris, and other residents of T.S.B. similarly situated. Filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Central Division, Ms. Harris' complaint was in regard to the use and conditions of eighteen cells on the s…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Morales v. Turman

4:71-cv-01948 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1971

In 1971, the plaintiffs, a class of all juveniles past, present, or future adjudicated delinquent and involuntarily committed to the custody of the Texas Youth Council (TYC), filed suit against the TYC challenging conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs were supported by amici curiae from the United States Department of Justice and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. The action was brought against the Executive Director of the TYC, members of the TYC, and various employees of the TYC. …