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JAIL CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Love

4:70-00201 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 1970

On September 30, 1970, five inmates of the Pulaski County, Arkansas, jail filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the county sheriff, jail superintendent, and county judge. The plaintiffs, represented by legal services attorneys, sought declaratory judgment, injunctions and "other appropriate relief," citing a list of twenty areas of concern, including over-crowding, insufficient number of guards to protect the in…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Crittenden County

3:89-cv-00141 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 13, 1989

Closed Date: Nov. 27, 2001

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified the Crittenden County Jail ("Jail") of their intention to investigate conditions pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 on November 7, 1986. The Division released the findings of the investigation on June 1, 1987.The Division determined that the prisoners' access to medical care was grossly inadequate. Additionally, the report cited the lack of fire safety measures and the prese…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Terry v. Hill

4:01-cv-00458 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 7, 2001

On July 7, 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed suit in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Director of the Arkansas Division of Mental Health Services and the Sheriff of Sebastian County Jail, for violation of an inmate's due process rights to mental illness treatment of a pretrial detainee with a history of serious mental illness. The inmate was held in pretrial detention without a date set for trial while hi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hill v. Pulaski County

4:79-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Oct. 25, 1979

Closed Date: 2000

On October 25, 1979, inmates of the Pulaski County Jail in Arkansas filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas challenging the conditions of that facility. In 1985, the parties entered into a consent decree that established population limits for the jail and required the sheriff of Pulaski County to notify the Court if anyone attempted to contravene the agreement.  On November 10, 1988, the sheriff filed notice wi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Phillips v. Weeks

4:72-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 26, 1972

Closed Date: 1984

In January 1972, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging a pattern and practice of police brutality towards African-American visitors to Little Rock, Arkansas. The class consisted of all black persons who ever resided or visited the City of Little Rock, Arkansas. The trial began in December of 1974 and lasted 30 days. No pattern and practice of police brutality was found, but some specific incidents were substantiated. The pa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Campbell v. Cauthron

78-01838 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1978

In 1978, inmates at the Sebastian County jail filed a class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Eighth Amendment, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by overcrowding and lack of exercise, inadequate diet, forced exposure to religious witnessing, restricted visitation privileges, denial of access to newspapers, insufficient medical care, and inadequate security. The United States District Court for the Wes…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Howerton v. Mississippi County

3:71-00054 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1971

Closed Date: 1973

On September 29, 1971, former and present inmates of the Mississippi County (Arkansas) Penal Farm filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, alleging that the county had violated their constitutional rights by requiring them to work in unsafe conditions, providing them inadequate medical care and clothing, maintaining unsanitary showering and kitchen facilities at the jail, and failing to protect them from assaults by oth…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Thomas v. Mears

4:73-00026 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 1973

Closed Date: Dec. 31, 1980

In approximately 1973, juvenile offenders, represented by Central Arkansas Legal Services and private counsel, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Arkansas against Pulaski County officials challenging procedures employed with juvenile offenders. While we do not have a copy of the complaint, on August 13, 1979, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (Judge Thomas Eisele) approved a consent decree between the parties. Thomas …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Bd. of Managers of the Arkansas Training School for Boys v. George

Docket No. Not Available | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: 1967

Closed Date: Oct. 9, 1967

Sometime before May 23, 1967, an African-American juvenile and his mother filed a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 in the U.S. District Court for Arkansas against the Board of Managers for the Arkansas Training Schools for Boys and the juvenile court judges who assigned or sentenced juveniles to the training schools. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, sought injunctive relief, alleging that the maintenance of segregated juvenile …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Baldridge v. Clinton

4:83-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 1983

Closed Date: 1991

On November 22, 1983, a lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the Governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS), and its Division of Mental Health Services (MHS), Mental Health Board, Division of Developmental Disability Services (DDS), and Developmental Disability Service Board. On September 24,1984, the court certified the class, which it defined as all institutionalized persons in the custody of DHS now and…