Prisoner Class Granted Summary Judgment On Injunctive, Declaratory Relief Claims

Mealey's (October 15, 2018, 1:21 PM EDT) -- TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — While the Prison Litigation Reform Act bars a court from ordering an Indiana county to build a new jail or cap the capacity at the existing jail, an Indiana federal judge on Oct. 10 granted a motion for partial summary judgment by a class of current and former inmates suing over overcrowding and poor conditions and ordered that ongoing constitutional violations at the existing jail be remedied “as quickly as possible” (Jauston Huerta, et al. v. Greg Ewing, et al., No. 16-397, S.D. Ind., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 174120)....