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Miller v. Commissioner of Correction

92-P-665 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: April 9, 1984

On April 9, 1984, a patient at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Judge Robert E. Keeton). The plaintiff alleged that the Department of Corrections had violated his civil rights by depriving him of his rights to reasonable telephone access, unopened privileged mail, and treatment for his mental problems due …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Luciani v. Virginia State Board of Elections

7:20-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 13, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 16, 2020

On July 13, 2020, an independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (“the plaintiff”) sued the Virginia Department of Elections, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and its officers (“the defendants”) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia to enjoin the defendants from enforcing the state’s signature requirement for the 2020 election. The plaintiff, filing this case pro se, alleged that in light of Virginia’s state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandem…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Fitzharris

65-44786 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 14, 1965

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 1966

In approximately 1966, an inmate at the California Correctional Training Facility at Soledad filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, who initially brought the proceeding on his own behalf and then was represented by court-appointed private counsel, asked the court for injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. McGinnis

62-cv-28785 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: 1962

Closed Date: Oct. 26, 1964

This is a historic case about religious liberty in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  In 1964, Sostre and other individuals incarcerated at Attica sued the New York Commissioner of Correction and the warden of Attica under §1983. Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant violated their rights with respect to their religious practice, in…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pierce v. LaVallee

1:59-cv-07813 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: 1959

Closed Date: June 17, 1963

This is a historic case about religious liberty and discipline in New York prisons. It's part of the Clearinghouse's collection of several cases brought by prisoners rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Sostre brought this lawsuit to challenge policies surrounding religious expression at Clinton State Prison in New York. In August 1959, prison officials charged Sostre and two other individuals with “agitating.” The plaintiffs sued the Clinton State P…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. Otis

1:70-cv-01114 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: March 1, 1970

This is a historic case about the receipt of mail in New York prisons, one of the Clearinghouse's  collection of cases brought by prisoners' rights activist Martin Sostre, whose wikipedia biography is here.  Martin Sostre sought an order enjoining the officers at Wallkill Correctional Facility from interfering with his receipt of literature which he ordered through the prison mail. He had been transferred to that prison in early August 1969. Sostre sued the former Walkill warden and the former …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sostre v. Rockefeller

1:68-cv-04058 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Oct. 15, 1968

Closed Date: March 15, 1972

This is a historic case about mail censorship, religious discrimination, and solitary confinement issues in New York prisons.  It's one of several brought by prisoners' rights activist (and prisoner) Martin Sostre, whose Wikipedia bio is here.    On June 25, 1968, Martin Sostre, a New York prisoner, was ordered into punitive segregation based on alleged rule infractions. To challenge this order, he filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 15…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Rogers v. Colorado Department of Corrections

1:16-cv-02733 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Nov. 3, 2016

Case Ongoing

On November 3, 2016, a woman incarcerated in the custody of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The plaintiff sued the State of Colorado, the Colorado Department of Corrections, and the Warden of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages. She claimed that defendants violated the ADA as well as her constitutional rights to du…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Crofton v. Spaulding

2:94-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: June 13, 1994

Closed Date: 1997

On October 11, 1995, Clayton Crofton, a Washington state inmate brought a pro se civil rights action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, challenging a Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) regulation that prohibited receipt by a prisoner of gift magazine subscriptions. The inmate sought injunctive relief and monetary damages.On May 14, 1996, the District Court (Magistrate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno) issued an order and judgment granting in part plaintiff's claim for in…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Patchette v. Nix

4:90-cv-80230 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 24, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On October 11, 1989, prisoners from the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Iowa State Penitentiary's Warden and the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, represented by court-appointed counsel, alleged that prison overcrowding produced conditions that made incarceration cruel and unusual punishment and that new visitation policies and pract…