RAMOS v. LAMM

No. 77-K-1093.

485 F.Supp. 122 (1979)

Fidel RAMOS, David Lee Anderson, Sadiki Lisimba Ajamu (a/k/a Eugene Collins), Alexander Roses, Mark J. Menchetti and Lester Lazenby et al., Plaintiffs, v. Richard D. LAMM, Allen L. Ault, John Perko, Edgar Fox and William Wilson, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

As Amended December 26, 1979.

On Motion for Stay of Execution February 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Hartley and Hugh Q. Gottschalk, ACLU Foundation of Colorado, Inc., Denver, Colo., Peggy A. Wiesenberg and Ralph I. Knowles, Jr., The Nat. Prison Project, Washington, D. C., Dudley P. Spiller, Jr., Denver, Colo., The Colorado Coalition of Legal Services Programs, for plaintiffs.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Joseph N. de Raismes, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard H. Goldberg, Jeffrey Weinman, and Maureen E. Phelan, Dennis Sousa, Henry L. Solano, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, Colo., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

This action is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 19831 challenging conditions of confinement at the maximum security unit of the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colorado. Plaintiffs are persons incarcerated in this maximum security unit, and defendants include the governor of Colorado, the executive director of the Department...

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