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PRISON CONDITIONS
Robertson v. Collier

9:23-cv-00023 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 2023

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit, filed on January 26, 2023, challenged the conditions of confinement for people incarcerated on Texas's death row. The four named plaintiffs, all death row inmates in the Allan B. Polunsky Unit Prison operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), alleged the blanket policy of solitary confinement for all male death row prisoners restricted their access to medical care, their ability to meet confidentially with their attorneys, and caused severe physical and mental ha…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Mays v. County of Sacramento

2:18-cv-02081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: July 31, 2018

Case Ongoing

On July 31, 2018, prisoners in the County of Sacramento jail system, with the assistance of counsel from Disability Rights California, Prison Law Office, and Cooley LLP, filed this suit against the County of Sacramento. The plaintiffs alleged a series of problems with the County of Sacramento Jail system, including understaffing, prolonged and harmful isolation, lack of minimally adequate mental health care, lack of minimally adequate medical care, and discrimination on the basis of disability.…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dunsmore v. State of California

3:20-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: March 2, 2020

Case Ongoing

This class action lawsuit alleged that the San Diego County Jail denied proper health accommodations to detainees. On March 2, 2020, a jail detainee filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiff sued the State of California, San Diego County, the San Diego Sheriff's Department, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the San Diego County Sheriff, and the Attorney General of California. Proceeding pro se and in forma pau…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hope v. Harris

20-cv-00027 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

Case Ongoing

(This summary is temporary while we research this case.) On February 16, 2018, a prisoner in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division filed a pro se lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff filed suit against the Senior Warden, the Major, and the Deputy Director of Support Operations, the Assistant Director of Classification, and the Chairperson of the State Classification Committee (SCC) of the prison. The plaintiff all…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Case Ongoing

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Menocal v. The GEO Group, Inc.

1:14-cv-02887 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

On October 22, 2014, current and former civil immigration detainees housed at the Aurora Detention Facility filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiffs sued The GEO Group, Inc., a private company that provides detention and correction services under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) 18 U.S.C. § 1589, and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by several public interest law firms, sought monetary damages. The plaintiffs alle…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe 1 v. State of Tennessee

3:24-cv-00777 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee children with disabilities allege that the State of Tennessee subjected children with disabilities to cruel and abhorrent treatment in Tennessee’s self-described “hardware security” juvenile detention facilities. The primary plaintiffs in this case are three Tennessee children with disabilities (specifically mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and behavior disorders) who have lived in Tennessee's juvenile justice facilities. The other plaintiff is Disability Right…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Council v. Ivey

2:23-cv-00712 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case is about alleged systematic over-detention of people incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections for the purpose of profiting from the practice of “convict leasing.”   On December 12, 2024, ten former and current incarcerated persons, along with three service-worker unions, brought this putative class action lawsuit against a number of Alabama officials and private businesses in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Named defendants in the laws…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
T.G. v. Kern County

1:18-cv-00257 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 2018

Closed Date: May 20, 2024

This is a case about alleged abuse and failure to provide education to youth with disabilities detained at juvenile detention facilities in Kern County, California. Plaintiffs, represented by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates, sued Kern County, the Kern County Probation Department, the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, and two individual officials. They alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), the Individual…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parsons v. Ryan

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, docket number CV-10-2070-PHX-JWS (MEA). That case was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012 after the district court judge determined that the third amended complaint added additional claims and the plaintiffs that were not within the contemplation of the court at the time that it dismissed the second amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Distri…