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UNITED STATES EX REL. BENNETT v. PRASSE

No. 70-1549.

408 F.Supp. 988 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edward BENNETT, Plaintiff, v. Arthur T. PRASSE, Former Commissioner, Pennsylvania Bureau of Corrections, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 25, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Welks, Third Year Law Student, University of Pa. Indigent Prisoner Litigation Program, for plaintiff.

Michael Minkin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

Plaintiff in this civil rights case1 is a state prisoner serving a 21 to 42 year sentence for second degree murder, aggravated robbery and conspiracy. Originally confined in 1967 at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, plaintiff was demotionally transferred approximately sixteen months later to the State Correctional Institution...

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