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PRISON CONDITIONS
Turay v. Seling

2:91-cv-00664 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: May 14, 1991

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 2009

On May 14, 1991, an inmate at the Washington Special Commitment Center (SCC) at McNeil Island, Washington, filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Washington State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. SCC was a treatment center for sexually violent criminals, and the plaintiff alleged that his constitutional rights had been violated by various conditions of his confinement, including inadequate mental health treatment.On…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
New York v. Consilvio

404172/05 | New York state trial court

Filed Date: 2005

Closed Date: 2007

The Mental Hygiene Legal Service (MHLS) filed a lawsuit on behalf of 22 John Does under New York Civil Practice Law and Rules § 70, a state habeas corpus statute, against the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Facility in the New York County Supreme Court. The plaintiffs were represented by the MHLS and asked for conditional release, claiming that they had been civilly committed in contravention of state law and the United States Constitution. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that they were not aff…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Whitaker v. Perdue

4:06-cv-00140 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 20, 2006

On June 20, 2006, six low-level sex offenders filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against the state of Georgia. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Center for Human Rights and the ACLU of Georgia, challenged provisions of the state's new sex offender law that prevented sex offenders from living and working within one-thousand feet of school bus stops and churches. The plaintiffs had committed their crimes when they were young …
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
U.S. v. Comstock

5:06-hc-02195 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 2, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

This case involved a constitutional challenge to certain provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. At issue was the civil commitment program for sexual predators as outlined in the Act. 18 U.S.C. § 4248.The issue arose in five cases filed by the government in 2006, in which the government sought to institute commitment proceedings with respect to federal prisoners incarcerated at FCI-Butner whose sentences were about to expire. Each inmate had been convicted of a fe…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Mann v. Georgia Department of Corrections

S07A1043 | Georgia state supreme court

Filed Date: Sept. 2, 2003

Closed Date: Nov. 21, 2007

This case, brought in state court in Georgia, involved a constitutional challenge to a Georgia state law which placed restrictions on where sex offenders could live or work. The law, OCGA § 42-1-15, prohibited registered sex offenders from residing or working at a location that was within 1,000 feet of any child care facility, church, school or area where minors congregate.Appellant Anthony Mann was a registered sexual offender. Mann had previously challenged the law that prohibited him from li…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Santos v. State of Georgia

08-1296 | Georgia state supreme court

Filed Date: 2007

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2008

A homeless convicted sexual offender was asked to leave the shelter where he had been living. For several months, he had no fixed residence address. He was arrested and charged with violating the State of Georgia's registry requirements because he did not register a new address with the county sheriff within 72 hours prior to leaving the shelter, as required by the statute. On October 27, 2008, the Georgia Supreme Court quashed his indictment, holding that the address reporting requirements …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Galloway v. Delgado

1:07-cv-00276 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 10, 2007

Closed Date: 2010

On April 10, 2007, attorneys with the Texas Civil Rights Project filed this class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court Western District of Texas. The plaintiffs challenged the treatment of juveniles in the custody of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC). The plaintiffs alleged that the TYC routinely and daily violated the constitutional rights of children incarcerated in TYC facilities and "relegated their youthful lives to a living hell." The plaintiffs asserted c…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Donhauser v. Goord

9:01-cv-01535 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 10, 2001

Closed Date: 2010

On October 10, 2001, the plaintiff, an inmate at the Oneida Correctional Facility in New York, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. The plaintiff filed pro se (though counsel began representing the plaintiff in 2004) and brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a number of defendants, including the commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services ("DOCS") as well as other DOCS officials. The case was before Judge David…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Doe v. Nixon

4:08-cv-01518 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 2008

Closed Date: 2013

On October 8, 2008, several sex offenders in Missouri filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the State of Missouri, several cities and counties in Missouri, and several police departments in Missouri. The plaintiffs were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri Foundation and private counsel. They asked the court for a preliminary injunction that prevented the police from enforcing R.S.Mo. §589.426, which prohibits certain activi…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Canupp v. Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation

2:04-cv-00260 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 7, 2004

Closed Date: 2009

On May 7, 2004, individuals in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) filed a civil rights suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, challenging the conditions of their confinement at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC) in Arcadia, Florida. Plaintiffs were all involuntarily civilly confined at the FCCC pursuant to Sexually Violent Predator Act §§ 394.910, et seq. Fla. Stat. (2003). Plaintiffs alleged viola…