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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
Tate v. Kassulke

3:75-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1975

Closed Date: 2000

On January 30, 1975, the plaintiffs, inmates of the Jefferson County Jail (Jail), brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief with respect to alleged violations of their constitutional rights. The alleged constitutional violations included the lack of sanitary conditions, access to showers, access to recreation, vermin infested conditions, lack of medical attention, cruel beatings, unconstitutional reading of mai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dotson v. Satterfield

1:87-cv-03123 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 18, 1987

Closed Date: Oct. 3, 1998

Plaintiffs brought a section 1983 class action on their own behalf and on behalf of all present and future inmates in the Dorchester County Detention Center seeking injunctive and declaratory relief for deprivations of constitutionally guaranteed rights. Plaintiffs alleged numerous deficiencies of the Detention Center regarding issues such as shelter, food, sanitation, personal safety, medical care, visitation, and access to courts. In 1988, the District Court in Maryland (Judge Joseph C. How…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Cooper v. Noble

3:78-cv-00207 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 12, 1978

Closed Date: March 14, 1996

In 1978, a group of Madison County inmates filed a section 1983 class action suit against Madison County officials in the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The inmates challenged nearly every aspect of jail conditions. In 1980 or 1981, the district court accepted an interim consent agreement reached by the parties and entered an interim judgment. The consent agreement concerned issues such as nutrition, visitation, disciplinary rules, medical attention, and access to a…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Valentine v. Englehardt

2:78-cv-00270 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1978

Closed Date: July 21, 1980

In February 1978, seven pre-trial detainees at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs, represented by the Office of Inmate Advocacy at the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by numerous conditions at the jail.…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of Bucks County Prison v. Warren

2:79-01785 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: May 17, 1979

In May, 1979, inmates at the Bucks County Prison in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the county in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Buck's County Legal Aid and the Public Defender, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by unspecified conditions of confinement. The class consisted of all current and future inmates at …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Crum v. State Training School for Girls

2:67-00313 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: July 11, 1969

Closed Date: 1970

In approximately 1967, an unknown group of plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against three Alabama reform schools in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel from New York City, sought to desegregate the schools. On August 2, 1968, the Alabama District Court (Judge Clarence W. Allgood) ordered the Alabama Boys Industrial School and the State Training School for Girls, exclusively white institutions, to submit des…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Santiago v. Philadelphia

2:74-02589 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1974

In October of 1974, juvenile inmates at the Philadelphia Youth Study Center (YSC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 2000d against the City of Philadelphia and local Family Court judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia, and private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, and punitive damages for those members of the class that su…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Casey v. Lewis

2:90-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 1990

Closed Date: May 22, 2000

This is a Section 1983 case brought in federal district court for the District of Arizona (Judge Roger Strand) by prisoners. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the ACLU, filed the class action complaint on January 12, 1990. The complaint named as plaintiffs all current and future adults, male and female, in the custody of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The defendants were officials of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The primary allegations of the co…