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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. San Diego

3:91-cv-00764 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: June 5, 1991

Closed Date: 1996

On June 5, 1991, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit in the District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking an injunction barring San Diego County from denying the DOJ full access to the San Diego jail system. The DOJ sought to conduct a preliminary investigation for violations of constitutional rights under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On July 22, 1991, the District Court (Judge John Rhoades) determined that the county's attempts to use sta…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Hunt v. Meszaros

2:91-cv-02564 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 1991

Closed Date: 1999

On September 6, 1991, Mary Hunt, a resident of the Great Oaks Center for developmentally disabled persons in Silver Springs, Maryland, filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the State of Maryland, the administrator of Great Oaks Center, and both the Secretary and Director of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The plaintiffs, including all persons then or who may in the future be confined at Great Oaks Center,…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Virginia

1:96-cv-00283 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: March 4, 1996

Closed Date: June 3, 1998

On May 4, 1990, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced, in a letter to the Governor of Virginia, its intent to launch an investigation, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., into conditions at the Northern Virginia Training Center (NVTC), an institution for individuals with developmental disabilities in Fairfax, Virginia. Five experts from the Department of Justice toured the facility, reviewed policies …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
People First of Wash. v. Rainer RHC

3:96-cv-05906 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1996

Closed Date: 1999

On October 21, 1996, four advocacy groups, the People First of Washington, the Arc of Washington State, the Autism Society of Washington, and the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS), and several individuals filed a class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, challenging the dangerous conditions at Rainier School, Washington's largest state-operated residential habilitation center for people with i…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Amos v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services

1:91-cv-00508 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 1991

Closed Date: March 28, 2000

In 1991, a group of disabled Maryland state prisoners incarcerated at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, Maryland, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in federal district court for the District of Maryland against the prison and officials for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. The suit alleged that officials discriminated against the plaintiffs because of their disabilities, in violation of …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Many Horses v. Racicot

2:93-cv-00037 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 21, 1993

On April 21, 1993, a class of women prisoners incarcerated at the Women's Correctional Center ("WCC") in Warm Springs, Montana, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the Montana governor and Department of Corrections, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of their First, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights; the Rehabilitative Act of 1973; and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. More particularly, the plaintiffs, w…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sandoval v. Lopez

1:02-cv-00170 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Feb. 12, 2002

Closed Date: 2005

On Feb. 12, 2002, plaintiff Anthony J. Sandoval, a prisoner at New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe, filed a Section 1983 suit, pro se, in the District of New Mexico against officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. Plaintiff alleged that defendants used excessive force in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. In October 2002, plaintiffs in a related class action suit, Ayers v. Perry (PC-NM-003), sought to consolidate the two cases arguing that both lawsuits "involve con…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ilick v. Miller

3:94-00314 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 15, 1994

Closed Date: 2000

On 5/15/1994, inmates at Ely State Prison, represented by the ACLU National Prison Project, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nevada, against officials of the Nevada Department of Prisons. Plaintiffs claimed that Defendants deliberately subjected them to injury and risk of injury from a ""shoot to injure"" policy enforced in non-threatening situations. Plaintiffs also complained of inadequate medical and mental health care, denial of meaningful access to the court, and…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Eng v. Smith

1:80-cv-00385 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: May 5, 1980

Closed Date: 2002

On May 5, 1980, inmates of the Special Housing Unit in the Attica Correctional Facility in New York filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, asked the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief and alleged the following constitutional violations: the use of excessive force by p…