WILSON v. KELLEY

Civ. A. No. 11647.

294 F.Supp. 1005 (1968)

Johnny C. WILSON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Asa D. KELLEY, Jr., Director of the State Board of Corrections of Georgia, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

June 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wm. Brent, Decatur, Ga., Howard Moore, Jr., Peter E. Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., P. Walter Jones, Albany, Ga., Charles Morgan, Jr., Reber F. Boult, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Arthur Kinoy, Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, C. B. King, Albany, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Twitty & Twitty, Frank S. Twitty, Sr., Camilla, Ga., for defendant, Lynwood Williford.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Harold N. Hill, Jr., W. Wheeler Bryan, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant, Wm. H. Burson.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Marion O. Gordon, Mathew Robins, Asst. Attys. Gen., John W. Hinchey, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant, Asa D. Kelley, Jr.

Farkas, Landau & Davis, Albany, Ga., for defendant, Lewis Davis.

Harold Sheats, County Atty., John T. Ferguson, Asst. County Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for T. Ralph Grimes.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Don L. Hartman, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants, Edwin L. Swain, Thomas H. Milner, Jr., L. E. Bowen, Sr., and Dr. Hugh A. Goodwin.

Marion O. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for John B. Stanley, Stetson Bennett, Jr., Richard W. Watkins, Jr., and Jack T. Rutledge.

Before TUTTLE, Circuit Judge, and HOOPER and SMITH, District Judges.


SIDNEY O. SMITH, Jr., District Judge:

In this three-judge suit, the plaintiffs bring this action for declaratory and injunctive relief. Plaintiffs are white and black inmates, former inmates, or prospective inmates of all Georgia penal institutions at the juvenile, municipal, county and state levels. The defendants are the officials responsible for the operation of such institutions and, as finally constituted, include...

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