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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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dittimus-Bey v. Taylor

1:05-cv-00063 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2005

Closed Date: June 30, 2019

After eleven years of litigation and five failed consent decrees, Camden County, New Jersey corrections officials agreed to pay $160,000 to settle a federal civil rights suit that alleged severe overcrowding, sanitation, poor nutrition, and environmental violations of prisoners’ rights. On January 6, 2005, plaintiffs filed pro se action alleging that severe overcrowding at the Camden County Correctional Facility (“CCCF”) had caused serious deprivations of their health and safety in violation of…
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United States v. Cumberland County

1:23-cv-02655 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

This was a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), who alleged that the Cumberland County jail failed to provide constitutionally adequate mental healthcare to prisoners who were at risk of suicide or self-harm. The DOJ Civil Rights Division filed a complaint and proposed consent decree under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) on May 17, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Cumberland County and the Cumberland Cou…
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United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

Case Ongoing

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
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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 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, mecha…
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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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duvall v. Glendening (Duvall v. Hogan)

1:94-cv-02541 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Sept. 14, 1994

Case Ongoing

This case was brought in 1976 in the federal district court for the District of Maryland under Section 1983 by inmates at the Baltimore City Jail against both state and city officials of the Baltimore, Maryland prison system. The plaintiffs complained of overcrowding and conditions of confinement at the Baltimore City Jail, which resulted in a consent agreement setting capacity limitations, eliminating double celling and providing other services. In April 1981, the case was consolidated with Co…
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Adams & Knights v. Kentucky

3:14-cv-00001 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 2014

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 2020

On January 1, 2014, represented by private counsel and the Washington Lawyers' Committee Prisoners Rights Project, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in the Kentucky prison system filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated against the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet (JPSC), the Department of Corrections (KDOC), and eight individuals serving in leadership roles at JP…
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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 …
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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…