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JAIL CONDITIONS
Bull v. City and County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-01840 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 23, 2003

Closed Date: 2013

On April 23, 2003, nine plaintiffs, acting through private attorneys, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the strip search policy of the City and County of San Francisco ("CCSF"). Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that, under CCSF policy, all prisoners who were placed in the general jail population at the CCSF's jails were subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches, with those refusing to consent be…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Price v. Jefferson County

3:91-cv-00144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 7, 1991

Closed Date: 2001

Inmates at the Jefferson County Corrections Department, represented by private attorneys, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on March 7, 1991, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that they were strip-searched by county corrections officials in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Corrections maintained an unconstitutional blanket policy to strip-search all arrestees regardless of …
JAIL CONDITIONS
John Does 1-100 v. Boyd

4:84-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: April 20, 1984

Four anonymous pretrial detainees brought a section 1983 action against the Dakota County Sheriff, complaining that the county jail's indiscriminate strip search policy was unconstitutional as applied to them and to similarly situated individuals, specifically pretrial detainees arrested for traffic offenses, regulatory offenses, bench warrants, and misdemeanors. On July 31, 1985, the District Court in Minnesota (Judge Harry MacLaughlin) granted plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment against …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. O'Brien and Bullington v. Moreland

4:76-00210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 9, 1976

On May 30, 1979, Robert Burlington, a pre-trial detainee at St. Louis County Jail in Clayton, Missouri, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against St. Louis County officials regarding conditions at the jail. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all pre-trial detainees at the St. Louis County Jail. Burlington filed the lawsuit pro se. In 1980, this case was consolidated with a previous lawsuit filed in 1976. That lawsuit, Johnson v. O'Brien…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Shain v. Ellison

0:96-cv-03774 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Filed Date: July 29, 1996

Closed Date: 2004

On July 29, 1996, a previous pretrial detainee at the Nassau county Correctional Center (NCCC) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against the County Sheriff, an unnamed assistant district attorney, and a family court judge alleging excessive use of force, unconstitutional strip search, false arrest, abuse of process, and malicious prosecution. He also sought a declaration that New York State Family Court Act § 155(2) which allo…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
H.C. v. Jarrard

4:79-00830 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 19, 1979

On or about 1979, juvenile detainees filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by Central Florida Legal Services, specifically alleged that the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center's policy of performing strip searches and cavity inspections several times a day violated their constitutional rights and th…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Holladay

1:77-00074 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: June 17, 1977

Closed Date: April 1, 1982

In May 1977, male juvenile students in a Montana correctional institution filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Pine Hills School ("PHS") correctional institution. Plaintiffs, represented by Montana Legal Services Association and the National Juvenile Law Center of St. Louis University, complained primarily of the policies directed toward the maximum-security unit at PHS.…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Santiago v. Philadelphia

2:74-02589 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1974

In October of 1974, juvenile inmates at the Philadelphia Youth Study Center (YSC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 2000d against the City of Philadelphia and local Family Court judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia, and private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, and punitive damages for those members of the class that su…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Clarence M. v. Yakima Co

2:78-cv-00166 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

Filed Date: June 22, 1978

Closed Date: 1982

On June 22, 1978, juveniles detained at the Yakima County Juvenile Detention Center in Washington brought a class action lawsuit in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington against the Yakima County Board of County Commissioners, Yakima County Juvenile Superior Court, and the Director of the Yakima County Juvenile Department. The plaintiffs, represented by Evergreen Legal Services, sought declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for alleged constituti…
PRISON CONDITIONS
In re: Texas Prison Litigation

2:99-cv-04021 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 1999

Closed Date: 2002

This was a class-action prisoner lawsuit filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Plaintiffs were Missouri prisoners who were transferred from Missouri state-penal institutions to jails in Texas pursuant to the "Texas Cell Lease Program," a contract between the Missouri Department of Corrections [DOC] and several Texas counties and a city whereby the Texas entities agreed to house and supervise the Missouri prisoners in exchange for money. …