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Brown v. Vann

2:77-00554 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 25, 1977

This was a desegregation suit filed against the Birmingham City jail. It also involved population reduction, sanitation, and other issues. An order for the plaintiffs was entered on April 18, 1978. We have no further information about the case.
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Phillips v. Weeks

4:72-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

In January 1972, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging a pattern and practice of police brutality towards African-American visitors to Little Rock, Arkansas. The class consisted of all black persons who ever resided or visited the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trial began in December of 1974 and lasted 30 days. No pattern and practice of police brutality was found, but some specific incidents were substantiated. The pa…
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Stroman v. Griffin

4:70-cv-02690 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 1971

In 1968, the District Court in the Northern District of Georgia issued a state-wide injunction requiring integration of all city and county jails and correctional facilities in Wilson v. Kelley, 294 F. Supp. 1005 (N.D. Ga. 1968). In 1970, two plaintiffs brought a civil rights class action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, complaining of segregation in the Chatham County Jail in violation of the Kelley injunction. The district court (Chief Judge Alexander Lawrence) he…
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U.S. v. Wyandotte County

2:70-cv-03163 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 5, 1970

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 1974

The Attorney General of the United States filed a lawsuit on June 5, 1970, under Sections 301(a) and (b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000b, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The Attorney General was seeking an injunction against the Wyandotte County Jail regarding an alleged policy of racial segregation within the jail. On May 9, 1972, the district court (Chief Judge Wesley E. Brown) found that there was segregation within the jail but dismissed…
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West v. Howard

1:80-cv-00680 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 28, 1980

Closed Date: April 1, 1991

This is one of a collection of § 1983 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. These cases have worked their way through the federal courts for three decades.In this case, a civil rights class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement in the Vernon Parish Jail.…
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U.S. v. Jackson Parish

3:79-00003 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 1979

On January 3, 1979, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit under 28 U.S.C. § 1345 against the Jackson Parish Jail in Louisiana in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Previously, in 1978, the Justice Department had approved of suit being filed to desegregate the Natchitoches Parish Jail in Louisiana. An internal Justice Department memo (written by then Assistant Attorney General Drew Days) in 1978 indicated that four other desegretation claims, including …
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U.S. v. Madison Parish

3:74-01152 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 1974

Closed Date: 1975

In 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 2000(b) against Madison Parish, Louisiana, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District Louisiana. The DOJ alleged that the Madison Parish Jail subjected inmates to unconstitutional conditions of confinement. Following discovery in 1974-5, the court set a trial date for Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 1975. However, before the case could go to trial, the parties reached a settlement, and in 1975, the district court (Judge…
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Valentine v. Englehardt

2:78-cv-00270 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1978

Closed Date: July 21, 1980

In February 1978, seven pre-trial detainees at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Office of Inmate Advocacy at the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by numerous conditions at the jail.…
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Capel v. McCarthy

2:77-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: July 15, 1977

Closed Date: 1987

On July 15, 1977, inmates of the Clark County Jail in Las Vegas, Nevada, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Commission in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. The plaintiffs, represented by the federal public defender, alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by confinement in conditions that were oppressive, barbaric, degrading, and dangerous to their lives, health, and safety. On August 11, 1977, the …
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U.S. v. Ashley

8:69-cv-00739 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 1969

On August 22, 1969, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §2000(b), against Anderson County, South Carolina, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. The plaintiff asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants were violating the constitutional rights of the inmates of the Anderson County Jail and the Anderson County Prison Farm by racial segregation and discrimination directed aga…