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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…
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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…
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Brenneman v. Madigan

3:70-01911 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 8, 1970

On September 8, 1970, five pretrial detainees filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, on behalf of themselves and all others awaiting trial in the Greystone section of the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center in California. The named defendants were the Sheriff and the members of the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County where the facility was located. The plaintiffs claimed that conditions at the facility were cruel and unusual…
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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…
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Arias v. Wainwright

4:79-cv-00792 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 1979

On March 23, 1979, prisoners in Florida's county jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Florida against the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. The class consisted of all persons who were or would be confined in the county jails. Southern Legal Counsel, the Florida Justice Institute, the ACLU National Prison Project, and private counsel represented the class. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief…
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Avant v. Rice

8:91-cv-00748 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 14, 1991

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 1992

In 1991, plaintiff filed a section 1983 action against employees of the Pinellas County Jail for opening his legal mail outside his presence. The district court for the Middle District of Florida (Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich) forwarded plaintiff's complaint to the consent monitor appointed in the Davis v. Roberts case (JC-FL-012) pursuant to the consent decree established to resolve problems related to unconstitutional jail conditions and practices. The monitor recommended that plaintiff's c…
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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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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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Linn v. Foti

2:88-cv-03736 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 1988

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2000

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. This case involves a pro se lawsuit filed on August 25, 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement while jailed at the Community Correctional Center and the House of Detention. Pro se plaintiffs s…
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Jackson v. Whitman

5:83-02031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1983

Prisoners at the Bienville Parish Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the parish in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of living quarters, hygiene, food, security, medical and dental care, disciplinary procedures, communications, mail and visitation, access to courts, law library, recreation, and religion.On May 24, 1…