MIAMI COUNTY, Ind.— The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana finalized $1.2 million in settlements with the Indiana Department of Correction after a multi-year court battle over what they call “dangerous and abusive” conditions at Miami Correctional Facility.
It was the result of 31 individual lawsuits, beginning in 2021, filed by the ACLU of Indiana on behalf of men incarcerated at Miami Correctional who were placed in a restrictive housing unit and left in near-total darkness for at least 23 hours a day.
That $1.2 million is disbursed among those 31 plaintiffs…