JONES v. DIAMOND

No. 78-1289.

594 F.2d 997 (1979)

Marvin JONES, on his own behalf and on behalf of those similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Fred R. DIAMOND, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Lipman, Miami, Fla., John L. Walker, Jackson, Miss., Lennox S. Hinds, Nat'l Conference of Black Lawyers, Harlem, N. Y., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Raymond L. Brown, Pascagoula, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, CLARK and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenge to nearly every conceivable facet of the Jackson County jail at Pascagoula, Mississippi, in use at the time the lawsuit was filed and the case was tried.

Since oral argument before us, a new jail designed for single cell occupancy, with approximately 80 square feet to the cell, has been opened. In uncontroverted post argument affidavits, we have been assured that the "old jail...

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