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JAIL CONDITIONS
ACLU of New Mexico v. Board of County Commissioners of Valencia County

1:97-cv-01318 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1997

Closed Date: 2000

On October 7, 1997, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and inmates in the Valencia County Jail in Los Lunas, New Mexico filed a class action lawsuit against the Board of County Commissioners, Valencia, New Mexico in the District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief due to conditions in violation of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, 42 U.S.C. Sections 1983 and 1988, and the Americans with Disa…
JAIL CONDITIONS
McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

6:95-cv-00024 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 1995

On January 10, 1995, detainees at the Bernalillo County Detention Center (BCDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico filed this class-action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the BCDC under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d), alleging that gross overcrowding and racial discrimination at the jail violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thir…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Johnnie K. v. Curry Co.

1:81-cv-00914 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 4, 1981

On November 4, 1981, juveniles confined in the Curry County Jail in New Mexico filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1988, and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, 42 U.S.C. § 5601 et seq., in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against Curry County, county commissioners, the sheriff, District Court Judges, and Children's Court Judges. The class consists of all juveniles who were incarcerated as of November 4, 1981 and who would be confined in …
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Johnnie K. v. Crist

1:82-cv-00182 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 1982

On February 18, 1982, a class action lawsuit was filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico on behalf juveniles confined in the New Mexico Boys' School (N.M.B.S.) in Springer, New Mexico, against the New Mexico Department of Corrections, the Director of its Juvenile Facilities Division, and the Superintendent of N.M.B.S. The plaintiffs, represented by both the Youth Law Center and private counsel, sought declaratory and injun…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. New Mexico

86-cv-00932 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Aug. 8, 1986

In August 1986, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, against the State of New Mexico. The Complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the State had failed to protect the constitutional rights of residents of Fort Stanton Hospital and Training School in Fort Stanton, New Mexico, a state-run facility for developmentally …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. New Mexico

1:89-cv-01165 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1989

Closed Date: 1997

On January 21, 1987, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), notified the State of New Mexico, of its intent to investigate, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, allegations of unconstitutional conditions at the Los Lunas Hospital and Training School, Los Lunas, New Mexico. Following its investigation, the DOJ issued its findings letter on September 12, 1988. The findings letter detailed the unconstitutional conditi…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Jackson v. Fort Stanton Hospital & Training School

1:87-cv-00839 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: July 8, 1987

On July 8, 1987, the Supporters of Developmentally Disabled New Mexicans, Inc. and twenty-one persons with developmental disabilities filed this class action in District Court for the District of New Mexico. The plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, challenging the institutionalization of developmentally disabled persons at two state-owned and operated institutions: 1) Fort Stanton Hospital and Training School (Fort Stanton) and 2) Los Lunas Hospital …
PRISON CONDITIONS
Duran v. Martinez

1:77-cv-00721 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 15, 1977

On 11/15/1977, prisoners of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, represented by the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Governor of New Mexico and officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. In the first amended complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that "the totality of the overcrowding and other conditions at PNM fall beneath standards of human decency, inflict needless suffering on p…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Frease v. Griffin

6:79-00693 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 1979

In September 1979, American Indian prisoners of the New Mexico Penitentiary filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against the Warden and other state officials. Plaintiffs claimed that defendants violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments when they refused to allow plaintiffs to worship through the use of a traditional Indian sweat lodge and to wear their hair in the manner that their native religious belief requires. Plaintiffs were represented by lawyers from…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ayers v. Perry

1:02-cv-01438 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2002

Closed Date: 2003

In October 2002, prisoners confined at the Special Controls Facilities within the New Mexico State penal system filed a Section 1983 class action suit in the District of New Mexico against officials of the New Mexico Department of Corrections. Represented by the ACLU National Prison Project and other counsel, plaintiffs alleged that defendants did not provide adequate mental health care, used excessive force, and discouraged the filing of grievances. Plaintiffs also alleged that defendants' act…