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JAIL CONDITIONS
York v. County of El Dorado

2:90-cv-00833 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: June 28, 1990

Closed Date: Jan. 18, 1994

Inmates at the El Dorado and South Lake Tahoe jails filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit against county officials in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on June 28, 1990. The case was originally assigned to Judge John F. Moulds, but was refereed to Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows for settlement purposes. Plaintiffs were represented by the Prisoner Rights Union. The case settled at conference, including a limitation on the population of both the Placerv…
JAIL CONDITIONS
CRIPA Investigation, Turner County (GA)

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: 1994

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Turner County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Turner County Board of Commissioners of its findings and made recommendations regarding policies and procedures, inmate supervision, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, general maintenance, overcrowding, sanitary facilities, personal hygiene, chemical…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Fluhr v. Roberts

3:77-00332 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 20, 1977

A prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Kentucky filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that the county had unconstitutionally failed to provide access to legal research materials. The defendants agreed to make some legal library resources available at the jail, and the court (Judge Thomas Ballantine) found that to be sufficient, holding that since the average stay at the jail was only a week, the jail was not require…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Wood County ADA Investigation

NA | No Court

In 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Wood County Sheriff's Department negotiated a settlement agreement after the DOJ investigated the County under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). According to the settlement, the Sheriff's Department agreed not to discriminate against any inmate on the basis of disability, to ensure effective communications with inmates with disabilities, to provide qualified interpreters, to ensure adequate housing for inmates with disabilities, to make …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Lackawanna County ADA Investigation

No Court Case | No Court

A deaf inmate filed a complaint with the United States Department of Justice against the Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Sheriff's Department under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), alleging that the Sheriff's Department failed to provide him with a telecommunications device for the deaf ("TTD") upon his request while he was incarcerated in the Lackawanna County Jail. Following a Department of Justice investigation, the United States and the Lackawanna County Sheriff's …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Chester County Prison ADA Investigation

DJ 204-62-70 | No Court

In 1994, a deaf inmate incarcerated at the Chester County Prison filed a complaint with the Department of Justice under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). That inmate alleged that Chester County Prison had not provided him with an interpreter for group therapy sessions and disciplinary hearings. The inmate's mother, who was mobility-impaired, also alleged that the visiting area was not accessible to people unable to climb two flights of stairs. She claimed that the prison…
JAIL CONDITIONS
In re DOJ Investigation, of the Virginia Beach (VA) Jail pursuant to CRIPA

No Court Case | No Court

On February 8. 1995, the U.S. Department of Justice commenced an investigation of the conditions at the Virginia Beach City Jail [VBCJ] pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et. seq. Based its investigation, the DOJ concluded that conditions at the VBJC were grossly deficient and violated the constitutional rights of prisoners, including overcrowding, staffing, violence, medical care, mental health care, due process, access to courts, religious…
JAIL CONDITIONS
National Prison Project & Arlington, VA Jail

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 1999

On February 1, 1999, the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union entered into an agreement with Thomas N. Faust, the Sheriff of Arlington Virginia, concerning allegations of sexual misconduct by eight former inmates against correctional officers at the Arlington County Jail. In consideration for a settlement of the inmates' claims against the officers, the Sheriff agreed to modifications of the jail's policies regarding prevention of sexual misconduct against female inmat…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Shaw v. San Francisco

915763 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1990

Closed Date: 1999

On February 8, 1990, Ronayne and Michael Shaw filed a lawsuit against San Francisco County under the California State Constitution, the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and 20 U.S.C. § 1401 (the Education of the Handicapped Act) in the San Francisco County Superior Court. They alleged that conditions at the county's juvenile detention facility, where one of their children had recently been confined, were deficient in the areas of facility maintenance, fire safety, fail…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Emily J. v. Weicker

3:93-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 1993

Closed Date: 2007

On September 27, 1993, juveniles detained at juvenile detention centers in Connecticut filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 5633, 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 29 U.S.C. § 794, against the state of Connecticut, in addition to various court administrators, detention centers and agencies. The class was composed of all present and future juveniles in the care, custo…