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Edge v. DeKalb County

4:91-cv-00308 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1991

Closed Date: 1997

On February 8, 1991, inmates in the DeKalb County Jail in Alabama filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the county and corrections officials alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. The defendants filed a third-party complaint against the Alabama Department of Corrections alleging that they were responsible for the alleged unconstitutional conditions because the jail's inmates were mostly state pri…
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Loyd v. Alabama Department of Corrections

5:92-cv-00058 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Jan. 9, 1992

On January 9, 1992, inmates of the Jackson County Jail in Scottsboro, Alabama, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Department of Corrections (DOC) challenging conditions at the jail. The plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights. On November 7, 1994, the court (Judge Edwin Nelson) entered an order approving and adopting a consent decree and on January 12, 1995, the co…
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McCray v. Dawson

3:92-cv-01180 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 21, 1992

Closed Date: 2001

On September 21, 1992, inmates at the Macon County Jail in Tuskegee, Alabama, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 challenging the conditions of their confinement at the jail. The plaintiffs were represented by the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee and the Southern Center for Human Rights. The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (Judge Ira De Ment) granted the plaintiffs class certification and approved a consent order in September 1994, which required the defendants, county…
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McGrath v. County of Nevada

2:89-cv-01658 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 4, 1989

On December 4, 1989, a class action lawsuit was filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, on behalf of all present and future prisoners of the Nevada County Jail and Nevada County Detention Center against Nevada County in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Plaintiff prisoners alleged violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In particular, prisoners alleged that they were deprived of beds, seating at meals, clothing, medical, dental, and ment…
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York v. County of El Dorado

2:90-cv-00833 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 28, 1990

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 1994

Inmates at the El Dorado and South Lake Tahoe jails filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit against county officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on June 28, 1990. The case was originally assigned to Judge John F. Moulds, but was refereed to Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows for settlement purposes. Plaintiffs were represented by the Prisoner Rights Union. The case settled at conference, including a limitation on the population of both the Placerv…
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People v. McOwens

No. C006755 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1989

This case is a challenge in California state court of pre-sentence custody time credit for a criminal defendant, following a federal court decree concerning work time credits for certain inmates.In the earlier case (whose title we do not know), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California (JC-CA-017). The consent decree provided that in order to maintai…
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Branson v. Winter

A020323 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: March 27, 1981

On March 27, 1981, a prisoner at the jail in Santa Clara County, California, appearing before a state judge to plead guilty to grand theft, handed the judge a petition for habeas corpus, challenging the conditions of confinement which were alleged to include overcrowding and inhumane conditions. The Santa Clara County Superior Court (Judge Bruce Allen) invited a local public interest lawyer, at the Public Interest Law Foundation, to convert the case to a class action and represent the prisoners…
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Hudler v. Duffy

95-022160 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1977

Closed Date: May 5, 1995

In two consolidated cases, San Diego County inmates brought suit in state court challenging overcrowding conditions at five detention facilities: the Las Colinas Detention Facility for Women, El Cajon, South Bay, Vista and Descanso detention facilities. Hudler v. Duffy was filed in 1977 and Armstrong v. Board of Supervisors was filed in 1987. While we were unable to obtain the written opinion, the case is discussed in Wayne Welsh, Counties in Court: Jail Overcrowding and Court-Ordered Reform (…
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Re: Yolo County Jail

NA | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: 1987

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California. The consent decree provided that in order to maintain the inmate population cap, and notwithstanding California state law, the sheriff was authorized to extend the California Penal Code section 4024.2 work program to incarcerated inmates. Qualifying inmates were eligible to have one day of their sentence ded…
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Mercer v. Mitchell

4:74-00195 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 1974

In 1974, a group of inmates filed a section 1983 class action suit, claiming that the Chatham County Jail was extremely overcrowded. Defendants agreed that the jail was overcrowded, and litigation abated during construction of a new jail. After completion of the new jail, inmates who remained in the old jail renewed their challenge to the crowded conditions of the old jail once again, and, in 1981, the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia (Judge Berry Edenfield) placed a tempor…