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JAIL CONDITIONS
Inmates of Milwaukee County Jail v. Petersen

2:70-00545 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 1970

Closed Date: Jan. 17, 1973

Pretrial detainees of the Milwaukee County Jail filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin under 42 U.S.C. §1983. Specifically, they alleged that inadequacies in relation to medical care, recreational facilities, sanitation, and access to counsel violated their constitutional rights. The inmates were represented by the Corrections Legal Services Program, Freedom Through Equality, Inc., the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union, and the NAACP Legal Defense and E…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jackson v. Artison

2:88-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 1988

Closed Date: April 24, 1996

In 1988, plaintiffs filed a class action suit in the district court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on behalf of all present and future inmates at the Milwaukee County Jail. The court (Judge Thomas Curran) certified the class and consolidated several cases with similar issues, including Williams-El (JC-WI-003). In 1990, the court entered a consent decree to address overcrowding in the jail. Jackson v. Artison, 1990 WL 367622 (E.D. Wis. 1990). According to the docket from PACER, the co…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Jordan v. Wokle

2:77-00081 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 17, 1977

In 1977, plaintiffs filed a section 1983 suit and requested injunctive relief to expand their visitation opportunities, to prevent overcrowding, to improve medical conditions, and to expand recreational opportunities at the Milwaukee County jail. After two years of litigation, the district court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Judge Myron L. Gordon) ordered a permanent injunction against the defendants, requiring them to expand visitation opportunities and to decrease the jail's populat…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Brian v. Clinicare Corp.

3:79-00188 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 1, 1979

On May 1, 1979, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, on behalf of all juveniles who had or may be placed at Eau Claire Academy, against the Academy, its parent company, Clinicare Corporation, and the company's directors, officers, psychiatric and medical staff. The plaintiffs, represented by the Youth Policy and Law Center, Inc., sought certification of the class. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss for failure to sta…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Julie v. Black

3:81-00455 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: July 16, 1981

In 1981, six juveniles held in the La Crosse County Jail, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the County of La Crosse in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging deficiencies in the operation of the jail that were violative of their constitutional rights. On March 29, 1982, the District Court (Judge Bar…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Mary & Crystal v. Ramsden

3:77-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: May 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1980

On May 27, 1977, Mary, a resident of the Goodland State Camp (a Wisconsin juvenile correctional institution), brought a class action lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § § 1983 and 1988 against the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, the Administrator of the Division of Corrections, and the Superintendent of Goodland State Camp. She was joined in her lawsuit by Crystal, another resident, in October, 1977. The plaintiffs, filing in The United States District Court for…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
U.S. v. Wisconsin

3:97-cv-00231 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: April 4, 1997

Closed Date: Feb. 13, 2006

In 1993, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) notified the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. §1997, that it was commencing an investigation into conditions at the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled ("SWC"), in Union Grove, and the Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled ("CWC"), in Madison, Wisconsin.Following investigative tours of both facilities by the DO…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones'el v. Berge

3:00-cv-00421 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2008

On September 25, 2000, prisoners confined at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin, and the Waupun Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against those prisons. The plaintiffs, represented by court appointed counsel and the University of Wisconsin School of Law, asked the court for declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that their va…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Gonzalez v. Litscher

3:01-cv-00521 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2001

Closed Date: Oct. 21, 2003

On September 13, 2001, a Native American prisoner at the Supermax Correctional Institution in Boscobel, Wisconsin filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants had violated his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion in three ways: 1) by removing a religious book from his cell, 2) by accommodating the religious needs of other prisoner…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Bembenek v. Bablitch

2:86-cv-00262 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: March 10, 1986

Closed Date: 1997

On March 10, 1986, prisoners at the Wisconsin State Women's Prison filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs alleged that their constitutional rights had been violated by overcrowding at the prison.The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Judge John Reynolds) entered a consent decree in the case, which provided for a population cap at the prison. …