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JAIL CONDITIONS
Tate v. Kassulke

3:75-cv-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 1975

Closed Date: 2000

On January 30, 1975, the plaintiffs, inmates of the Jefferson County Jail (Jail), brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive relief with respect to alleged violations of their constitutional rights. The alleged constitutional violations included the lack of sanitary conditions, access to showers, access to recreation, vermin infested conditions, lack of medical attention, cruel beatings, unconstitutional reading of mai…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Baker v. Hamilton

72-cv-07148 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 1972

Closed Date: April 25, 1972

Edward and Darlene Baker filed a class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on behalf of their seventeen-year-old son Glenn, who was placed in the Jefferson County Jail by the Juvenile Court, and on behalf of other youths incarcerated there. They alleged that placement of juveniles in the county jail constituted a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment because it treated the juveniles as adults for punitive purposes without allowi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Fluhr v. Roberts

3:77-00332 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 20, 1977

A prisoner at the Jefferson County Jail in Kentucky filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that the county had unconstitutionally failed to provide access to legal research materials. The defendants agreed to make some legal library resources available at the jail, and the court (Judge Thomas Ballantine) found that to be sufficient, holding that since the average stay at the jail was only a week, the jail was not require…
JAIL CONDITIONS
DOJ CRIPA Investigation of Daviess County (KY)

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On March 24, 1997, the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation on the Daviess County Detention Center in Owensboro, Kentucky (Center), pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997 et seq. The DOJ sent notice to Judge-Executive Buzz Norris of the Daviess County Fiscal Court at that time. An additional notice letter dated June 19, 1997, expanded the investigation to cover not only the main jail, but three other related facilities--the E. Rober…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Price v. Jefferson County

3:91-cv-00144 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 7, 1991

Closed Date: 2001

Inmates at the Jefferson County Corrections Department, represented by private attorneys, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on March 7, 1991, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, alleging that they were strip-searched by county corrections officials in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs alleged that the Department of Corrections maintained an unconstitutional blanket policy to strip-search all arrestees regardless of …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Younger

2:91-cv-00187 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 1991

Closed Date: 1999

On November 21, 1991, juveniles confined in the Kenton County Detention Center filed a class action lawsuit against Kenton County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Juvenile Justice Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5601 et seq., and applicable Kentucky constitutional provisions and statutes. Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and were represented by the Children's Law Center, Inc., Youth Law Center, and Norther…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Horn v. Oldham Co.

3:83-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: March 2, 1983

On March 2, 1983, Greg Horn, a 14 year-old minor in custody at the Oldham County Jail ("OCJ") and his mother filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against Oldham County, Kentucky and the administrators of the OCJ. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys and the Youth Law Center of San Francisco, California, alleged poor sanitary conditions of confinement, failure to…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
U.S. v. Kentucky

3:95-cv-00757 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Nov. 13, 1995

Closed Date: 2001

On November 13, 1995, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky pursuant in the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997 et seq., and the provisions of the Crime Bill, 42 U.S.C. 14141, concerning the administration of juvenile justice. The DOJ alleged that the conditions at juvenile institutions in Kentucky did not meet constitutional standa…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kentucky ARC v. Conn.

3:78-00157 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 16, 1977

Closed Date: 1983

On May 16, 1977 the Kentucky Association for Retarded Citizens and residents of Outwood, a residential treatment facility in rural Kentucky for persons with intellectual disabilities, filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky against the Secretary of the Kentucky Department for Human Resources, state officials, and others. Outwood was operated by defendant Excepticon, Inc., a private corporation under contract with the Department for …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Canterino & U.S. v. Wilson

3:80-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 1980

On October 31, 1980, Pat Canterino, an inmate of the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women, filed class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, seeking injunctive relief against officials of the Kentucky Department of Corrections responsible for operations of the prison. Plaintiffs complained about unequal treatment and access by female inmates and about prison conditions. On March 10, 1982, the U.S. Justice Department wa…