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JAIL CONDITIONS
Goldsby v. Carnes

4:72-cv-20122 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1972

This case involves a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail.On January 3, 1973, the District Court John W. Oliver, Jr. issued a memorandum opinion and order, approving the Consent Decree entered into by the parties. Goldsby v. Carnes, 365 F.Supp. 395 (W.D.Mo. 1973). In his opinion, Judge Oliver chronicled the increase of prisoner litigation and the challenges…
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Johnson v. Lark

4:71-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 1971

Incarcerated people at the St. Louis City Jail in Missouri filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the city in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society, alleged that their civil rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail, including overcrowding, sanitation and living conditions, discipline and procedures for solitary confinement, rules for mail and visitation, inadequate me…
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R.W.T. v. Dalton

4:78-00930 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 1978

A class of juveniles represented by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri filed a lawsuit in 1978 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, against state judges, state juvenile officers, and county sheriffs, alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement in the St. Charles, Pike, and Lincoln County jails and denial of their constitutional rights when they were confined without probable cause hearings. The issue of conditions of confinement was se…
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Tyler v. Percich

4:74-cv-00040 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: Jan. 18, 1974

Closed Date: 2000

On January 18, 1974, incarcerated people of the St. Louis City Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the City of St. Louis, its Department of Public Safety, and the St. Louis Sheriff. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, sought injunctive relief, alleging that overcrowding at the St. Louis City Jail produced conditions which vi…
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L.Z. v. Parrish

6:77-cv-03277 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: June 28, 1977

Closed Date: 1984

A complaint was filed against various state and county judges and officials in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri challenging the incarceration of a juvenile in the Laclede County Jail in Lebanon, Missouri. Evidence established that a new juvenile detention facility had been built, that juveniles were no longer kept in Laclede County Jail, and that the Missouri Supreme Court had amended the challenged rules regarding juvenile detention and detention hearings.…
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Ahrens v. Thomas

5:74-cv-00034 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 10, 1974

In 1974, pre-trial detainees in the Platte County Jail filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, against the county sheriff and judges, challenging conditions of confinement in the Jail. The building was over 100 years old; it had exposed, un-insulated wiring; there was only one exposed shower available; clean bedding and towels were almost never provided; neither clothing nor hygiene products were provided to …
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Hutchings v. Corum

4:79-cv-00600 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: July 3, 1979

In 1979, individuals confined at the Clay County Jail (CCJ) in Missouri filed a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, challenging various conditions of confinement. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory and injunctive relief.On March 3, 1980, the District Court (Judge Elmo B. Hunter, Jr.) certified the matter as a class action and created two sub-classes consisting of (1) pre-trial detaine…
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Heitman v. Gabriel

5:79-cv-06056 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Filed Date: Sept. 10, 1979

Inmates at the Buchanan County Jail in St. Joseph, Missouri, filed a pro se class-action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against representatives of the county in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging that their 8th Amendment rights and due process rights had been violated by inadequacies at the jail in the areas of overcrowding, physical environment, religious exercise, medical care, recreational facilities, reading materials, legal materials, sanitation, fire sa…
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Patterson v. Rafferty

1:82-00031 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 5, 1982

Inmates at the Mississippi County Jail in Missouri filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against representatives of the county. The parties entered into a consent decree, and the plaintiffs asked the court to award them attorneys' fees. On October 24, 1985, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (Judge Harris K Wangelin) held that the plaintiffs were entitled to an award of attorneys' fees even though a consent decree had been en…
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Johnson v. O'Brien and Bullington v. Moreland

4:76-00210 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Filed Date: March 9, 1976

On May 30, 1979, Robert Burlington, a pre-trial detainee at St. Louis County Jail in Clayton, Missouri, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against St. Louis County officials regarding conditions at the jail. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of all pre-trial detainees at the St. Louis County Jail. Burlington filed the lawsuit pro se. In 1980, this case was consolidated with a previous lawsuit filed in 1976. That lawsuit, Johnson v. O'Brien…