MEYERS v. ALLDREDGE

Civ. No. 72-132.

348 F.Supp. 807 (1972)

Joel MEYERS et al., v. Noah ALLDREDGE, Warden, United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, et al.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

As Amended June 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Harvey, Ambrose Campana, American Civil Liberties Union of Pa., Williamsport, Pa., for Prison Solidarity Committee.

Leonard Kolleeny, New York City, Herman Schwartz, Buffalo, N. Y., Michele Hermann, Prisoners' Rights Project-American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Julius Altman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., Clair Cripe, Bureau of Prisons Legal Office, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEALON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs commenced this suit on behalf of themselves and all inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in which they challenge the constitutionality of conditions and practices at the Penitentiary following an inmate work stoppage in February, 1972.1 The plaintiffs advanced the following contentions: (1) the actions of the administration were so fundamentally...

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