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JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Gila County

2:98-cv-02269 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Dec. 28, 1998

Closed Date: 2003

On March 7, 1994, the Mexican Consul, Nicolas Escalante, wrote the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona (Janet Napolitano), complaining of poor conditions in the Gila County jail in Globe Arizona. He had been to the jail at the request of a number of Mexican citizen inmates. The U.S. Attorney's Office referred the matter to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which opened an investigation into two jails in Gila County, one in Globe and the other in Payson Arizona. Pursu…
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Maricopa County

2:97-cv-02273 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 30, 1997

Closed Date: Nov. 18, 1997

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Maricopa County Arizona officials in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on October 31, 1997, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action stems from an investigation authorized under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, as a result of allegations that poor conditions in the Maricopa County Jails (Jails) violated inmates' constitutional rights. The investigation was commenced on August 8, 1995, an…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Allen v. Henderson

Docket No. Not Available | Arizona state trial court

Filed Date: 1984

In approximately 1984, a child incarcerated at a jail of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, filed a lawsuit against the Division of Public Safety of the Navajo Tribe. In a Consent Decree filed in the District Court of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, dated January 28, 1985, the court enjoined the Tribe from incarcerating juveniles under age 18 in jails where adults were housed. The Decree further required the defendants to submit a plan for a juvenile detention facility to t…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Anthony C. v. Pima County

4:82-cv-00501 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 10, 1982

On August 10, 1982, detainees in the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center in Tucson filed this class action lawsuit, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against Pima County. The plaintiffs sued Pima County, the Juvenile Division of the Superior Court of Pima County, the Pima County Court Center, Pima County Detentional Center, and Pima County Board of Supervisors under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § § 2201 and 2202, 20 U…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Johnson v. Upchurch

4:86-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 6, 1986

On April 6, 1986, inmates at Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution (now known as Catalina Mountain School) near Tucson, Arizona, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Education for the Handicapped Act against the former and acting superintendents of Catalina Mountain Juvenile Institution; the acting superintendent of Catalina Mountain; the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections; and the director of Juvenile Services for the Arizona Department of Corrections. The suit was f…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Arnold v. Lewis

2:91-cv-01808 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 1991

On November 14, 1991, a female inmate incarcerated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 against Perryville Prison and ADOC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix Division. The plaintiff and the plaintiff's guardian ad litem, represented by the Arizona Center for Disability Law, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief enjoining the defendants from transferring the plaintiff, al…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation of Arizona State Hospital (ASH)

Not applicable | No Court

On September 25, 1989, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to the Governor of Arizona, informing him of its intention to investigate conditions at Arizona State Hospital (ASH) pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. DOJ subsequently toured ASH in November 1989 and again in January 1990.On December 14, 1990, DOJ sent a findings letter the Governor. In the findings letter, DOJ outlined three primary areas of deficiencies (use of bodily …
PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. State of Arizona

2:97-cv-00476 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: March 10, 1997

Closed Date: Dec. 17, 1999

This case was brought by the United States pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). On February 8, 1995, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, served the Governor of Arizona with a notice letter regarding their intent to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and violations of privacy rights of female inmates in the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC). The Department of Justice sent its finding to Arizona governor J. Fife Symington on August 8, …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Black v. Ricketts

2:84-cv-00111 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 1984

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 1988

In 1984, prisoners of Cellblock 6 who were confined to administrative segregation of the Arizona State Prison filed suit under 42 USC 1983 against the prison and its employees. The plaintiffs were represented by the ACLU National Prison Project and private counsel. There is no docket available for the case, and it is unclear when the original complaint was filed. The first amended complaint, filed March 8, 1984, focused on administrative segregation procedures and conditions. Plaintiffs alleged…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Casey v. Lewis

2:90-cv-00054 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 1990

Closed Date: May 22, 2000

This is a Section 1983 case brought in federal district court for the District of Arizona (Judge Roger Strand) by prisoners. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the ACLU, filed the class action complaint on January 12, 1990. The complaint named as plaintiffs all current and future adults, male and female, in the custody of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The defendants were officials of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The primary allegations of the co…