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Adams & U.S. v. Mathis

1:74-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1974

Closed Date: 1997

On November 19, 1974, an inmate of the Houston County Jail in Alabama filed this case, pro se, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, seeking class action status. He proceeded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against State officials responsible for the jail, challenging many aspects of conditions--overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate nutrition, medical care, and recreational opportunities. The case was assigned to Judge Frank Johnson. The United States became involve…
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Rooks & U.S. v. Herring

1:92-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 23, 1992

Closed Date: 1998

On April 23, 1992, inmates at the Conecuh County Jail ("Jail") in Evergreen, Alabama filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Alabama Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.The plaintiffs, represented by attorneys from the Southern Center For Human Rights, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages for the alleged inhumane conditions of confinement they were subjected to at the Jail. The case wa…
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Phillips v. Weeks

4:72-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

In January 1972, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging a pattern and practice of police brutality towards African-American visitors to Little Rock, Arkansas. The class consisted of all black persons who ever resided or visited the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trial began in December of 1974 and lasted 30 days. No pattern and practice of police brutality was found, but some specific incidents were substantiated. The pa…
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U.S. v. Polk County

8:73-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: May 23, 1973

Closed Date: March 8, 1974

In 1973, the United States (Civil Rights Division) filed suit against Polk County for civil rights violations and discrimination in the county jail, described as a "dual penal system". Before trial, the parties negotiated a stipulation, and in 1974, the District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Judge Ben Krentzman) issued a consent decree granting injunctive relief in favor of plaintiff. The only information we have for this case is the original docket, and we do not have any informa…
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Wilson & U.S. v. Thompson

1:75-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: July 30, 1975

Closed Date: May 4, 1976

Plaintiffs sued the sheriff of the Early County Jail in the District Court for the Middle District of Georgia because the jail was racially segregated in violation of Wilson v. Kelley, 294 F. Supp. 1005 (N.D. Ga. 1968), aff'd 393 U.S. 266 (1968). Without a trial on the merits, the parties negotiated a consent decree in 1975 that enjoined defendant from failing to desegregate the Early County Jail. In 1976, the FBI conducted an investigation of the jail and found that it was desegregated in c…
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Wilson v. Kelley & Bloodworth

5:73-cv-02922 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 1973

Closed Date: Nov. 12, 1976

Plaintiffs, including white, black, former, present, and prospective inmates in all Georgia penal institutions, challenged the constitutionality of segregation in Georgia jails. In July 1968, a three-judge panel in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Judges Sidney Smith, Frank Hooper, and Elbert Tuttle) certified plaintiffs' class, held that any segregated custody subsequent to January 1, 1969 is unconstitutional, and ordered the Director of the Board of Corrections and al…
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Stroman v. Griffin

4:70-cv-02690 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 1971

In 1968, the District Court in the Northern District of Georgia issued a state-wide injunction requiring integration of all city and county jails and correctional facilities in Wilson v. Kelley, 294 F. Supp. 1005 (N.D. Ga. 1968). In 1970, two plaintiffs brought a civil rights class action in the District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, complaining of segregation in the Chatham County Jail in violation of the Kelley injunction. The district court (Chief Judge Alexander Lawrence) he…
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Makinson v. Bonneville County

4:97-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: April 30, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On April 30, 1997, incarcerated individuals at the Bonneville County Jail, represented by the ACLU, filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, challenging conditions of confinement at the jail.Simultaneously with the filing of the complaint, the parties lodged a proposed Consent Decree, Order and Judgment which settled the disputed issues as to inmate confinement, pending the completion of construction of a new Bonneville Coun…
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U.S. v. Elrod

1:76-04768 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 1976

On December 29, 1976, the United States filed a lawsuit against the Cook County Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois. The United States sought injunctive relief, alleging that the conditions of overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and inadequate visitation at the Department of Corrections constituted violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the individuals incarcerated there. The United States further alleged that the defendants we…
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U.S. v. Wyandotte County

2:70-cv-03163 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: June 5, 1970

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 1974

The Attorney General of the United States filed a lawsuit on June 5, 1970, under Sections 301(a) and (b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000b, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The Attorney General was seeking an injunction against the Wyandotte County Jail regarding an alleged policy of racial segregation within the jail. On May 9, 1972, the district court (Chief Judge Wesley E. Brown) found that there was segregation within the jail but dismissed…