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CHAPMAN v. RHODES

No. C-1-75-251.

434 F.Supp. 1007 (1977)

Kelly CHAPMAN, # 122531, Lucasville, Ohio, and Richard Jaworski, # 140-021, Lucasville, Ohio, Plaintiffs, v. James A. RHODES, Governor, George F. Denton, Director of Rehabilitation and Corrections, and A. R. Jago, Warden, SOCF, Lucasville, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Ohio, W. D.

June 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher D. Stanley, Cleveland, Ohio, Robert P. App, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, R. Raymond Twohig, Jr., Louis A. Jacobs, Ohio State U. College of Law, Howard J. Rosenberg, Bruce Friedman, Jan C. Leventer, and Edward Clark Barrows, Columbus, Ohio, for plaintiffs.

Allen P. Adler, Leo J. Conway, Asst. Attys. Gen., Columbus, Ohio, for defendants.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HOGAN, Chief Judge.

Introductory

The basic question in this case is whether or not the prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility for Ohio state prisoners at Lucasville, Ohio, are presently being subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" or are being "deprived of life or liberty without due process of law" by reason of the "double celling"—and its concomitants—which is now...

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