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PRISON CONDITIONS
Hope v. Harris

9:18-cv-00027 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 16, 2018

On February 16, 2018, a prisoner housed in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at the Polunsky Unit within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed a pro se lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas challenging the conditions of his confinement. The plaintiff filed suit against the prison’s Senior Warden, Major of Correctional Officers, Deputy Director of Support Operations, and Assistant Director of Classification, as well as three members o…

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JAIL CONDITIONS
Pierce v. County of San Francisco

4:19-cv-07659 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 5, 2022

This case concerns allegations by pretrial detainees of insufficient access to sunlight, fresh air, and recreation time, as well as being subjected to illegal strip searches. On November 21, 2019, the Plaintiff, a pretrial detainee, filed a putative class action complaint on behalf of herself and all other similarly situated inmates in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the County of San Francisco (“County”), as well as named and unnamed officials and employ…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Munday v. Beaufort County

9:20-cv-02144 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: June 5, 2020

This is a lawsuit concerning the allegedly unconstitutional manner in which female inmates were searched at the Beaufort County Detention Center (“BCDC”) in Beaufort, South Carolina. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that between February, 2015 through May, 2020, BCDC had a policy of strip searching all female pre-classification detainees upon entry into the facility, but not similarly-situated male detainees. It was brought by two individual female pre-classification detainees at BCDC who were…

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JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Kennedy v. Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice

1:24-cv-00016 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2024

This is a case about a juvenile facility with allegations of abuse and neglect in Kentucky. Named plaintiffs, two juvenile individuals held at Adair County Youth Detention Center (ACYDC), filed a class action against the ACYDC, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), and various DJJ officials in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. The DJJ officials included its Commissioner, Executive Director of Of…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Garcia v. Ocean County

3:07-cv-05665 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2007

Closed Date: May 16, 2017

On November 28, 2007, five arrestees, proceeding through private counsel, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in order to challenge the blanket strip search policy of the Ocean County Correctional Facility. The named plaintiffs alleged that they were all arrested for misdemeanor or petty crimes and, upon their admission to the jail, were strip searched pursuant to the unconstitutional blanket policy of strip searching every pre…
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…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive relie…

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PRISON CONDITIONS
Diggs v. Mici

4:22-cv-40003 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Jan. 10, 2022

This is a case about prison officials who allegedly inflicted weeks of unprovoked violence on prisoners, particularly prisoners of color. On January 10, 2022, nine Black and Latino men incarcerated at Massachusetts' Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The plaintiffs sued state officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of the Eighth Amendmen…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Amador v. Baca

2:10-cv-01649 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 5, 2010

On March 5, 2010, two female former inmates who were imprisoned in the Century Regional Detention Facility ("CRDF"), a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ("LASD") facility, filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Represented by a civil rights law firm, the plaintiffs sued the LASD under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged violations of their Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as their equivalents under th…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Graff v. County of Salem

1:07-cv-02259 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: May 14, 2007

Closed Date: May 7, 2009

On May 14, 2007, two individuals who had been arrested on minor charges filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, challenging the Salem County Correctional Department's policy and practice of strip searching all detainees regardless of the nature of their charged crime and regardless of the absence of reasonable suspicion to believe the detainees were concealing weapons or contraband. Plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleg…