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Harrelson v. Elmore County

2:94-cv-00520 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 3, 1994

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 1995

A paraplegic inmate filed a lawsuit on May 3, 1994 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the First, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, various state laws, and a consent decree (in some unnamed case, entered 11/10/1992). The plaintiff alleged that he was denied use of his wheelchair, was not provided with toilet or shower facilities designed for disabled persons, was no…
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Thomas v. Tallapoosa County

3:87-01319 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1987

On November 19, 1987, an inmate at the Tallapoosa County Jail ("County Jail") in Alabama filed a pro se complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that the Alabama Department of Corrections was incarcerating state prisoners in the County Jail, exacerbating the already overcrowded condition of the County Jail, and that no provisions had been made to accommodate these state prisoner…
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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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People v. McOwens

No. C006755 | California state appellate court

Filed Date: 1989

This case is a challenge in California state court of pre-sentence custody time credit for a criminal defendant, following a federal court decree concerning work time credits for certain inmates.In the earlier case (whose title we do not know), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a consent decree on August 4, 1987, concerning overcrowding conditions at the jail in Yolo County, California (JC-CA-017). The consent decree provided that in order to maintai…
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Avant v. Rice

8:91-cv-00748 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: June 14, 1991

Closed Date: Nov. 19, 1992

In 1991, plaintiff filed a section 1983 action against employees of the Pinellas County Jail for opening his legal mail outside his presence. The district court for the Middle District of Florida (Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich) forwarded plaintiff's complaint to the consent monitor appointed in the Davis v. Roberts case (JC-FL-012) pursuant to the consent decree established to resolve problems related to unconstitutional jail conditions and practices. The monitor recommended that plaintiff's c…
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Cottone v. Jenne

0:00-cv-07545 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Oct. 19, 2000

Closed Date: July 20, 2006

Plaintiff, a personal representative for his son, sued numerous defendants associated with the Broward County Detention Center in Florida after his son, a pretrial detainee, died at the hands of a mentally ill co-inmate. The detention center was subject to a consent decree from Carruthers v. Cochran (JC-FL-008) that required the jail to institute a system of classification, separation, and monitoring of inmates. In 2002, the district court for the Southern District of Florida (Judge William J…
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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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Ortiz v. Turner

4:77-02099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 1977

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 1987

Inmates in Illinois filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois alleging that prison officials failed to keep Alexander County Jail to minimum standards. Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance and Saint Louis University Law School represented the plaintiffs. Citing Bush v. Viterna, 795 F.2d 1203 (5th Cir. 1986), Illinois Department of Corrections officials filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. In a January 8, 1987 order, the court (Chief Judge James L. Foreman) g…
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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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Handlin v. Garvey

1:91-cv-06777 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 8, 1991

Closed Date: 1998

On October 8, 1991, prisoners at the Orange County Jail in New York filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs asked the court for injunctive relief and $1 million dollars each, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by the jail's insufficiencies in the areas of medical care, dental care, law library, dining facilities, and recreational programs, as wel…