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Sorted by: Agenda Area
Filtered by: Juvenile Justice
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Found: 6 cases
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Candy H. v. Redemption Ranch, Inc., et al.
filed 02/10/1982
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
The Center sought a permanent injunction in 1982 to stop operators of the church-run Bethesda Home for Girls from physically and emotionally abusing the "wayward" girls sent to them for care and instruction.
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D.W., et al. v. Harrison County, Miss.
filed 04/20/2009
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
Children held at the Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Mississippi endured squalid conditions and horrific physical and mental abuse that violated their civil rights. Children were forced to endure shackling, physical assaults by staff, confinement to vermin-infested cells and overcrowded, unsanitary conditions that resulted in widespread contraction of scabies and staph infections. The detention center also failed to provide children with adequate medical and mental health care during their confinement.
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J.A., et al. v. Barbour, et al.
filed 07/11/2007
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit on behalf of mentally ill girls living at the Columbia Training School who were shackled, physically and sexually abused, and provided with inadequate mental health treatment.
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K.L.W. v. James
filed 04/13/2004
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
At Columbia Training School, one of Mississippi's abusive juvenile prisons, a policy made it nearly impossible for injured children to speak with attorneys who are willing to help.
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Morgan v. Sproat
filed 02/04/1975
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
Although this constitutional challenge to horrific conditions at a juvenile center was filed by other lawyers in 1975, the Center and the Mississippi Center for Justice took over in 2003 to enforce a judgment that had been ignored for more than 25 years.
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R.C. v. Fuller
filed 11/15/1988
Agenda area: Juvenile Justice
Concerned about inappropriate services and mental health treatment provided to children placed in Alabama foster care, the Center joined with mental health lawyers and sued in 1988, forcing drastic changes in the ways these cases are handled.
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