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DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Daviess County (KY)

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On March 24, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky (Center), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et seq. The DOJ sent notice to Judge-Executive Buzz Norris of the Daviess County Fiscal Court at that time. An additional notice letter dated June 19, 1997, expanded the investigation to cover not only the main jail, but three other related facilities--the E. Rober…
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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…
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U.S. v. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

1:99-cv-00017 | District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1999

Closed Date: 2014

On April 10, 1998, the United States notified Governor Pedro P. Tenorio of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth) of its intention to investigate conditions at the corrections and detention institutions on the Commonwealth pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. The United States investigated conditions at six facilities: the Saipan Prison Complex, the Saipan Detention Facility ("SDF"), the Kagman Youth Facility on…
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Giles v. Coughlin

1:95-cv-03033 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 1995

James Giles, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in New York, filed a pro-se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the state Department of Corrections on April 28, 1995, alleging that his Eighth Amendment rights had been violated when he was held in "medical keeplock" for refusing to take a test that would detect latent tuberculosis ("PPD test"). The conditions of confinement in medical keeplock were found unconstitutional in two other sou…
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Reynolds v. Goord

1:98-cv-06722 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 1998

Closed Date: 2001

On September 24, 1998, a Rastafarian inmate at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants' policy of requiring all inmates to submit to an annual tuberculosis ("TB") screening violated his religious convictions. He argued th…
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Austin v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:90-cv-07497 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Nov. 27, 1990

Closed Date: 1995

On November 27, 1990, prisoners from various Pennsylvania prisons filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, who were represented in part by the Disabilities Law Project and the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that their constitutional rig…
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Palmigiano v. Garrahy

1:74-cv-00172 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: July 16, 1974

Closed Date: Feb. 19, 2014

On 01/11/2007, six inmates in the "awaiting trial" section of the Adult Correctional Institutions of Rhode Island (ACI) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs, represented in part by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated because …
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Inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility v. County of Bucks

2:02-cv-07377 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2002

On September 12, 2002, inmates of the Bucks County Correctional Facility [BCCF] filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), challenging their conditions of confinement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Institutional Law Project and private attorneys, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages. Plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by denial of nece…
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DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Patrick County Jail, VA

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In December 2001, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., commenced an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Patrick County Jail in Stuart, Virginia. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Jail violated the constitutional rights of convicted inmates and pre-trial detainees. On March 6, 2003, the DOJ issu…
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DOJ Investigation of Sebastian County Adult Detention Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas

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In March 2005, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., commenced an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center in Arkansas. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Detention Center violated the constitutional rights of convicted inmates and pre-trial detainees. To remedy th…