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JAIL CONDITIONS
Shaw v. Allen

1:81-cv-01008 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 1981

Closed Date: April 15, 1997

In 1981, inmates at McDowell County Jail in West Virginia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against McDowell County Commissioners and Sheriff claiming constitutional violations in the jail. Plaintiffs were represented by Appalachian Research and Defense Fund and private attorneys. A comprehensive order was entered on April 11, 1983 enjoining the defendants from operating the jail in a manner that …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Facility Review Panel v. Holden

No. 17240 | West Virginia state appellate court

Filed Date: 1987

Closed Date: April 9, 1987

The Facility Review Panel, on behalf of inmates in the Doddridge County Jail, brought a mandamus action in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the sheriff and members of the County Commission of Doddridge County, to compel the closure of the jail until conditions there improved to minimal constitutional and statutory standards. On April 9, 1987, the court, in a per curium opinion, used a totality of the conditions test to find that conditions at the jail constituted cruel and …
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. County Commn. of Kanawha City

No. 17096 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: July 17, 1986

On July 17, 1986, the petitioner, sheriff of Kanawha County, filed a writ of mandamus in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia seeking to compel the county commission to give him the supplies he needed to come into compliance with a May 7, 1986 settlement agreement. The settlement was the result of an action brought on March 14, 1986, by inmates of the county jail to improve conditions in the jail. Following the settlement agreement, the sheriff submitted a request to the County Commi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Dawson v. Kendrick

1:78-cv-01076 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: June 15, 1978

Closed Date: April 2, 1992

Inmates at the Mercer County Jail in West Virginia filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the West Virginia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The inmates alleged that their rights had been violated by a totality of conditions at the jail. Specifically, the plaintiffs complained about deficiencies in the areas of overcrowding, plumbing, lighting, sanitation, fire safety, classification, disciplinary procedures,…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hickson v. Kellison

Docket No. Not Available | West Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1982

Two prisoners at Pocahontas County Jail filed a lawsuit in West Virginia State Court under 42 U.S.C. §1983 against representatives of the county in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. The prisoners complained of inadequate personal hygiene supplies, clothing, bedding, and towels; a lack of laundry facilities; denial of communicative rights; limited and inadequate visitation opportunities; inadequate medical care and exercise opportunity; and segregated confinement. Because we do no…
JAIL CONDITIONS
State ex rel. Stull v. Davis

24459 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: 1988

Inmates lodged in West Virginia's regional and county jails while awaiting transfers filed a lawsuit under W.Va.Code, 62-13-5 [1977] in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the state's Department of Corrections, alleging that the delays in transfers due to overcrowding was a denial of the rehabilitative programs to which they were entitled. On July 17, 1988, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virgina issued an unsigned per curiam opinion granting relief in mandamus, holding …
JAIL CONDITIONS
State ex rel. Sams v. Kirby

No. 26647 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: 2002

Six prisoners lodged in West Virginia's regional and county jails while awaiting transfer to prisons, including a new one under construction, filed a lawsuit under W. Va. Code § 62-13-1 in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia against the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) on October 4, 2000. The plaintiffs alleged that the delays in transfers from facilities that were not operated by the DOC and were designed for shorter-term stays to longer-term prisons was a denial of the rehabi…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
State ex rel. M.L.N. v. Greiner

17536 | West Virginia state supreme court

Filed Date: Feb. 6, 1987

On February 6, 1987, a juvenile detained at the Wood County Correctional Center (WCCC) in West Virginia petitioned the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia for a writ of mandamus, alleging that the juvenile detention section of the Wood County Correctional Center violated minimum statutory and constitutional standards. By March 3, 1987, two other juveniles were added to the suit as intervenors. The plaintiffs asked the court to order their immediate release from the WCCC. Although one o…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Medley v. Ginsberg

2:78-cv-02099 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: April 21, 1978

Closed Date: 2001

On April 21, 1978, the Executive Director of the, Kanawha Putnam Association for Retarded Children and an individual plaintiff, represented by Mountain State Justice, Inc., filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Charleston) to redress alleged deprivation of the constitutional rights of all children and young adults with intellectual disabilities institutionalized by the State of West Virginia.Plaintiffs alleged depr…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Cooper v. Gwinn

15153 | West Virginia state trial court

Filed Date: 1981

Sometime before 1981, inmates at the West Virginia State Prison for Women filed an original action for mandamus in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia seeking a writ of mandamus compelling prison officials to provide them with meaningful educational and rehabilitative programs and to allow for daily exercise as instructed under West Virginia state law and the substantive due process mandate of the West Virginia Constitution. The inmates, represented by private counsel, specifically a…