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KNUCKLES v. PRASSE

Civ. A. Nos. 41770, 42445.

302 F.Supp. 1036 (1969)

William E. KNUCKLES, Arthur L. McKee, Isaiah Green and Joseph Tillery, Plaintiffs, v. Arthur T. PRASSE, Commissioner of Correction, Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia, and Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Defendants. James WASHINGTON, Plaintiff, v. J. R. BRIERLEY, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

July 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Foulke, Morris R. Brooke, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Frank Wright, Richard M. Goldberg, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

I.

INTRODUCTION

These two consolidated actions under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, lead us into the difficult area where the exigencies of effective prison administration threaten to collide with those constitutionally protected freedoms assured all persons not in prison. Plaintiffs are five prisoners in the Pennsylvania State Correctional System. Knuckles, McKee, Green and Tillery...

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