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JAIL CONDITIONS
O'Bryan v. Saginaw County

1:75-cv-10075 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 1, 1975

Closed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

In 1975, the plaintiffs filed this class action suit against the Saginaw County Jail on behalf of themselves and all inmates, seeking permanent injunctive and declaratory relief. The plaintiffs challenged a variety of jail conditions, including disciplinary practices, visitation policies, availability of exercise, access to legal material, censorship of communication, and separation of adults from juveniles. After a trial on the merits in 1977, the District Court for the Eastern District of Mic…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Johnson v. Heffron

1:79-cv-00045 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 1979

Closed Date: Sept. 19, 1996

In 1979, the plaintiffs, pretrial detainees, filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against the Kent County Sheriff and the Kent County Correctional Facility (KCCF). The plaintiffs, represented by Legal Aid of Western Michigan and private counsel, alleged that the jail conditions violated their constitutional rights under the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In the midst of this litigation, the District Court identified a ''woeful …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In Re: County of Wayne

Docket No. Not Available | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: June 16, 1995

On November 8, 1993, Wayne County, Michigan, the county operating Wayne County Youth Home, filed a lawsuit against the Wayne County Probate Court in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne pursuant to Michigan state law. The plaintiffs, represented by then Wayne County Corporation Counsel Jennifer Granholm, alleged that the Probate Court's practices created severe overcrowding in the Wayne County Youth Home (later called Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility [JDF]), a juvenile detention fa…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Kope v. Watkins

88-61424 | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: April 27, 1988

On April 27, 1988, persons with intellectual disabilities residing at Greenbrook Manor in Monroe, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Total Living Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Mt. Pleasant Total Living Center in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, the Taylor Total Living Center in Taylor, Michigan, and the Wayne Total Living Center in Wayne, Michigan, filed a class action lawsuit under the Michigan State Constitution and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Mental Health (MDMH) in the Michig…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Michigan ARC v. Smith

2:78-cv-70384 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Feb. 21, 1978

On February 21, 1978, the Michigan Association for Retarded Citizens (MARC) and the Plymouth Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Mental Health in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services for Developmentally Disabled Citizens, asked the district court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defe…
NURSING HOME CONDITIONS
People v. Villa Elizabeth - Butterworth

No. 98-04541-FH | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: 1998

Closed Date: Jan. 19, 1999

In 1998, the Michigan Attorney General's Office launched an investigation into conditions at the Villa Elizabeth Nursing Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Office filed criminal charges against the facility for neglect of a resident under the state's Vulnerable Adult Act, MCL 750.145m; MSA28.342A (m), in the Kent County Circuit Court. Villa-Elizabeth had been charged criminally by the Attorney General's Office on February 18, 1998 with with one count of felony vulnerable adult abuse as a resu…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Glover v. Johnson

2:77-cv-71229 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: May 19, 1977

Closed Date: 2002

On May 19, 1977, five named and several unnamed female prisoners at the Detroit House of Corrections filed this class action against the Michigan Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Urban Law, Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services, and Michigan Legal Services, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated their constitutional rights by failing to…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Hadix v. Johnson

2:80-cv-73581 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: Sept. 18, 1980

Closed Date: Nov. 15, 2000

NOTE: There are two separate cases, in two separate districts, under the caption Hadix. This summary and documents are for the Eastern District of Michigan case, 2:80-cv-73581-JF, filed in 1980. As explained below, in 1992, the Eastern District judge, John Feikens, split that case in two, and sent part of it (the part relating to medical and mental health care, and eventually fire safety) to the Western District, where it received the docket number 4:92-CV-110.  On September 18, 1980, prisoners…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gorton v. Johnson

82-cv-60422 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: 1982

In 1982, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The plaintiffs were individuals who had been convicted and incarcerated under Michigan's "Guilty but Mentally Ill" statute, C.L.A. § 768.36, which provides that a criminal defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill and is committed to the custody of the DOC shall undergo further evaluation and be treated f…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Heit v. VanOchten

1:96-cv-00800 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 1996

On October 4, 1996, prisoners of the state of Michigan filed this class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Michigan Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated by unconstitutional state administrative prisoner disciplinary hearing practice…