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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Jerry M. v. District of Columbia

1519-85 | District of Columbia state trial court

Filed Date: March 1, 1985

On March 1, 1985, a class of juveniles confined at juvenile detention centers operated by the District of Columbia ("the District") filed a lawsuit against the District under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. They alleged unconstitutional conditions of confinement in violation of the juveniles' Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights. Plaintiffs specifically challenged the conditions of confinement at Cedar Knoll Youth Center and Oak Hill Youth Center, both in Laure…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Goldsby v. Carnes

4:72-cv-20122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1972

This case involves a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail.On January 3, 1973, the District Court John W. Oliver, Jr. issued a memorandum opinion and order, approving the Consent Decree entered into by the parties. Goldsby v. Carnes, 365 F.Supp. 395 (W.D.Mo. 1973). In his opinion, Judge Oliver chronicled the increase of prisoner litigation and the challenges…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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 …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of Bucks County Prison v. Warren

2:79-01785 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 17, 1979

In May, 1979, inmates at the Bucks County Prison in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the county in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Buck's County Legal Aid and the Public Defender, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by unspecified conditions of confinement. The class consisted of all current and future inmates at …
JAIL CONDITIONS
State ex rel. Stull v. Davis

24459 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: 1988

Inmates lodged in West Virginia's regional and county jails while awaiting transfers filed a lawsuit under W.Va.Code, 62-13-5 [1977] in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the state's Department of Corrections, alleging that the delays in transfers due to overcrowding was a denial of the rehabilitative programs to which they were entitled. On July 17, 1988, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virgina issued an unsigned per curiam opinion granting relief in mandamus, holding …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Stockton v. Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

69-cv-02834 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 1969

Closed Date: 1976

On January 23, 1969, African-American juveniles brought a class action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. Plaintiffs alleged equal protection and due process violations and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The U.S. Department of Justice [DOJ] intervened in the action as a party plaintiff on November 11, 1969.Following discovery, the pa…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Danny O. v. Bowman

1:84-01272 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 17, 1984

Closed Date: 1985

On August 17, 1984, minor children held for treatment at the Idaho State Youth Services Center (YSC) submitted their First Amended Class Action Complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against those State officials who had authority relative to YSC, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. The plaintiffs, represented by Idaho Legal Aid, the Youth Law Center, and the National Center for Youth Law (both of San Francisco, California), asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, al…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Donnell C. v. Illinois State Board of Education

1:92-cv-08230 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 1992

Closed Date: 2004

On December 17, 1992, twenty-three school-aged pretrial detainees in the Cook County Jail in Illinois filed this class action lawsuit under the Fourteenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The plaintiffs filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on behalf of all current and future pretrial detainees confined in the divisions of the C…