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Class Certified in Challenge to Mailed Book Ban at Indianapolis Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted class certification to a complaint filed against the Marion County Sheriff, alleging that there is a de facto …
Disabled Prisoner Who Won $1.85 Million After Fall in Chicago Jail Secures Class Certification for Separate ADA Challenge to Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman  On September 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted class certification to a complaint filed by disabled …
Suit by Mentally Disabled Detainees at South Carolina Jail Secures Class Certification; No Action on Damning DOJ Report by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In January 2025, at the conclusion of a year-­long investigation into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (ASGDC) in South Carolina’s Richland County, the federal Department …
DOJ Leaves Louisiana Over-Detention Suit on Life Support, Two Others Granted Class-Action Status by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A prison case filed in Louisiana by the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has languished since new leadership was appointed in January 2025 by Pres. Donald J. Trump (R). Filed by the …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
$4 Million Settlement Reached in Class Action Challenge to Conditions at Shuttered St. Louis “Workhouse” Jail by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman It sounded like a jail from a 19th century novel: “infestations of insects, spiders and rodents”; “extreme and dangerous heat and humidity” in warm weather; exposure to “extreme …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
California Prisoners Sue Gynecologist for Sexual Abuse by Casey Bastian On February 2, 2025, a class-action complaint was filed by women housed at the California Institute for Women (CIW). The suit alleges that Dr. Scott Lee abused dozens of prisoners for at least seven years while he acted as the …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Seventh Circuit Reverses Denial of Class Certification in Suit Over Inadequate Dental Care at Chicago Jail by In 2018, former pretrial detainee Quintin Scott joined a lawsuit alleging unconstitutional dental care at the Cook County Jail in Chicago because it failed to employ an oral surgeon. For over a decade …
Eighth Circuit: Evidentiary Admissibility Is a “Red Herring” At Class Certification of St. Louis Jail Conditions Challenge by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declined to join most sister circuits, which admit evidentiary challenges to class certification …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Nearly $75 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached For Delayed Releases from N.Y.C. Jails by On July 12, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of New York granted final approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging detainees in New York City jails were forced to wait three hours …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Class Certified in Suit Alleging Overuse of Solitary Confinement in New York Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 11, 2023, class-action status was granted to a suit filed the previous April against the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), accusing the prison agency of …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Deadline Looms for Payouts Under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program by December 31, 2023, will be the last day to file for reparations under California’s Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program (FISCP). State lawmakers created it in 2021 to offer compensation to thousands of victims who were sterilized …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Seventh Circuit Overturns Class Decertification in Cook County Jail Disability Lawsuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on November 14, 2022, reversed the decertification of a class in a lawsuit alleging that Division 10 of the Cook County Jail does …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
Class Certified in ‘Orange Crush’ Shakedown Lawsuit by Illinois Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit certified a class of Illinois prisoners in a suit accusing officials in the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of conducting …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Class of Juvenile Prisoners Certified in Suit Against Florida DOC by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss O n October 22, 2021, federal Judge Robert Hinkle of the Northern District of Florida certified a class of plaintiffs in a suit accusing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) of housing juveniles and …
Washington Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Release of Transgender Prisoners’ Personal Information; Class Certified by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On April 8, 2021, the Federal court for the Eastern District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) to preserve the status quo and halt the release by …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Court Grants Class Certification for Illinois Prisoners in Restrictive Housing Lawsuit by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On June 14, 2021, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois granted Plaintiffs’ motion for class certification while granting in part and denying in part Defendant’s motion to Supplement. The …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Oregon Federal Court Issues Class Certification in HRDC Challenge to NUMI Release Debit Cards by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Oregon federal district court issued an order that certified a class in a lawsuit challenging the issuance of debit cards by NUMI upon release in lieu of the …
Davis v. Baldwin, IL, Order Granting Class Certification, Solitary Confinement, 2021 Case 3:16-cv-00600-MAB Document 230 Filed 06/14/21 Page 1 of 59 Page ID #4850 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS HENRY DAVIS, et al., ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, …
Federal Judge in Georgia Grants Class Action Status to Prisoners’ Suit Against Global Tel*Link by Monday, November 30, 2020, was a big day for a group of Georgia prisoners suing their phone service provider, Global Tel*Link (GTL), over the company’s allegedly hidden policy of confiscating any unused funds in their …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Court Rejects Class Status for Nebraska Prisoners Facing Substandard Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Nebraska Federal district court denied class certification in a lawsuit alleging systematic deficiencies in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NCDS) health-care system. Individual claims of some of the lead incarcerated …
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