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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Gary H. v. Hegstrom

3:77-cv-01039 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: 1977

Closed Date: July 20, 1989

In 1977, eleven inmates of Oregon's MacLaren School (a facility for adolescent wards of the juvenile court system, located in Woodburn, Oregon) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Oregon Department of Human Resources in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs, represented by the Oregon Legal Services Corporation, the Legal Aid Service, the National Juvenile Law Center, and the Juvenile Justice Legal Advocacy Project of the National Center …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
CRIPA Investigation, Franklin (PA)

No Court Case | No Court

In 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) conducted an investigation of the VisionQuest Juvenile Detention Facility in Franklin, Pennsylvania pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. The Justice Department issued its findings on August 4, 1994, which uncovered several unconstitutional conditions. The DOJ found that VisionQuest staff members subjected juveniles to serious physical and mental abuse, including punching, hitting, headlocks, headb…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crooks v. Nix

4:85-cv-00364 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 6, 1985

Closed Date: 1989

On May 6, 1985, an individual inmate suffering from leukemia filed a pro se Section 1983 complaint against the Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary, the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections, and The Iowa City Medical Center in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Plaintiff alleged that defendants demonstrated deliberate indifference to his medical needs when they denied him a bone marrow transplant and failed to give him adequate pain medication. The …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Brown v. Mckernan

2:90-cv-00246 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On October 15, 1990, inmates confined in the protective custody units of the Maine State Prison in Thomaston, Maine, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Maine Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. The plaintiffs, represented by the Maine Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU National Prison Project, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by ov…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rentschler v. Schriro

4:94-cv-00396 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 2, 1994

Closed Date: 1997

On March 2, 1994, inmates at the Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Missouri Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The inmates alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding and inadequate medical care, with the specific complaint that the prison intentionally used contaminated medical supplies, denied inmates pain medication, and had no physical therapy depart…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Milburn v. Coughlin

1:79-cv-05077 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 1979

On September 25, 1979, this class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. 1983 on behalf of all people who were or would be incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York, against New York State, its Department of Correctional Services, Green Haven Correctional Facility, and their medical personnel. Represented by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society of New York, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Van Patten v. Pearce

3:87-cv-00298 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: March 23, 1987

On March 23, 1987, inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Oregon Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequate healthcare at the prison. On May 29, 1991, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Judge Owen M. Panner) denied the defendants' motion for summary judgment, holding that the…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Feliciano v. Parole Board of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

3:79-cv-00004 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 1979

On January 3, 1979, prisoners housed in Puerto Rican prisons filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, against the Administration of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The plaintiffs, represented by the Civil Action and Education Corporation, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the prison system provided inadequate healthcare. They also alleged that the living conditions in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Trigg v. Blanton

A-6067 | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: 1978

Sometime on or about 1978, inmates at a Tennessee state prison filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Department of Corrections in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, Tennessee. The National Prison Project and Legal Services of Nashville, Tennessee represented the plaintiffs. On August 23, 1978 the court (Chancellor Ben H. Cantrell) issued an order finding the entire Tennessee prison system unconstitutional.Specifically, the court found that inmates' vocational, educational, social, ment…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
U.S. v. State of New Mexico

1:07-cv-00470 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2011

Pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") conducted an investigation of conditions at the Ft. Bayard Medical Center ("Ft. Bayard"), a public nursing home facility in southwest New Mexico, operated by the state in an old military facility. The investigation resulted in a May 1, 2006, findings letter being sent by DOJ to the governor. The letter stated that in July and October 20…