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PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. State of Louisiana

3:24-cv-01041 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2024

On December 20, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ/the Department) brought this case against the state of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections in the Middle District of Louisiana. The DOJ alleged the Louisiana incarcerated thousands of people each year past their sentences resulting in a system of over detention. The Department filed this case pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1997-1997j (CRIPA), and requested injunc…

Administrative Stay Granted

JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Cumberland County

1:23-cv-02655 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 17, 2023

This was a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), who alleged that the Cumberland County jail failed to provide constitutionally adequate mental healthcare to prisoners who were at risk of suicide or self-harm. The DOJ Civil Rights Division filed a complaint and proposed consent decree under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) on May 17, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Cumberland County and the Cumberland Cou…
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Jones v. Gusman

2:12-cv-00859 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 2, 2012

On April 2, 2012, ten prisoners at the Orleans Parish Prison -- the New Orleans Jail (NOJ) -- brought this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Orleans Parish Sheriff, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, asked for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that they suffered from abusive and unconstitutional treatment while confined at the NOJ. The case was assigned to Judge Lance…

Injunction Granted

Pending in Supreme Court

PRISON CONDITIONS
United States v. Alabama

2:20-cv-01971 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This case involved alleged unconstitutional conditions in Alabama’s men’s prisons. On December 9, 2020, the DOJ filed this lawsuit in  the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against the Alabama Department of Corrections under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)(42 U.S.C. §1997). The DOJ alleged that the conditions of the prisons violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, following an investigation that found poor conditions and deliberate indiffer…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Hinds County

3:16-cv-00489 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: June 23, 2016

On May 21, 2015, the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) completed an investigation into Hinds County, Mississippi, over conditions at the Hinds County Adult Detention Facility and Work Center in Raymond (RDC) and the Jackson Detention Center in Jackson. The DOJ found that the facilities were chronically understaffed, that staff were not adequately trained or supervised, and that the facilities were poorly designed and ill-maintained. Facility staff in turn fa…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ Investigation of Georgia Prisons

N/A | No Court

This is a case about conditions in Georgia's prisons. On August 5, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was opening a statewide civil investigation into conditions of confinement of people incarcerated in Georgia’s prisons. DOJ initiated the investigation under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), which authorizes DOJ to review conditions and practices within prisons and jails run by state or local governments. DOJ initiated the investigation to assess whethe…
JAIL CONDITIONS
United States v. Fulton County

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2025

On January 3, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Plaintiff brought this suit for declaratory and injunctive relief against Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff's Office – responsible for operating the Fulton County Jail – under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997 (CRIPA), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134 (ADA…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Nunez and United States v. City of New York

1:11-cv-05845 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2011

On August 18, 2011, a class of incarcerated people filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York under 42 U.S.C. 1983 for cruel and unusual punishment against the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC). The plaintiffs, represented by the Legal Aid Society and Emery Celli, asked the court for declaratory relief, injunctive relief, and damages, claiming that DOC officers routinely inflicted wanton physical violence on prisoners and deliberately falsifi…
JAIL CONDITIONS
DOJ Investigation of the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (Columbia, South Carolina)

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(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) On November 2, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice began an investigation into the conditions at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, a jail in Columbia, South Carolina, under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. On January 15, 2025, the DOJ released its findings, concluding that conditions at the jail violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment due to the severe violence occurring between people incarcerated there.
JAIL CONDITIONS
U.S. v. Columbus Consolidated City/County Government (Muscogee County)

4:99-cv-00132 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Sept. 23, 1999

Closed Date: July 8, 2019

In 1994, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice notified Muscogee County, Georgia that it intended to investigate conditions in the county jail. In 1995, following the investigation, the DOJ notified the Chairman of the Muscogee County Commission of its findings and made recommendations regarding staffing and supervision, grievance system, exercise, access to reading materials, medical and mental healthcare, dental care, suicide prevention, general sanitation, fire safety, …