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MORALES FELICIANO v. HERNANDEZ COLON

Civ. No. 79-4(PG).

697 F.Supp. 26 (1987)

Carlos MORALES FELICIANO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rafael HERNANDEZ COLON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

July 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey B. Nachman, Harry Anduze, Rafael Pérez-Bachs, José Fernández-Seín, Carlos E. Ramos, Santurce, P.R., Carlos García-Gutiérrez, Nora Rodríguez, Ivonne Díaz de Carrera, Legal Assistance Clinic, University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Rio Piedras, P.R., for plaintiffs.

Marcos Ramírez, Hato Rey, P.R., Dept. of Justice, Com. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

PEREZ-GIMENEZ, Chief Judge.

This Court has held that overcrowding is at the center of the many ills which make the conditions of imprisonment in the Commonwealth penal institutions constitutionally unacceptable. Overcrowding inflicts on the plaintiff class subhuman living conditions and is the root for serious deficiencies in other areas of prison life. Fischer v. Winter, 564 F.Supp. 281, 298...

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