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PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority

2:20-cv-00410 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 5, 2020

Closed Date: July 31, 2024

After a two-year investigation initiated in December 2016 under CRIPA and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Notice on December 19, 2018 concluding that the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority (“HRRJ”) failed to provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care to incarcerated peoples and placed people with serious mental illness in restrictive housing for prolonged periods of time. The DOJ also concluded that HRRJ’s …
PRISON CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Alabama

2:15-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 28, 2015

Case Ongoing

On February 26, 2013, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent notice to the Alabama Department of Corrections that it would be conducting an investigation of the Julia Tutwiler Prison. The investigation sought to address allegations that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse by prison staff in violation of their constitutional rights; allegations that the prison failed to report and prevent sexual abuse; and allegations that the prison failed to provide adequate mental health an…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Parsons v. Ryan

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

Filed Date: March 22, 2012

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: In this preexisting class action addressing medical care in Arizona's prisons, the district court denied COVID-19 emergency relief on March 23, 2020. Notwithstanding the grave threats posed by congregate imprisonment during the pandemic, the court held that the emergency measures sought by the plaintiffs were outside of its authority under the settlement agreement in this case. However, the Court did (subsequently) order Arizona to disclose to class counsel who had been tested…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

Case Ongoing

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and the Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, m…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Braggs v. Dunn

2:14-cv-00601 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: June 17, 2014

Case Ongoing

This case concerns alleged systemic failures to provide mental and physical healthcare in Alabama prisons. On June 17, 2014, prisoners and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (“ADAP”) filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by the Southern Poverty Law C…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Scott v. Clarke

3:12-cv-00036 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 24, 2012

Case Ongoing

Prisoners detained at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women filed this class-action lawsuit against Armor Correctional Health Services and the Virginia Department of Corrections on July 24, 2012. Brought under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and 28 U.S.C. §2201, the suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and assigned to Judge Norman Moon. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ashker v. Brown

4:09-cv-05796 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: Jan. 23, 2024

On December 9, 2009, two prisoners at California's Pelican Bay prison who had been kept in solitary confinement for decades filed this § 1983 action against the State of California in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, originally proceeding pro se, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive, and compensatory relief, claiming violations of their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the "in…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hunter v. Beshear

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

On September 30, 2016, three individuals with severe mental illness deemed incompetent to stand trial in criminal proceedings against them filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs sued the Alabama Department of Mental Health under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The plaintiffs, represented by the Alabama Disability Advocacy Program, the ACLU of Alabama Foundation, and private counsel, sought de…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Prison Legal News v. Berkeley County Sheriff

2:10-cv-02594 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Oct. 6, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 14, 2014

On October 6, 2010, the Prison Legal News filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for South Carolina under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Berkeley County. The plaintiffs, represented by public interest counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, claiming that the defendants unlawfully censored and excluded the plaintiffs' books and magazines protected by the 1st and 14th Amendments, which are sent to individual subscribers in custody at the B…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

Case Ongoing

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…