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JAIL CONDITIONS
Pierce v. County of San Francisco

4:19-cv-07659 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

This case concerns allegations by pretrial detainees of insufficient access to sunlight, fresh air, and recreation time, as well as being subjected to illegal strip searches. On November 21, 2019, the Plaintiff, a pretrial detainee, filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated inmates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the County of San Francisco (“County”), as well as named and unnamed officials and employ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Munday v. Beaufort County

9:20-cv-02144 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

Case Ongoing

This is a lawsuit concerning the allegedly unconstitutional manner in which female inmates were searched at the Beaufort County Detention Center (“BCDC”) in Beaufort, South Carolina. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that between February, 2015 through May, 2020, BCDC had a policy of strip searching all female pre-classification detainees upon entry into the facility, but not similarly-situated male detainees. It was brought by two individual female pre-classification detainees at BCDC who were…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Garcia v. Ocean County

3:07-cv-05665 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2007

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

On November 28, 2007, five arrestees, proceeding through private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in order to challenge the blanket strip search policy of the Ocean County Correctional Facility. The named plaintiffs alleged that they were all arrested for misdemeanor or petty crimes and, upon their admission to the jail, were strip searched pursuant to the unconstitutional blanket policy of strip searching every pre…
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 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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive relie…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

Case Ongoing

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under th…
POLICING
McCormick v. Lawrence, Kansas

2002-cv-000512 | Kansas state trial court

Filed Date: Sept. 24, 2002

Closed Date: Oct. 29, 2007

On September 24, 2002, Plaintiff filed a lawsuit under K.S.A. 22-2521, K.S.A. 22-2522, and K.S.A. 22-2523 against the City of Lawrence and Lawrence police officers in the Douglas District Court. Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked for actual damages and costs, alleging that Lawrence police officers illegally subjected him to a strip and body cavity search. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that on June 9, 1999, Lawrence police officers arrested him and put him in the back of a patrol…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graff v. County of Salem

1:07-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: May 7, 2009

On May 14, 2007, two individuals who had been arrested on minor charges filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging the Salem County Correctional Department's policy and practice of strip searching all detainees regardless of the nature of their charged crime and regardless of the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the detainees were concealing weapons or contraband. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleg…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Black v. Franklin County, KY

3:05-cv-00018 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 28, 2005

Closed Date: Aug. 20, 2007

On March 28, 2005, three female plaintiffs, who had been arrested for minor offenses and were strip searched, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky against Franklin County, Kentucky and Franklin County Correctional Complex. The plaintiffs challenged the strip search policy of the Franklin County Correctional Complex, alleging that they were strip searched pursuant to a blanket policy which required all female pretrial detainees ent…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's Department

2:04-cv-02701 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 26, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2012

On November 26, 2004, the plaintiff brought this action pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix Division. While the plaintiff had been a pretrial detainee in a minimum-security facility, Maricopa County jail officials ordered a search of his entire housing unit. The plaintiff alleged that during the search, a female training cadet conducted a partial strip search and pat down of his groin area despite the availability of male detention offic…