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VUN CANNON v. BREED

No. C-70-2423 WHO.

391 F.Supp. 1371 (1975)

Bernard C. VUN CANNON, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Allen F. BREED et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 28, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. E. Bergesen, III, Armando M. Menocal, III, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., of Cal., Jack R. Winkler, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Crim. Div., Edward P. O'Brien, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gloria F. DeHart, Patrick G. Golden, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

ORRICK, District Judge.

On the morning of June 8, 1970, plaintiff, Bernard Vun Cannon ("Vun Cannon"), an inmate in K-Wing at the Deuel Vocational Institute ("DVI"), was stabbed by a fellow prisoner. K-Wing is one of the maximum security portions of DVI, itself a maximum security institution within the California State prison system. The shocking, and today almost unbelievable, description of this medieval prison was provided by those incarcerated and employed there...

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