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Barrett v. West Chester Univeristy

2:03-cv-04978 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2003

Closed Date: 2007

On September 4, 2003, female students, on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated individuals, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 et seq. against West Chester University of Pennsylvania of the State System of Higher Education, also known as West Chester University. Plaintiffs, represented by private and public interest counsel, asked the court for declaratory …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ray v. Madison Co., et al

1:20-cv-02973 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 2020

Closed Date: June 23, 2021

On November 21, 2018, the plaintiff, a deaf woman, was arrested by the Anderson Police Department and transported to the Madison County Jail. The plaintiff was handcuffed behind her back while she was detained, preventing her from communicating using American Sign Language (ASL). Her requests for an interpreter were ignored and she was not provided with access to a qualified interpreter or other functional auxiliary aids (at one point, she was given a teletypewriter (TTY) but the facility lacke…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's Department

2:04-cv-02701 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2004

Case Ongoing

On November 26, 2004, Plaintiff brought this action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix Division. While Plaintiff was a pretrial detainee in a minimum-security facility, Maricopa County jail officials ordered a search of his entire housing unit. During the search, Plaintiff claims that a partial strip search and pat down of his groin area was conducted by a female training cadet despite the availability of male detention officers nearby.…
JAIL CONDITIONS
John Does 1-100 v. Boyd

4:84-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 20, 1984

Four anonymous pretrial detainees brought a section 1983 action against the Dakota County Sheriff, complaining that the county jail's indiscriminate strip search policy was unconstitutional as applied to them and to similarly situated individuals, specifically pretrial detainees arrested for traffic offenses, regulatory offenses, bench warrants, and misdemeanors. On July 31, 1985, the District Court in Minnesota (Judge Harry MacLaughlin) granted plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment against …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Friend v. Kolodzieczak

3:87-cv-00161 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 18, 1987

On July 18, 1987, a class of all Roman Catholic prisoners at Alameda County's North County Jail in California filed this civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to secure access to religious services and sacramental articles such as rosary beads and scapulars.At hearings on summary judgment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Marilyn H. Patel) found that issues regarding pri…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Mitchell County (GA)

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Mitchell County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Mitchell County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance procedures, exercise, visitation, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitati…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Marion County (GA)

NA | No Court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Marion County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Marion County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, exercise, grievance system, access to legal and reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, suicide prevention, fire safety, and food services. It app…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Lee County (GA)

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Lee County, Georgia, that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Lee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding security and supervision, new jail construction, exercise, nutrition, medical and mental healthcare, suicide prevention, fire safety, maintenance, personal hygiene, ventilation, and lighti…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Harris County (GA)

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Harris County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Harris County Board of Commissioners of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, access to legal and reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, general sanitation, fire safety, food service, and plumbing. It appears th…