CROWE v. LEEKE

No. 75-2099.

540 F.2d 740 (1976)

Niles CROWE, Appellant, v. William D. LEEKE, Director of S. C. Department of Corrections, and Joe Martin, Warden, Central Correctional Institution, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Niles Crowe, appellant pro se.

Emmett H. Clair, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S. C., for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Niles Crowe instituted an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the conditions of his confinement in Cell Block Number Two of the South Carolina Correctional Institution. Seeking monetary and injunctive relief, Crowe alleged that he is confined with two other inmates in a cell approximately six feet high, nine feet long and seven feet wide and because the cell is so small only two inmates can sleep in beds, forcing the third inmate to sleep on...

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