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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…
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Ashker v. Brown

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

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2009

Closed Date: March 11, 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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Liberty v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections

1:19-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 2019

Case Ongoing

On October 25, 2019, detainees with serious and persistent mental illness who were held in solitary confinement—many for prolonged periods of time—filed this putative class action lawsuit along with Disability Rights Rhode Island, the state Protection and Advocacy Agency, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs sued the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) and its officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Mohrbacher v. Alameda County Sheriffs Office

3:18-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 4, 2018

Case Ongoing

On January 4, 2018, six women prisoners filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging systematic, misogynistic mistreatment of women prisoners at the Alameda County Jail in Santa Rita, California. The plaintiffs sued Alameda County and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for violations of their rights under the U.S. Constitution and state law. Represented by private counsel, they sought monetary, injunctive, and declaratory…
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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
Reynolds v. Arnone

3:13-cv-01465 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2013

Case Ongoing

On October 4, 2013, a death row inmate at the Connecticut Northern Correctional Institution (NCI) filed this lawsuit pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiff sued the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections and six other state officials in their official and individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief, including a release from 23 hour-p…
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Greenhill v. Clarke

7:16-cv-00068 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 19, 2016

Closed Date: Aug. 10, 2020

On February 19, 2016, the plaintiff, a Muslim person incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison, filed this pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, alleging a violation of his right to free expression. He sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and several of its employees, individually and in their official capacities, under 48 U.S.C. § 1983, the Declaratory Judgment Act, and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). H…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
G.H. v. Marstiller

4:19-cv-00431 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Sept. 4, 2019

Closed Date: Sept. 8, 2022

On September 4, 2019, three minors—through their legal guardians—filed a complaint against the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by lawyers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Florida Justice Institute, and Florida Legal Services, sought class action certification to represent several thousand juveniles (and several hundred in a subclass of juveniles with disabilities) who were or would be …
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CRIPA Investigation of the Westchester County Jail, Valhalla, New York

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On August 30, 2007 the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) notified the County of Westchester that it was opening an investigation into the conditions of the Westchester County Jail (“WCJ”) in Valhalla, New York , pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1997 et seq. On November 19, 2009, the DOJ sent it its Findings Letter to the WCJ. The letter stated that certain conditions at the jail violated the constitutional rights of inmates. In particular, the WCJ failed t…