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Illinois Jail Conditions Suit Nets $150,000 Attorney Fee Award
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2005, page 32
An Illinois Federal District Court has awarded attorneys representing prisoners at the Winnebago County Jail (WCJ) $150,000 in attorney fees and costs. This class action suit alleged the conditions at WCJ were unconstitutionally deficient in numerous respects.
Filed under:
Totality of Conditions,
Overcrowding,
PLRA,
Attorney Fees (PLRA),
Settlements.
Location:
Illinois.
The suit alleged system-wide problems of overcrowding, double and triple bunking of prisoner's, ...
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