CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
Re: Request for Class-Action Certification
Lakeith Amir-Sharif v. Dallas County Texas et al
Case No. 3:06-CV-0143-KApril 19, 2006
Enclosed please find a draft of the actual Unsworn Declaration I am filing as an attachment exhibit in support of my motion for Class Action Certification in Case No. 3:06-CV0147-K.
You can post this along with the others you posted about the jail's deplorable conditions and assign the federal court case number above to it. Among all that's going on at the jail, we pre-trial detainees are seeking class action certification against Dallas County, Texas, Sheriff Lupe Valdez, County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield and Parkland Memorial Hospital officials for the suffering we are being subjected to here.
PS: I just received legal mail back from the jail's mailroom which involved a letter and motion to the federal court that I handed in 14 days ago. No reason as usual was given why this legal mail was never processed and mailed out. These corrupt jail officials are knowingly obstructing my access to the court with these sort of actions.
UNSWORN DECLARATION
We / I, the undersigned person(s) being presently incarcerated in the Dallas County Texas jail in Dallas County Texas, hereby declare under penalty of perjury that the following statement is true and correct, based on my own personal knowledge and made of my own free will.
The overall conditions at this jail are filthy, inhumane, unlawful and unconstitutional. The jail is overcrowded and we are being deprived of basic human rights and needs such as, but not limited to, access to adequate medical and mental health care; proper ventilation and recirculation of uncontaminated air; access and exposure to sunlight; clean drinking water; nutritious and properly prepared food; clean clothing and bedding; supplies to properly clean and disinfect our housing area; enough soap and toilet paper to practice basic hygiene; law library in order to utilize our right to due process; and freedom from known and unreasonably hazardous living conditions.
These conditions of confinement have an adverse effect on my general health and well being.
I am aware of the allegations made in the above referenced lawsuit concerning the overall unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the jail. I would like to be added as a plaintiff in this lawsuit. I ask that the court hearing this case grant us class-action certification to prevent the wide-spread and persistent violations of my and other persons human and constitutional rights.
See: The U.S. Department of Justice Investigative Report on the conditions at the Dallas County Jail, plus other related articles about the jail's barbaric conditions:
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/split/documents/dallas_county_findlet_12-8-06.pdfhttp://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-12-14/news/fed-up-feds
http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/Members/issues/pln_2006/01pln06.pdf
http://www.drugnewswire.com/13375/
http://www.texasjailproject.org/actions/speaking_to_the_dallas_county_commissioners
EXECUTED ON NAME OF COMPLAINANT JAIL NUMBER March 13 2006 Stephen Jolly 060 119 90 March 13 2006 Michael W. McLeroy 060 125 46 March 13 2006 Vincent S. Workman 060 185 56 March 13 2006 Michael F. Poore 060 082 70 March 13 2006 Weldon L. Cleaver 060 148 69 March 13 2006 James C. Bryant 060 083 81 March 13 2006 Peter Granados 060 182 94 March 13 2006 Craig Smart 060 129 32 March 13 2006 Ricky Scheynayder 060 124 37 March 13 2006 Roy Trease-Sutton 060 072 96 March 13 2006 Warren M. Goodmanor 050 474 94 March 13 2006 John P. Luczynski 060 209 58 March 13 2006 Mark G. Akin 060 197 75 March 13 2006 Tedrick Goss 060 203 16 March 14 2006 Joseph Hill 060 026 90 March 14 2006 Stacy Eason 050 654 05 March 14 2005 Edosa Omoruyi 060 085 79 March 14 2005 Michael Stewart 050 686 93 March 14 2005 Anthony Ford 051 036 36 March 14 2005 Ronald E. Crawford 060 173 76 March 14 2005 Dante Ray Faison 050 196 89 March 14 2005 Elton Johnson 050 897 69 March 14 2005 Cedric Wilson 050 798 23 Michael Edwards 060 208 62 March 15 2006 Walter C. Velvet III 060 092 69 March 16 2005 Latrail White 060 197 31 March 16 2005 Derrick Claiborne 060 042 37 March 18 2005 Christopher Bell 050 844 41 LA Keovong SA 050 920 95 Michael Paul Taylor 060 190 69 Tyrone Rushing 060 134 77 Martin Zepedo 060 217 16 George Lazare 060 160 92 John H. Martin 060 009 73 Jimmy D. Bailey 050 610 25 Dameon Green 060 199 70 Jesse Gonzales 060 225 23 Marcus Ervin 060 180 66 Steven Moxley 060 197 70 Steve E. Madden 060 223 68
https://ecf.txnd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?153950 and http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov
