GATES v. COLLIER

No. GC 71-6-K.

407 F.Supp. 1117 (1975)

Nazareth GATES et al., Plaintiffs, v. John COLLIER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

October 31, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy S. Haber, Boulder, Colo., Paul S. Lawrence, Dept. Justice, Washington, D. C., David M. Lipman, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

P. Roger Googe, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

KEADY, Chief Judge.

This suit began as a multifaceted constitutional attack on conditions of confinement at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (familiarly known as Parchman) by a plaintiff class of penitentiary inmates. The United States subsequently entered the case as plaintiff-intervenor. In October 1972, we issued our initial findings and decree1 specifying and...

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