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JAIL CONDITIONS
Jones v. City and County of San Francisco

3:91-cv-03453 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 1991

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2000

The plaintiffs originally filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on October 2, 1991. The plaintiff class, consisting of certain pre-trial detainees housed at San Francisco Jail Number 3 (Jail No. 3) in San Bruno, California, brought suit challenging the constitutionality of the conditions of their confinement. The original action, entitled William Besk v. City and County of San Francisco, lead to a Stipulation of Dismissal ("B…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Hamilton v. Schriro

2:69-cv-02443 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 21, 1969

Closed Date: 2013

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails through Louisiana. These cases worked their way through the federal courts for three decades.This case originated in 1969 and pursuant to that action a class was certified consisting of those persons incarcerated in the facilities for Orleans Parish Prison system.On June 25, 1970, following a he…
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…
JAIL CONDITIONS
National Prison Project & Arlington, VA Jail

No Court Case | No Court

Filed Date: Feb. 1, 1999

On February 1, 1999, the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union entered into an agreement with Thomas N. Faust, the Sheriff of Arlington Virginia, concerning allegations of sexual misconduct by eight former inmates against correctional officers at the Arlington County Jail. In consideration for a settlement of the inmates' claims against the officers, the Sheriff agreed to modifications of the jail's policies regarding prevention of sexual misconduct against female inmat…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
United States v. Louisiana

3:98-cv-00947 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 1998

Closed Date: May 2, 2006

This is one of a collection of § 1983 inmate cases filed in Louisiana federal courts to challenge the operation and conditions of confinement in the Louisiana prison system and in parish and city jails throughout Louisiana. These cases have worked their way through the federal courts over the last four decades and are part of this collection, located at PC-LA, JC-LA and JI-LA.This case stems from a report published in October 1995 by the Human Rights Watch. The report, titled "Children in Con…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
In Re: County of Wayne

Docket No. Not Available | Michigan state trial court

Filed Date: June 16, 1995

On November 8, 1993, Wayne County, Michigan, the county operating Wayne County Youth Home, filed a lawsuit against the Wayne County Probate Court in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne pursuant to Michigan state law. The plaintiffs, represented by then Wayne County Corporation Counsel Jennifer Granholm, alleged that the Probate Court's practices created severe overcrowding in the Wayne County Youth Home (later called Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility [JDF]), a juvenile detention fa…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Santiago v. Philadelphia

2:74-02589 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 1974

In October of 1974, juvenile inmates at the Philadelphia Youth Study Center (YSC) filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), 2000d against the City of Philadelphia and local Family Court judges in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by Community Legal Services, Inc. of Philadelphia, and private attorneys, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, and punitive damages for those members of the class that su…
JUVENILE INSTITUTION
Doe v. Henderson

A-7980-I | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: 1979

Juvenile detainees at the Taft Youth Center, the Spencer Youth Center, and the Tennessee Reception and Guidance Center filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Corrections in the Chancery Court for Davidson County, Tennessee, alleging excessive force and physical abuse, excessive discipline, sexual abuse, and failure to protect. The juveniles were represented by the Youth Legal Assistance Project, Legal Services of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, the National Center for Youth Law, a…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Wyatt v. Stickney

2:70-cv-03195 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Oct. 23, 1970

Closed Date: 2003

On October 23, 1970, patients involuntarily confined for mental treatment purposes at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (DMH/MR) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that cond…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Lucas v. White

3:96-cv-02905 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 13, 1996

Closed Date: 2000

On August 13, 1996, three women either currently or previously incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking money damages from individual federal corrections officers. On or around August 13, 1996, the plaintiffs also filed administrative claims against the United States under the Federal Torts Claim Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b) and 2671 et seq. The administrative cla…