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Chairs v. Burgess

5:83-05137 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: March 8, 1983

Closed Date: Oct. 30, 1998

On March 8, 1983, inmates at the Morgan County Jail in Alabama filed a class action lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against Department of Corrections officials challenging the overcrowded conditions of the jail. The complaint alleged crowding, lack of adequate medical attention, lack of a grievance procedure, lack of a library, denial of religious freedom, unsanitary food, and failure to transfer inmates to state institutions…
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Davis v. Roberts

8:96-cv-00682 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: April 8, 1996

Closed Date: Feb. 11, 1998

In 1975, litigation was initiated in the District Court for the Middle District of Florida to challenge the conditions of the Pinellas County Jail. The case, styled Davis v. Roberts, resulted in the Jail being placed under the oversight of the Court to rectify various constitutional violations. The Court appointed a monitor to review the conditions of the jail and to submit annual reports on the Jail's compliance. Dr. Linda Smith, who served as monitor during 1993 and 1994, issued a report no…
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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…
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Makinson v. Bonneville County

4:97-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 30, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On April 30, 1997, incarcerated individuals at the Bonneville County Jail, represented by the ACLU, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, challenging conditions of confinement at the jail.Simultaneously with the filing of the complaint, the parties lodged a proposed Consent Decree, Order and Judgment which settled the disputed issues as to inmate confinement, pending the completion of construction of a new Bonneville Coun…
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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…
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U.S. v. Harrison County

1:95-cv-00005 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 1995

Closed Date: 2015

On May 3, 1993, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Harrison County, Mississippi of its intention to investigate conditions of the county jail under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. 1997 et seq. Following the investigation, the DOJ sent a letter notifying the president of the Harrison County Board of Supervisors of its findings. The DOJ found there were too few staffed officers per inmates and significant deficiencies in the officers' training. Thes…
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Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…
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Cudnik v. Kreiger

1:74-00275 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 2, 1974

Pretrial detainees who had been receiving methadone treatment for drug addiction prior to detention filed a class action against the Sheriff of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the Deputy in charge of jail operations, and the physician at the jail for denying them methadone treatments while in custody. The district court for the Northern District of Ohio (Chief Judge Frank Battisti) enjoined defendants from preventing pretrial detainees, who immediately prior to their detention were participating in an …
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Herrera v. Pierce County

3:95-cv-05025 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 1995

Closed Date: 2011

On January 19, 1995, inmates at the Pierce County Detention and Corrections Center ("PCDCC") in Tacoma Washington filed a class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against the County, and various agencies responsible for the operation of the PCDCC. Plaintiffs were represented by Columbia Legal Services, Northwest Justice Project, and private attorneys.On October 31, 1995, the parties entered into a temporary stipulated order …
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Ginest v. Board of County Commissioners

2:86-cv-00310 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 1986

In 1986, inmates at the Carbon County Jail in Wyoming filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all present and future inmates of the Carbon County Jail in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of medical care and mental health care. In 1987, the court (Judge Alan B. Johnson) certified the class and entered a consent decree on behalf of plaintiffs that required defendants to c…