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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Smith v. Edwards

3:22-cv-00573 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2022

Louisiana officials announced that they would incarcerate about two dozen children in the former death row of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly referred to as Angola) after Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick signed off on the transfer. On August 19, 2022, plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, filed suit against Governor John Bel Edwards, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Juvenile Justice William Sommers, and Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections James M. …
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…
CHILD WELFARE
Wyatt B. v. Brown

6:19-cv-00556 | U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

Filed Date: April 16, 2019

On April 16, 2019, ten children in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) filed this class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The plaintiffs sued the Governor of Oregon, the Director of the Oregon Department of Child Welfare, and ODHS, along with its director, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131(2)), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 794), the Adoption Assistance Pro…
JAIL CONDITIONS
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…

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JAIL CONDITIONS
Murray v. Santa Barbara

2:17-cv-08805 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2017

On December 6, 2017, several prisoners of the Santa Barbara County Jail (SBCJ) in pre-trial detention filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Santa Barbara and the Sheriff's Office under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming violations of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29…

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Tellis v. LeBlanc

5:18-cv-00541 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Filed Date: April 19, 2018

On February 20, 2018, several individuals incarcerated in extended lockdown at the David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC), represented by the MacArthur Justice Center and Disability Rights Louisiana (the Protection and Advocacy organization in Louisiana), filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the DWCC, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (LDOC), and individual employees in their official capacity. The plaintiffs brought this action under the Amer…
PRISON CONDITIONS
West v. Manson

2:83-cv-00366 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: May 9, 1983

On May 9, 1983, female inmates, pretrial detainees, and the children of the inmates and pretrial detainees incarcerated at Niantic Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut, brought this class action lawsuit against the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, the Warden of the correctional facility, and the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Youth Services. The plaintiffs, represented by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and Greater Hartford Legal Aid, challenged v…

Case Is Ongoing

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…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
J.J. v. Litscher

3:17-cv-00047 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 23, 2017

On January 23, 2017, four minor children confined to the state juvenile facilities Copper Lake School for Girls and Lincoln Hills School for Boys filed this class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The plaintiffs sued various state officials responsible for the facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by wrongfully and unlawfully imposing solitary confinement, mecha…