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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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Howerton v. Mississippi County

3:71-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1971

Closed Date: 1973

On September 29, 1971, former and present inmates of the Mississippi County (Arkansas) Penal Farm filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that the county had violated their constitutional rights by requiring them to work in unsafe conditions, providing them inadequate medical care and clothing, maintaining unsanitary showering and kitchen facilities at the jail, and failing to protect them from assaults by oth…
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Osborn v. Manson

3:72-cv-15755 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: 1972

Five pretrial inmates of the New Haven Correctional Center in Connecticut filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Connecticut Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the length of their confinement and by conditions of their confinement in administrative segregation cells which had no running water and only covered buckets which were infrequently emptied, and by…
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Campbell v. McGruder

1:71-cv-01462 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 21, 1971

Closed Date: 2004

On July 21, 1971, pre-trial detainees at the District of Columbia Jail filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the mayor of the District of Columbia and jail officials. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief for a long list of violations of the inmates' Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional rights. These included overcrowding, inadequate food, denial of access to counsel, inadequate medical services…
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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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DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Daviess County (KY)

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On March 24, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky (Center), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et seq. The DOJ sent notice to Judge-Executive Buzz Norris of the Daviess County Fiscal Court at that time. An additional notice letter dated June 19, 1997, expanded the investigation to cover not only the main jail, but three other related facilities--the E. Rober…
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Breaux & U.S. v. Phelps

6:77-00121 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 1977

Closed Date: 1981

On February 3, 1977, inmates at the Acadia Parish Prison filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to challenge their conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief to redress the alleged deprivation of their civil rights. Shortly after the filing of the complaint, the District Court (Judge W. Eugene Davis) entered an order directing the defendants to allow the inmates free a…
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Hamilton v. Schriro

2:69-cv-02443 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1969

Closed Date: 2013

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. These cases worked their way through the federal courts for three decades.This case originated in 1969 and pursuant to that action a class was certified consisting of those persons incarcerated in the facilities for Orleans Parish Prison system.On June 25, 1970, following a he…
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Linn v. Foti

2:88-cv-03736 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 1988

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2000

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. This case involves a pro se lawsuit filed on August 25, 1988 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement while jailed at the Community Correctional Center and the House of Detention. Pro se plaintiffs s…
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Jackson v. Whitman

5:83-02031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 24, 1983

Prisoners at the Bienville Parish Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the parish in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by inadequacies in the areas of living quarters, hygiene, food, security, medical and dental care, disciplinary procedures, communications, mail and visitation, access to courts, law library, recreation, and religion.On May 24, 1…