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JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety, …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Davis v. Buckley

3:80-00569 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 22, 1980

Closed Date: April 25, 1983

In 1980, a intellectually disabled resident of the Southside Virginia Training Center ("Southside") filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of himself and 98 other Southside residents with intellectual disabilities who desired community placement. Plaintiffs, represented by the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society and the Peninsula Legal Aid Center, sought declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the defendants, who included So…
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Michigan

2:97-cv-71514 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: March 10, 1997

Closed Date: 2007

On May 27, 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Crane Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Michigan and the Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth, Michigan (medium security prisons for women) pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The state refused to allow the DOJ access to the prisons to conduct an investigation, and declined to negotiate with the DOJ or resolve the al…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. The ESAB Group, Inc.

1:00-cv-02497 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2000

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2002

In September 2000, the Cleveland District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against The ESAB Group, Inc. and United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), Local 1834, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant continuously published and failed to keep confidentia…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
EEOC v. Corrections Corporation of America

1:06-cv-01956 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2006

Closed Date: 2012

On September 29, 2006, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against Crowley County Correctional Facility, a Colorado prison, and related corporate entities. The complaint was brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that the defendant allowed female employees to be sexually harassed by their co-workers, and that when some of them complained, the employer retaliated by subjecting them to increased scrutiny…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Texas (DOJ CRIPA lawsuit involving many State Schools)

1:09-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: June 26, 2009

On December 11, 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division sent a "findings letter" to the governor of Texas, advising him of the results of its investigation into conditions and practices at the Lubbock State School ("LSS"), which housed people with developmental disabilities. The DOJ advised that its investigation found that conditions and services at LSS substantially departed from generally accepted standards of care. The DOJ issued additional "findings letters" on Decembe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. State of Hawaii [Oahu Correctional Center]

1:08-cv-00585 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2008

Closed Date: June 25, 2015

On June 16, 2005, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, commenced an investigation into mental health care conditions and practices at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on its investigation, the DOJ concluded that the conditions and practices at the Jail violated the constitutional rights of convicted incarcerated persons and pre-trial detained p…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. King County, Washington

2:09-cv-00059 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2009

Closed Date: Feb. 26, 2009

In October 2006, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, acting pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., commenced an investigation into the conditions of confinement at the King County Correctional Facility ("KCCF"). During the course of this investigation, the DOJ conducted on-site inspections of the jail, held interviews with staff and prisoners, and reviewed numerous documents (including jail policies and procedu…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Wallace v. Powell/H.T. v. Ciavarella

3:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2009

Closed Date: Aug. 16, 2022

This case grew out of the criminal misconduct of two state court juvenile judges who sent hundreds of children to juvenile detention facilities because of bribes paid by the companies that ran those detention facilities. On February 13, 2009, the plaintiffs--children who had been adjudicated delinquent found to have violated their probation and parents of those children--brought this class action lawsuit against the judges. The plaintiffs, represented by multiple firms, sought damages against t…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
District Council 37 v. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

1:93-cv-02580 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 20, 1993

Closed Date: 1997

On April 20, 1993, plaintiffs, a class of 145 manual laborers formerly employed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (the "Parks Department"), and the labor union representing such employees, brought this action against the Parks Department, the City of New York and the New York City Department of Personnel (collectively "defendants") under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §626 et seq. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New …