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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe 1 v. State of Tennessee

3:24-cv-00777 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: June 26, 2024

Case Ongoing

In this case, Tennessee children with disabilities allege that the State of Tennessee subjected children with disabilities to cruel and abhorrent treatment in Tennessee’s self-described “hardware security” juvenile detention facilities. The primary plaintiffs in this case are three Tennessee children with disabilities (specifically mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and behavior disorders) who have lived in Tennessee's juvenile justice facilities. The other plaintiff is Disability Right…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cooper v. Kliebert

3:14-cv-00507 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

Case Ongoing

On August 14, 2014, a number of prisoners in Louisiana state prisons filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that, despite being found not guilty by reason of insanity of criminal offenses, they were still being incarcerated in Louisiana prisons. T…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Glendening v. Howard

5:22-cv-04032 | U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Filed Date: May 26, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case arose out of the long wait times for competency evaluation and competency restoration for pre-trial defendants in Kansas. On May 26, 2022, three attorneys and a parent filed this lawsuit as “next friends” for five pre-trial defendants who underwent competency hearings and were awaiting competency restoration at Larned State Hospital. The plaintiffs sued the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Disability and Aging Services (KDADS), the State Hospitals Commissioner, and the Superinten…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Wagner v. Harris County, Texas

4:23-cv-02886 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2023

Case Ongoing

On August 7, 2023, this case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of 27 pre-trial detainees who had either died or suffered severe injuries in the Harris County Jail. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs—who were relatives of the detainees—alleged that defendant Harris County and its policy-makers were aware of unconstitutional conditions at the Harris County Jail, and that damages were caused by their deliberately indifferent policies an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Andrews v. Rauner

1:18-cv-01101 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 11, 2018

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2018, the mother of a deceased prisoner at the Logan Correctional Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiff sued the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) and Wexford Health Sources, a contractor for IDOC. Represented by the Uptown People’s Law Center and the Northside Transformative Justice Center, the plaintiff alleged that officials at the Logan Correctional Center subjected her daughter to cruel and unusual puni…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
United States v. Mississippi

3:16-cv-00622 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 2016

Case Ongoing

On August 11, 2016, the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Mississippi. The DOJ sued the State of Mississippi under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). The DOJ asked the court to enjoin the State of Mississippi from discriminating against adults with mental illness and from failing to provide them with appropriate integrated co…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
M.G. v. Cuomo

7:19-cv-00639 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2019, six indigent prisoners with mental illness whom the defendants held in secure prisons past their release dates filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of other prisoners in similar situations. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of New York, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Commissioner, Associate Commissioner, and the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ("DOCCS"), alleging …
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Pelichet v. Lyon

2:18-cv-11385 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 2, 2018

Closed Date: March 23, 2023

On May 2, 2018 a group of individuals with mental health diagnoses and Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services (MPAS) sued the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS); several administrative individuals, including the Commissioner, in their official capacities; Hegira Programs; and Carelink Network (two mental health subcontractors) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Plaintiffs alleged that DHHS administered the mental health system in a manner t…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Lovely H. v. Eggleston

1:05-cv-06920 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2005

Case Ongoing

On August 3, 2005, a group of people with disabilities filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the New York Human Resources Administration (NYHRA). The complaint was brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violation of these Acts, the Due Process Clauses of the U.S. and New York Constitutions, and New York State and City civil rights statutes and regulations. Repres…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Suarez v. Annucci

7:20-cv-07133 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a damages case about a man with bipolar schizoaffective disorder who alleges prison officials and doctors denied him mental health treatment while he was incarcerated at New York Downstate Correctional Facility (Downstate) in summer 2017. The case is notable: it held that part of the New York Special Housing Unit (SHU) Exclusion Law relating to mentally disabled prisoners placed in solitary confinement is privately enforceable.  When the plaintiff was transferred to Downstate in June 20…