DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 
DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS & ST. JOHN 
 
LAWRENCE CARTY, et al.,   
Plaintiff, 
v. 
ALBERT BRYAN, et al., 
              Defendants. 
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Civil No. 1994-78 
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ATTORNEYS: 
 
Eric Balaban 
National Prison Project of the ACLU 
Washington, DC 
 
For the plaintiff Lawrence Carty, 
 
Denise George-Counts, Attorney General 
Carol Thomas-Jacobs, AAG 
Ariel Marie Smith-Francois, AAG 
Virgin Islands Department of Justice 
Christiansted, VI 
 
For the defendant Governor Albert Bryan. 
 
 
ORDER 
 
GÓMEZ, J. 
On September 11, 2019, the Court held a quarterly 
evidentiary hearing in this matter. After the evidentiary 
hearing, the parties met with the Court briefly to discuss the 
near-term, mid-term, and long-term tasks suggested by the Court 
Experts in response to the Court’s August 2, 2019, order. See 
Order, August 2, 2019, ECF No. 1133; A Plan of Near-Term, Mid-
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term and Long-Term Objectives to Achieve Substantial Compliance 
with Settlement Agreement Provisions, ECF No. 1143-1; Proposed 
Near, Mid and Long-Term Mental Health Tasks, ECF No. 1144-1. 
Such tasks were suggested as one pathway by which the Virgin 
Islands Bureau of Corrections (“BOC”) could come into 
substantial compliance with the Settlement Agreement adopted and 
entered as an Order of the Court on August 29, 2013, (the “2013 
Settlement Agreement”) and the October 12, 1994, Settlement 
Agreement (the “1994 Settlement Agreement”) in this matter. 
At the post-hearing conference, the BOC reasserted several 
of the objections it had filed in response to the tasks 
recommended by the Court Experts. See Defs.’ Objections to the 
Ct. Experts Proposed Near-Term, Mid-Term and Long Term Tasks, 
ECF No. 1159. Significantly, the BOC has not presented any 
alternative tasks by which it could achieve substantial 
compliance with the 1994 and 2013 Settlement Agreements.  
The premises considered, it is hereby 
 
ORDERED that, no later than 3:00 p.m. on September 25, 
2019, the BOC shall file a plan proposing specific, 
demonstrable, and tangible tasks necessary to be undertaken to 
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obtain substantial compliance with the provisions of the 1994 
and 2013 Settlement Agreements; it is further 
 
ORDERED that to the extent he wishes to do so, Carty shall 
file any response to the BOC’s proposed plan by no later than 
3:00 p.m. on October 1, 2019. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Curtis V. Gómez 
 
District Judge 
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