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McDonald v. Franklin County

2:13-cv-00503 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 3, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Franklin County’s policy of strip-searching individuals charged with low-level misdemeanor offenses and photographing their tattoos. The plaintiff, a resident of Franklin County, was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2012 and transported to the Franklin County Correction Center II (“Jackson Pike” facility). She was required to strip in the presence of other detained people and a male correctional officer who then photographed tattoos near her genitals. She was releas…
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Braasch v. Gunter

4:83-00459 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: 1983

In 1983, male prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of Nebraska against officials of the Nebraska Department of Corrections. Plaintiffs complained of defendants' policies and practices allowing female correctional staff to view male prisoners in the nude or in various states of undress. Braasch v. Gunter was consolidated with Nielson v. Gunter for trial in April 1985. In the June 1985 decision, the Magistrate Judge David L. Pieste…
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Henry v. Hulett

3:12-cv-03087 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 20, 2012

Case Ongoing

On March 31, 2011, female prisoners at an Illinois women’s prison were strip searched as part of a training exercise for new guards. Several of the prisoners filed this putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The plaintiffs sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, Lincoln Correctional Center, and Logan Correctional Center under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Represented by civil rights attorneys Loevy…
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Long v. Norris

3:86-00516 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Filed Date: July 1, 1992

In December 1985, inmates and former inmates at the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility in Tennessee filed three lawsuits against the Tennessee Department of Corrections and the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Male inmates and their wives or fiancés brought three damage actions, which were later consolidated, challenging visitation policies at the prison. Plaintiffs, re…
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In re: Texas Prison Litigation

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

Filed Date: April 4, 2022

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. …
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Bono v. Saxbe

3:74-cv-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: April 8, 1974

Closed Date: Dec. 24, 1980

Plaintiffs, a group of federal prisoners housed in a highly restrictive setting and represented by private counsel from the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance's Marion Prisoners' Rights Project, the ACLU and the New Hampshire Legal Assistance, sued federal Bureau of Prisons officials in 1974, filing their complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. The complaint sought class action status for all present and future prisoners housed in the Marion Federal Penitentiar…
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Smith v. Dawson County, NE

4:86-cv-00851 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 1986

In 1986, a man who had been an arrestee and a inmate at the Dawson County Jail in Lexington, Nebraska filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the county sheriff, the county, and various officers in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiff sought damages and an injunction, claiming that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated. Specifically, the Plaintiff alleged that the blanket policy of strip searching and spraying all detainees with insecticide constitute…
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Dobrowolskyj v. Jefferson County, Kentucky

3:85-cv-00406 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: April 17, 1985

Closed Date: 1987

In 1985, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the Jefferson County Jail, its director, and the county in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, alleged that Defendants' blanket policy of strip-searching pretrial detainees without reasonable suspicion was unconstitutional.Plaintiff was arrested for menacing, a misdemeanor. Plaintiff waited in a holding cell in the Jefferson County Jail for his lawyer to post his bond. Howe…
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DiMattesa v. Davies

2:85-03426 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: June 17, 1985

Plaintiffs in this 1985 strip search case were arrested and charged with prostitution by the Delaware County Pennsylvania Detective's Office and forced to undergo "gynecological examination/strip search[es]." They filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claiming the searches were conducted without probable cause to believe that any contraband was hidden on their bodies. Additionally, plaintiffs claimed that the physician who conducted the searches removed…
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Jones v. Edwards

8:82-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: May 24, 1982

Plaintiff, an arrestee, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Lincoln County and the City of North Platte, Nebraska in the United States Court for the District of Nebraska. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, claimed that his Fourth Amendment rights had been violated. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that a strip search conducted without any reasonable suspicion of a security threat violated his constitutional rights.On April 30, 1981, in the city of North Platte, Nebras…