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CHILD WELFARE
Marisol A. v. Giuliani

1:95-cv-10533 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 1995

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2018

This federal class action was brought by children in the custody of the New York City Child Welfare Administration ("CWA"), and children who, while not in the custody of CWA, are or will be at risk of abuse or neglect and whose status is known or should be known to CWA. It was filed on December 13, 1995 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by Children's Rights Inc., Lawyers for Children, and private counsel, sought class certification, …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Foster v. Fulton County

1:99-cv-00900 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 8, 1999

Closed Date: 2015

On April 8, 1999, inmates at the Foster County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, who had tested positive for HIV, filed this class action lawsuit against county officials. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights, brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They alleged that the defendants' policies, which denied even basic medical care to HIV-positive prisoners, were sufficient to meet the deliberate indifference…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Schriro

2:69-cv-02443 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1969

Closed Date: 2013

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. These cases worked their way through the federal courts for three decades.This case originated in 1969 and pursuant to that action a class was certified consisting of those persons incarcerated in the facilities for Orleans Parish Prison system.On June 25, 1970, following a he…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Crutchfield v. Wright

1:88-cv-02308 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 1988

Closed Date: July 20, 1990

In 1988, plaintiff filed a section 1983 suit pro se against the Warden of Montgomery County Detention Center. In her complaint, plaintiff alleged that defendant housed plaintiff in an administrative segregation unit because she tested positive for H.I.V. Plaintiff sought declaratory judgment that defendant's policies are unconstitutional and permanent injunctive relief prohibiting defendants from segregating plaintiff based on her medical condition. After the District Court in Maryland (Judg…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Vega v. Ward

1:82-cv-06475 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1982

Closed Date: 1997

On September 29, 1982, incarcerated individuals at the Rikers Island Hospital in New York filed a pro se class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the Rikers Island Jails in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by poor healthcare and other unspecified conditions of confinement. Our docket has a gap between 1983 a…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
United States v. Louisiana

3:98-cv-00947 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1998

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

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 throughout Louisiana. These cases have worked their way through the federal courts over the last four decades and are part of this collection, located at PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA.This case stems from a report published in October 1995 by the Human Rights Watch. The report, titled "Children in Con…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Harris v. Thigpen

2:87-01109 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 2, 1986

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 2000

In 1987, prisoners of the state of Alabama filed this action against the Alabama Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama; they amended the complaint on March 30, 1988. We don't have the initial complaint, but the amended complaint was a class action under 42 U.S.C. §1983. In it, the plaintiffs, represented by Southern Prisoners Defense Committee and the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, alleged that their constitution…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gates v. Deukmejian

2:87-cv-01636 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 1987

Closed Date: 1998

On November 20, 1987, prisoners incarcerated at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville (CMF) and at the Northern Reception Center (NRC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against CMF, NRC and the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the Prison Law Office, the American Civil Liberties Union, and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, allegi…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Shumate v. Wilson

2:95-cv-00619 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 4, 1995

Closed Date: 2000

On April 4, 1995, women inmates filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the governor of California and California prison officials regarding the medical care provided to women prisoners by the California Department of Corrections (DOC) at the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, CA and the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Frontera, CA. On January 12, 1996, the court certified a p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bartkus v. Manson

2:80-cv-00506 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 1980

On August 22, 1980, Richard Bartkus filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Connecticut Corrections Department. This case was consolidated and named lead case with five other cases filed against the defendant in 1981 and 1982. The plaintiffs in the other cases were Palmer Gaines, Joseph L. Letezeio, Jr., and Ernest Bradshaw. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and Legal Assistance to Prisoners. Othe…