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PRISON CONDITIONS
Goff v. Nix

4:90-cv-50145 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 16, 1990

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 1997

In 1993, two inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against prison officials seeking an injunction against the prison's prohibition of legal correspondence between inmates in different prison units. Following a bench trial, the District Court (Judge Donald E. O'Brien) granted an injunction on October 19, 1993, finding that restrictions on legal communications burdened inmat…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Patchette v. Nix

4:90-cv-80230 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: April 24, 1990

Closed Date: 1991

On October 11, 1989, prisoners from the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against the Iowa State Penitentiary's Warden and the Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs, represented by court-appointed counsel, alleged that prison overcrowding produced conditions that made incarceration cruel and unusual punishment and that new visitation policies and pract…
PRISON CONDITIONS
CODING IN PROCESS
McBride v. Ray

4:73-00242 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: 1973

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.)According to the ACLU National Prison Project 1995 Status Report on state prisons,"Fort Madison is also under a series of consent decrees involving the delivery of medical-care services, McBride v. Ray, No. 73-242-2 (S.D. Iowa)...These cases are being monitored actively."
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Morrissey v. Brewer

4:69-20468 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 1969

Closed Date: June 29, 1972

This is an older case about whether due process rights are violated when a parole board revokes someone's parole without a hearing. Two petitions for habeas corpus were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa: Booher v. Lee County, filed on March 11, 1970 (docket number 70-20478); and Morrissey v. Brewer, filed on Sept. 12, 1969 (docket number 69-20468).The petitioners, Morrissey and Booher, were individually convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Distr…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States and Cedar Rapids Agreement

Not filed | No Court

Filed Date: Sept. 1, 2015

Closed Date: Sept. 1, 2019

This settlement agreement arose from an investigation of the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa. The federal government conducted a review of Cedar Rapids’ compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. That investigation resulted in a settlement, which was finalized on September 1, 2015. Because the settlement is the only public …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Pargo v. Elliott

4:92-cv-20781 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 19, 1992

Closed Date: Oct. 7, 1996

On November 19, 1992, women incarcerated at Iowa Correctional Institute for Women (“ICIW”) filed this class-action lawsuit in the Southern District of Iowa. Represented by Legal Services of Iowa, the plaintiffs (suing on behalf of a class of all women at ICIW) sued Iowa Department of Corrections officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the defendants violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause by maintaining policies, programs, and facilities that were not “substantially equ…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Knecht v. Gillman

4:72-00063 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: March 9, 1972

Sometime in 1972, two mental institution inmates at Iowa Security Medical Facility (ISMF) filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against state officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the Hawkeye Legal Aid Society, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants' actions constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Specifically, the plaintiff contended that the…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hendrickson v. Griggs

3:84-03012 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 1984

Closed Date: May 23, 1991

In approximately 1984, a class of juveniles incarcerated at the Webster County Jail in Fort Dodge, Iowa, filed a lawsuit against county and state officials, on behalf of all juveniles who were or would be placed in the Jail by a juvenile court. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, brought the suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Juvenile Justice Act, 42 U.S.C. §5601 and filed it in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. The plaintiffs alleged that, in violation o…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Scurr

4:80-00214 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 15, 1980

Closed Date: March 13, 1981

In 1980, Native American prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against the Iowa Division of Adult Corrections and the Warden, Director of Security, and corrections officers at the Penitentiary. The plaintiffs, who were represented by the Native American Rights Fund, alleged violations of their First, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Specifically, the plaintiffs sought injunctive relief to en…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hunt v. Polk County, Iowa

4:80-00382 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Sept. 15, 1980

Closed Date: Nov. 12, 1982

In 1980, Plaintiff, represented by private counsel, filed a lawsuit against Polk County. Plaintiff alleged that employees of the Polk County Jail violated his constitutional rights when they strip-searched him following his arrest on March 18, 1980. Plaintiff alleged that the practice of strip and body cavity searches of temporary pre-arraignment detainees charged with minor offenses was unconstitutional when officials do not suspect contraband.The parties filed a joint stipulation of facts o…