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Chimenti v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2:15-cv-03333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 12, 2015

Closed Date: Oct. 18, 2022

On June 12, 2015, three individuals incarcerated and suffering from complications due to Hepatitis C viral infections filed this class action suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of the Eighth Amendment, and of Article I § 13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Represented by private counsel and the PA Institutional Law Project, the plaintiffs alleged that th…
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Caron v. Coppinger

1:25-cv-11075 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: April 23, 2025

Case Ongoing

This summary is temporary, while we research the case.  Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLS) filed this federal class action lawsuit challenging the Essex County Sheriff Office's refusal to provide Hepatitis C treatment to people in their custody. Hepatitis C is treatable using direct-acting antiviral medications. The complaint, filed on April 23, 2025 in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, asserts that the failure violates the constitution's mandate for adequate medical care …
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Jensen v. Thornell

2:12-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

This case is a direct descendant of Gamez v. Ryan, which was dismissed with prejudice on March 21, 2012. The district court judge determined that the sudden expansion of the case to include thirteen new plaintiffs and class treatment in the third amended complaint was not within the court's contemplation when it permitted the plaintiff to file a third amended complaint. On March 22, 2012, fourteen Arizona prisoners brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
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Turney v. Atencio

1:18-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2023

Plaintiffs, who have Hepatitis C, were incarcerated by the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC). On January 3, 2018, they filed a putative class action lawsuit in forma pauperis in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho alleging that IDOC refused to provide treatment required by medical standards of care. Plaintiffs sued IDOC in its official capacity as well as administrators and medical personnel at IDOC. Plaintiffs also sued Corizon, Inc., a for-profit company that contr…
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Roppolo v. Linthicum

2:19-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2019

Case Ongoing

On September 11, 2017, individuals with Hepatitis C detained by the state of Texas brought this suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its medical providers: Correctional Managed Healthcare Committee and the University of Texas Medical Branch. Hepatitis C, if left untreated, causes severe damage to a person’s liver. Yet Texas refused to provide Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) medications to persons in custody of its state prison system, which the plaintiffs alleged viola…
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West v. Gobeille

2:19-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Filed Date: May 21, 2019

Closed Date: 2023

On May 21, 2019, incarcerated individuals in Vermont with chronic hepatitis C (HCV) filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and Judge William K. Sessions III presided. The plaintiffs alleged that the Vermont Department of Corrections, its leadership, and its medical contractors violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by withholding treatment from incarcerated individuals wit…
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V.C. v. District of Columbia

1:23-cv-01139 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: April 24, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about whether the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to provide constitutionally adequate health care to inmates in its detention facilities. On April 24, 2023, three individuals currently held in the Central Detention Facility and the Correctional Treatment Facility (“the Jail”) brought a putative class action lawsuit against the District of Columbia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The case was assigned to Judge Colleen Kollar-Ko…
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Melnik v. Aranas

2:17-cv-02378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 25, 2023

On September 5, 2017, plaintiff, a person incarcerated in the custody of the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), initiated this lawsuit (pro se, initially) by filing a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. By direction of the court, plaintiff's complaint was docketed on July 2, 2018.  Plaintiff sued the Medical Director of NDOC, alleging that he was denied treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) from 2015-2017, even though he was…
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Brash v. Wexford Health Source, Inc.

2:02-cv-14331 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2002

On December 6, 2002, a prisoner in Florida's Okeechobee Correctional Institution (OCI), represented by counsel from the Florida Justice Institute, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was being violated by the defendants' failure to provide him appropriate medical care. The lead defendant was Florida's contract medical service provider for OCI; als…
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Turner v. Wetzel

4:18-cv-00361 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2018

Case Ongoing

Plaintiff, a person serving a life sentence in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, was diagnosed with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the mid 1990s and, in this lawsuit, sought to compel the Department to provide direct acting antiviral (DAA) treatment.  On January 19, 2018, plaintiff filed this action pro se in the Court of Common Pleas for Schuylkill County against various employees of the Department of Corrections ("DOC defendants") and Correct Care Solutions, the Departmen…