Medical and Mental Health Care
Jensen v. Thornell
UPDATE: In a thorough and sweeping injunction issued on April 7, 2023, U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver is requiring the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (“ADCRR”) to make “substantial” changes to staffing and conditions so that medical care and mental healthcare at Arizona prisons comes up to constitutional standards.
Status: Closed (Judgment)
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Mississippi
Mar 2017
Dockery v. Hall
The ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, filed a petition for class certification and expert reports for a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF). The lawsuit, which was filed in May 2013, describes the for-profit prison as hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous. EMCF is operated "in a perpetual state of crisis" where prisoners are at "grave risk of death and loss of limbs." The facility, located in Meridian, Mississippi, is supposed to provide intensive treatment to the state's prisoners with serious psychiatric disabilities, many of whom are locked down in long-term solitary confinement.
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9 Medical and Mental Health Care Cases
Southern California
Sep 2022
Rutherford v. Luna
Conditions at the LA County Jail system have been the subject of court oversight since 1978.
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Southern California
Medical and Mental Health Care
Rutherford v. Luna
Conditions at the LA County Jail system have been the subject of court oversight since 1978.
Sep 2022
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Apr 2020
Zelaya V. Archambeault
On April 3, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, and the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project filed Zelaya et al v. Archambeault et al in the Southern District of California on behalf of immigrants detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and Imperial Regional Detention Facility in California.
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Medical and Mental Health Care
Zelaya V. Archambeault
On April 3, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties, and the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project filed Zelaya et al v. Archambeault et al in the Southern District of California on behalf of immigrants detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and Imperial Regional Detention Facility in California.
Apr 2020
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Apr 2020
Albino-Martinez V. Adducci
On April 7, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and ACLU of Michigan filed Albino-Martinez et al v. Adducci et al in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of immigrants detained at the Monroe County Jail and the St. Clair County Jail in Michigan.
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Medical and Mental Health Care
Albino-Martinez V. Adducci
On April 7, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and ACLU of Michigan filed Albino-Martinez et al v. Adducci et al in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of immigrants detained at the Monroe County Jail and the St. Clair County Jail in Michigan.
Apr 2020
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Apr 2020
Malam v. Adducci
On April 5, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and ACLU of Michigan filed Malam v. Adducci et al in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of immigrants detained at the Calhoun County Correctional Center.
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Medical and Mental Health Care
Malam v. Adducci
On April 5, 2020, the ACLU National Prison Project, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and ACLU of Michigan filed Malam v. Adducci et al in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of immigrants detained at the Calhoun County Correctional Center.
Apr 2020
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Dec 2018
Lawrence Carty, et al. v. Kenneth Mapp, et al.
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Medical and Mental Health Care
Lawrence Carty, et al. v. Kenneth Mapp, et al.
Dec 2018
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