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INMATES OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL v. PEIRCE

Civ. A. No. 76-743.

487 F.Supp. 638 (1980)

INMATES OF the ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, Thomas Price Bey, Arthur Goslee, Robert Maloney, and Calvin Milligan on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Robert PEIRCE, Chairman, Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors and all other members of the Board, James Jennings, Warden Allegheny County Jail; and James Flaherty, Robert Peirce and Thomas Foerster, Commissioners for Allegheny County, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jere Krakoff, Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Dennis Biondo, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

COHILL, District Judge.

This civil rights class action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was filed in 1976 by inmates of the Allegheny County Jail challenging allegedly unconstitutional conditions at the jail. After a lengthy trial, this Court concluded that many of the deficiencies at the jail arose to the level of constitutional violations. Opinions and orders were entered on January 4, 1978, and October 11, 1978. See Owens-El v. Robinson...

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