General Counsel's Office Ruiz litigation case files (Part I) 1964, 1971-2001, undated bulk 1981-1989, 1996-1999

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General Counsel's Office Ruiz litigation case files (Part I), 1964, 1971-2001, undated, bulk 1981-1989, 1996-1999

General Counsel's Office Ruiz litigation case files (Part I) 1964, 1971-2001, undated bulk 1981-1989, 1996-1999

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities that contract with TDCJ. The Ruiz litigation case files document a 1974 class action suit filed by David Ruiz and others against the Texas Department of Corrections and director W.J. Estelle, on behalf of inmates in the Texas prison system over confinement violations. Records present include correspondence; interoffice memoranda; decision memoranda; reports (internal reports, reports of the monitor, reports of the special master); administrative records (unit reports, plans, procedures, statistics, lists of inmates, manuals, rules and regulations, weekly activity reports, etc.); notes; court documents; and discovery documents, hearing transcripts, testimony and depositions from the 1999 hearings. Dates covered are 1964, 1971-2001, and undated, bulk dating 1981-1989, 1996-1999. These are the correspondence and administrative files of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (formerly the Department of Corrections), General Counsel's Office during the period of federal oversight incurred due to the David Ruiz litigation. General counsels or assistant general counsels/directors represented in these records include Gerald Fall, Steve Martin, J. Kirk Brown, James Hall, and Jim Brady.

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