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West v. Redman

1:78-cv-00014 | U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 1978

Closed Date: June 30, 1993

The plaintiff, an inmate at the Delaware Correctional Center, brought suit in 1978, seeking damages under Section 1983 and alleging physical and psychological mistreatment by prison guards and officials. The plaintiff was subsequently certified as a class representative. The complaint was filed pro se, but a Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) attorney took on the case and filed an amended class action complaint seeking injunctive relief against disciplinary procedures at the prison th…
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Kelly v. Brewer

4:73-00177 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 1973

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 1975

In September 1973, an inmate of the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the prison warden. The plaintiff complained about administrative segregation conditions, standards, and infrequent evaluations of segregated prisoners. The plaintiff further alleged an equal protection violation, claiming that inmates convicted of murder had not been classified as a serious safety…
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Clark v. Brewer

4:76-cv-80054 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 1976

Closed Date: June 14, 2000

On Feb. 12, 1976, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 against prison officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The inmate, represented by the Prisoners Assistance Clinic, challenged the constitutional validity of the "close management policy" (the procedural method of determining whether a prisoner should remain in administrative solid lockup) adopted by the prison. The District Court (Judge William Stuart) …
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Dedrick v. Wallman

4:79-00360 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1979

Closed Date: April 2, 1985

In 1979, inmates from the Iowa State Penitentiary, the Iowa State Men's Reformatory, and the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against prison officials complaining of disciplinary proceedings that allegedly violated the prisoners' Fourteenth Amendment rights. The plaintiffs asked the court to expunge from their records determinations of misconduct that did not meet Constitutional procedura…
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Gibson v. McEvers

3:79-03151 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: July 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1980

On July 20, 1979, an inmate of the Logan Correction center in Lincoln, Illinois, filed a lawsuit pro se pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the assistant warden, other prison officials, and members of the parole board in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The complaint alleged that as a black inmate, he received unequal treatment in disciplinary proceedings in violation of his due process rights and that defendants prevented his use of the law library in violation of…
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Johnson v. Bell

2:78-cv-71747 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: 1978

Closed Date: Feb. 27, 1987

Federal correctional inmates sentenced to terms under the Youth Corrections Act ("YCA") filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of approximately 200 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the United States Parole Commission, alleging that the Defendants violated the constitutional rights of the Plaintiffs by failing to comply with the YCA. Plaintiffs wer…
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McDonnell v. Wolff

4:72-cv-01722 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: 1972

Inmates at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, represented by private counsel, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska, against officials of the Nebraska State Prison system. Plaintiffs complained of limitations on their access to the law library, legal services, and visitation with the inmate legal assistant. Plaintiffs also complained that disciplinary proceedings at the Complex were conducted without regard for procedural or substantive due process and t…
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Moss v. Ward

1:77-00301 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: June 17, 1977

In 1977, an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York State Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The inmate asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that his constitutional rights had been violated when he was deprived of food for four days due to his refusal to return a drink cup to the prison guards. On May 4, 1978, the U.S. District Co…
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Bones v. Warden, NYC Correctional Institution for Men

New York state trial court

Filed Date: 1973

In 1973, an inmate at the New York City Correctional Institution for Men filed a lawsuit under Article 78 against the warden of the prison in the New York Supreme Court. The plaintiff alleged that he suffered a disciplinary deprivation of good time in violation of his due process rights. On January 8, 1974, the Court (Judge Ernst H. Rosenberger) granted declaratory and injunctive relief to the plaintiff, holding that he had not been afforded the necessary due process when the defendants faile…
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State ex rel. Williams v. Dep't of Military Affairs of Pub. Safety

30407 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2001

On August 28, 2001, an inmate at the Huttonsville Correctional Center filed a pro se petition for writs of mandamus in the Supreme Court of Appeals for West Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that he had been denied rehabilitative services during his incarceration and that he had been improperly placed on restrictive status. On September 19, 2001, the same inmate filed a pro se petition for habeas corpus in the same court, challenging the prison's procedures for restoring good time credit and th…