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LAREAU v. MANSON

Civ. A. Nos. H 78-145, H 78-199.

507 F.Supp. 1177 (1980)

Donald J. LAREAU v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner of Correction, State of Connecticut. Jesus CAMPOS, James Scott, Jr., Donald J. Lareau and Clarence King v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner of Correction, State of Connecticut, and Richard Wezowicz, Warden, Hartford Community Correctional Center.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

December 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Stone, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, James W. Greene, Jr., Jon C. Blue, Prisoners' Legal Assistance Ass'n, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Stephen J. O'Neill, Lee Bezanson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of the State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

Renee D. Chotiner, New Haven, Conn., for amici curiae Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, et al.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge:

The plaintiffs in these consolidated actions are the class of inmates at the Hartford Community Correctional Center ("HCCC"), including both persons being detained pending trials on criminal charges and convicted inmates serving sentences of imprisonment.1 They challenge a number of the conditions of their confinement — principally, the overcrowding of the HCCC...

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