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Hadix v. Johnson

2:80-cv-73581 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1980

Closed Date: Nov. 15, 2000

NOTE: There are two separate cases, in two separate districts, under the caption Hadix. This summary and documents are for the Eastern District of Michigan case, 2:80-cv-73581-JF, filed in 1980. As explained below, in 1992, the Eastern District judge, John Feikens, split that case in two, and sent part of it (the part relating to medical and mental health care, and eventually fire safety) to the Western District, where it received the docket number 4:92-CV-110.  On September 18, 1980, prisoners…
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Brown v. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:16-cv-00945 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 30, 2016

Closed Date: June 6, 2019

Nine current and former inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institute who are blind brought a discrimination lawsuit against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. One individual inmate filed his complaint on March 30, 2016, and five days later this case was consolidated with eight other cases. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Federation of the Blind and Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, alleged tha…
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United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
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O'Bryan v. Saginaw County

1:75-cv-10075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1975

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

In 1975, the plaintiffs filed this class action suit against the Saginaw County Jail on behalf of themselves and all inmates, seeking permanent injunctive and declaratory relief. The plaintiffs challenged a variety of jail conditions, including disciplinary practices, visitation policies, availability of exercise, access to legal material, censorship of communication, and separation of adults from juveniles. After a trial on the merits in 1977, the District Court for the Eastern District of Mic…
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Mackes v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:21-cv-01100 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: April 21, 2021

This lawsuit was filed on April 21, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado by two blind men in the custody of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) as well as the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado (“NFB-CO”), on behalf of the two men as well as other members who are or may be in the custody of CDOC. They alleged that CDOC violated their rights under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act by excluding the…
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U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety, …
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Duvall v. Glendening (Duvall v. Hogan)

1:94-cv-02541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 1994

This case was brought in 1976 in the federal district court for the District of Maryland under Section 1983 by inmates at the Baltimore City Jail against both state and city officials of the Baltimore, Maryland prison system. The plaintiffs complained of overcrowding and conditions of confinement at the Baltimore City Jail, which resulted in a consent agreement setting capacity limitations, eliminating double celling and providing other services. In April 1981, the case was consolidated with Co…
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Blackcrow v. Lake County Montana

9:21-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Sept. 3, 2021

This is a case about conditions of confinement in the Lake County Jail in Montana. The plaintiff, an incarcerated individual, filed this suit on September 3, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against Lake County, the Lake County Sheriff, and ten individual law enforcement officers. The plaintiff alleged that he was denied medical care and subjected to unsanitary and unsafe conditions in the jail in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The plaintiff further asserted a Fo…
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Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

1:19-cv-00660 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 4, 2019

This case concerns public defenders’ ability to access their clients at a pretrial detention facility in Brooklyn, New York. On February 4, 2019, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc. (“Federal Defenders”), a nonprofit legal aid organization providing public defense services for indigent clients in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Federal Defenders sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) af…
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Medina v. Fischer

1:11-cv-00176 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2011

Closed Date: July 22, 2016

On January 4, 2011, visually impaired and blind inmates at Sullivan and Wende Correctional Facilities filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs— who initially represented themselves but later were represented by Legal Aid and private attorneys—asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief. The plaintiffs sued the State of New York for violations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the American with D…