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ABDUL WALI v. COUGHLIN

No. 693, Docket 84-2387.

754 F.2d 1015 (1985)

Gerald ABDUL WALI, 81-A-5803; LeMoine Arrington, 81-B-981, Kuwasi Balagoon, 83-A-6216; Abdul Beyah, 79-A-137; Theodore Churakos, 82-C-889; Carlos Cortes, 80-B-523; Charles Culhane, 667-A-0065; Frederick Curl, 77-C-687; Kasiem Dodell, 83-A-783; Mujahid Farid, 79-A-0362; Raymond Fernandez, 81-A-2686; Ronald Fox, 82-A-2445; Carlos Gonzalez, 76-A-2277; Charles L. Harris, 81-C-470; Kenneth Johnson, 79-C-575; Jory Lowrence, 77-A-3323; Anthony McBaine, 79-B-1261; Edward McCleary, 80-B-1598; Kevin Richardson, 80-A-3080; Lamarr Rowell, 81-C-738; Sonny Viele, 77-C-95; David Sealy, 81-A-4049; Jose Vazquez, 77-A-4295 and Albert Washington, 77-A-1528, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, Department of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; and Harold J. Smith, Superintendent of the Attica Correctional Facility, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen M. Yacknin, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. (Joseph Kelemen, David C. Leven, Buffalo, N.Y., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Martin A. Hotvet, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, and Robert Hermann, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before KAUFMAN, TIMBERS and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

The Sisyphean task of maintaining order in our nation's prisons has, in recent times, been discharged with diligence and industry. Those men and women charged with the daily control of these most volatile of institutions have done much to bring them up to the standards expected of a civilized society approaching the end of the twentieth century. It cannot be gainsaid that much remains to be done before we can rest. Neither can it...

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