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BISHOP v. COX

Civ. A. No. 70-C-32-H.

320 F.Supp. 1031 (1970)

Wallace C. BISHOP, Plaintiff, v. J. D. COX, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, O. L. Brown, Director, Department of Welfare and Institutions, and W. P. Edwards, Director, Division of Correctional Field Units, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Virginia, Harrisonburg Division.

November 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Robinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for defendants.

OPINION and JUDGMENT

DALTON, Chief Judge.

Wallace C. Bishop is incarcerated at a Virginia State road camp. He has filed a "petition for Redress" in which he alleges that the institutional physicians have denied him medicine for his nervous condition. It is further alleged that he had been taking this medicine for some time before incarceration and that its deprivation amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Since Bishop complains of the treatment being...

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