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CHILD WELFARE
David C. v. Leavitt

2:93-cv-00206 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1993

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 2008

This lawsuit was filed by the National Center of Youth Law on February 2, 1993, against the Utah Department of Human Services (DHS), in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The class action complaint named as the plaintiff class all children in the custody of DHS, whether in a shelter care facility, foster family home, group home, or institutional care; and all children who known to DHS by virtue of a report of child abuse. It addressed systemic issues encompassing the shortfalls …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Love

4:70-00201 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1970

On September 30, 1970, five inmates of the Pulaski County, Arkansas, jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the county sheriff, jail superintendent, and county judge. The plaintiffs, represented by legal services attorneys, sought declaratory judgment, injunctions and "other appropriate relief," citing a list of twenty areas of concern, including over-crowding, insufficient number of guards to protect the in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. Cauthron

78-01838 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1978

In 1978, inmates at the Sebastian County jail filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Eighth Amendment, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by overcrowding and lack of exercise, inadequate diet, forced exposure to religious witnessing, restricted visitation privileges, denial of access to newspapers, insufficient medical care, and inadequate security. The United States District Court for the Wes…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Howerton v. Mississippi County

3:71-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1971

Closed Date: 1973

On September 29, 1971, former and present inmates of the Mississippi County (Arkansas) Penal Farm filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that the county had violated their constitutional rights by requiring them to work in unsafe conditions, providing them inadequate medical care and clothing, maintaining unsanitary showering and kitchen facilities at the jail, and failing to protect them from assaults by oth…
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
Carruthers v. Israel (Jonas v. Stack)

0:76-cv-06086 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1976

On August 10, 1976, persons at North Broward Detention Center filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued Broward County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. At the time, the county's main jail was in the old courthouse where 1,200 inmates were packed into cells designed for 275. The Court appointed counsel and the parties went on to litigate the claims. We have only limited information on the first 18 years of the case; the docket …
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…
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
Jackson v. Whitman

5:83-02031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1983

Prisoners at the Bienville Parish Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the parish in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of living quarters, hygiene, food, security, medical and dental care, disciplinary procedures, communications, mail and visitation, access to courts, law library, recreation, and religion.On May 24, 1…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Camden County Jail Inmates v. Parker

3:82-01946 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: June 14, 1982

The plaintiff class, inmates in the Camden County Jail (CCJ) of New Jersey, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on June 14, 1982, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of their confinement. The plaintiff class alleged that the totality of the circumstances resulting from prison overcrowding caused inadequate provision of living space, sanitary facilities, visitation, recreation, medical services, religious activities and the absence of a class…