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JAIL CONDITIONS
Osborn v. Manson

3:72-cv-15755 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: 1972

Five pretrial inmates of the New Haven Correctional Center in Connecticut filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Connecticut Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by the length of their confinement and by conditions of their confinement in administrative segregation cells which had no running water and only covered buckets which were infrequently emptied, and by…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Emily J. v. Weicker

3:93-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 1993

Closed Date: 2007

On September 27, 1993, juveniles detained at juvenile detention centers in Connecticut filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs filed under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 5633, 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and 29 U.S.C. § 794, against the state of Connecticut, in addition to various court administrators, detention centers and agencies. The class was composed of all present and future juveniles in the care, custo…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Conn. ARC v. Thorne

2:78-cv-00653 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

In December 1978, the Connecticut Association of Retarded Citizens and twelve individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. They sued the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation (DMR), the Department of Income Maintenance (DIM) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The class action lawsuit challenged the quality of care, living conditions, and residential placement of individuals with intellectual d…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Conn. Traumatic Brain Injury Assoc. v. Hogan

2:90-cv-00097 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 8, 1990

Closed Date: 2002

On February 8, 1990, the Connecticut Traumatic Brain Injury Association filed a class action lawsuit against the Connecticut Departments of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and various state hospitals in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Plaintiffs were a class of persons with intellectual disabilities or traumatic brain injuries and who were or may be placed in Norwich or Fairfield Hills Hospitals. They were represented by Connecticut Legal Services, the Con…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Messier v. Southbury Training School

3:94-cv-01706 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1994

Closed Date: March 13, 2019

On October 4, 1994, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against Connecticut's Departments of Mental Retardation (DMR), Social Services (DSS), and Public Health (DPH) and Southbury Training School, an intermediate care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief on behalf of both current and future Southbury residents.…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Mihalcik v. Lensink

2:89-cv-00529 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 1989

Closed Date: 1993

On August 15, 1989, two patients at the Connecticut Valley Hospital, a state mental institution in Middletown, Connecticut, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all persons with intellectual disabilities who were or would be patients at the Hospital. The plaintiffs, represented by Yale Legal Services, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, was brought against the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs claime…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Connecticut

3:86-cv-00252 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 25, 1986

Closed Date: 2009

On May 1, 1984, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division informed the Governor of Connecticut that it would investigate the living conditions at Southbury Training School, an institutional care facility for people with intellectual disabilities (ICF/MR) in Southbury, Connecticut, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq. On September 11, 1985, the Department of Justice announced its findings. Three lawsuits, including th…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Joslyn v. Armstrong

3:01-cv-00198 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2001

Closed Date: 2001

On February 7, 2001, prisoners at the Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Connecticut Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs were Connecticut citizens, convicted and sentenced to the custody of the Connecticut Department of Corrections by Connecticut state courts. They were placed at Wallens Ridge State Prison (a supermax facility in Virginia) pursuant to an I…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bartkus v. Manson

2:80-cv-00506 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 22, 1980

On August 22, 1980, Richard Bartkus filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against the Connecticut Corrections Department. This case was consolidated and named lead case with five other cases filed against the defendant in 1981 and 1982. The plaintiffs in the other cases were Palmer Gaines, Joseph L. Letezeio, Jr., and Ernest Bradshaw. The plaintiffs were represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and Legal Assistance to Prisoners. Othe…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. Meachum

2:88-cv-00562 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Aug. 15, 1988

[For unknown reasons, the docket does not begin with the complaint, but instead begins with a 1988 order and skips ahead nearly three years to a motion filed in 1991.] On August 15, 1988, prisoners brought this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. They sought to challenge the policies and practices of the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) pertaining to the care, custody and confidentiality issues of prisoners with AIDS…