Illinois Jail Conditions Suit Nets $150,000 Attorney Fee Award

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005 published in Verdict1 October, 2005, page 32

Filed under: Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, PLRA, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Settlements. Location: Illinois.

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.

The suit alleged system-wide problems of overcrowding, double and triple bunking of prisoner's, ...

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