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Hamilton v. Love

4:70-00201 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1970

On September 30, 1970, five inmates of the Pulaski County, Arkansas, jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the county sheriff, jail superintendent, and county judge. The plaintiffs, represented by legal services attorneys, sought declaratory judgment, injunctions and "other appropriate relief," citing a list of twenty areas of concern, including over-crowding, insufficient number of guards to protect the in…
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Carruthers v. Israel (Jonas v. Stack)

0:76-cv-06086 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1976

On August 10, 1976, persons at North Broward Detention Center filed this action pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs sued Broward County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. At the time, the county's main jail was in the old courthouse where 1,200 inmates were packed into cells designed for 275. The Court appointed counsel and the parties went on to litigate the claims. We have only limited information on the first 18 years of the case; the docket …
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Fambro v. Fulton County

1:82-cv-02136 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1982

Closed Date: 2004

On September 29, 1982, inmates at the Fulton County Jail filed a class action lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs were represented by Georgia Legal Services Program and Atlanta Legal Aid Society.Because this case predates PACER, we do not have access to the docket prior to February 4, 1991. We know from the procedural history in a later opinion that in 1984, the district court issu…
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Brown v. Beck

1:77-cv-00056 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 28, 1977

Closed Date: 1998

On April 28, 1977, plaintiffs filed a class action suit against officials at the Richmond County Jail ("Richmond") in Augusta, Georgia. The United States District Court in the Southern District of Georgia certified the class and subsequently created sub-classes. After a year of litigation, the parties negotiated a stipulation, and the court entered a consent decree in 1978. A year later, plaintiffs filed a motion for a judgment of contempt because of inadequate medical treatment of an inmate…
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Duran v. Elrod

1:74-cv-02949 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Oct. 11, 1974

Closed Date: Nov. 30, 2011

On October 11, 1974, pretrial detainees in the custody of the Cook County, Illinois, Department of Corrections brought a class action suit against county officials under 42 U.S.C. §1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging violations of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by failing to provide safe and humane conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs were represented in part by the MacArthur Justice Center of the University of Chicago. The District C…
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Kelley v. Hodgson

98-3083 | Massachusetts state trial court

Filed Date: 1998

In 1998, inmates in the Bristol County Jail filed a class action suit on behalf of all present and future inmates challenging the overcrowded conditions at the jail. The Superior Court of Massachusetts for Suffolk County (Judge John C. Cratsley) enjoined defendant from using port-a-bunks, which allowed inmates to sleep on common areas floors, and from triple-bunking any cell. This preliminary injunction would last until November 16, 1998, when the new unit of the jail was scheduled for completi…
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Lozeau v. Lake County

9:95-cv-00082 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: June 30, 1995

Closed Date: 2000

On June 30, 1995, five inmates at the Lake County Jail in Polson, Montana, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding, poor maintenance of physical facilities, understaffing, poor classification pro…
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Poston v. Fox

1:80-01459 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 20, 1980

Closed Date: Jan. 12, 1984

Prisoners at the Cape May County Jail in New Jersey filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the county in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs alleged that the conditions at the jail violated the constitutionally mandated minimum standards in the areas of physical conditions of the jail, classification, health care, discipline, grievance procedures, food and diet, recreation, educational programs, visitation, clothing provided, and preferential treatmen…
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McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
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Monaco v. Stone

1:98-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1998

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2016

Background On May 5, 1998, inmates in the Suffolk County Jail in New York filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of all individuals with mental illnesses facing civil commitment in jails and state-run hospitals. The suit also contained some individual claims from an individual plaintiff who was confined in Suffolk County jail and claims from the Mental Disability Law Clinic of Touro Center. The named defendants were various state officials in New York, the New York State Office of M…