UNITED STATES EX REL. JONES v. RUNDLE

Civ. A. No. 71-74.

358 F.Supp. 939 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Sheridan R. JONES v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent, Gerald L. Lightcap, Dept. Super.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 10, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Spritzer, Philadelphia, Pa., Supervising Atty., Robert H. Ament, Legal Intern, Prison Research Council, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Michael Minkin, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

BODY, District Judge.

In this action, the plaintiff, Sheridan R. Jones, alleges that the defendants under color of state law denied him his rights to procedural due process in a prison disciplinary hearing and thereafter confined him in punitive segregation which violated his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. The hearing concerned an alleged violation of prison rules. The plaintiff...

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