Class Action Suit Filed Against Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women

On July 24, 2012, the Legal Aid Justice Center, Wiley Rein LLP of Washington, D.C., and the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of five women prisoners incarcerated in the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. The lawsuit, titled Scott v. Clarke, and filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, challenges the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc., for failing to provide constitutionally adequate medical care.
 
Read more about the case here.