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INMATES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL v. EISENSTADT

No. 73-1377.

494 F.2d 1196 (1974)

INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Thomas S. EISENSTADT, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees, Frank A. Hall, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terence P. O'Malley, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., and Walter H. Mayo, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. were on brief, for appellant.

Max D. Stern, Boston, Mass., with whom Burnham, Stern & Shapiro, Matthew Feinberg, Boston, Mass., and Stanley A. Bass, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, were on brief, for Inmates of Suffolk County Jail, appellees.

Lawrence J. Ball, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., with whom Kevin F. Moloney, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for Sheriff of Suffolk County, and others, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

The Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction appeals from an order of the district court entered in aid of its judgment rendered in an action brought by inmates of Boston's Charles Street Jail (the "Jail"). 360 F.Supp. 676 (D.Mass. 1973). The inmates had sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaining of unconstitutional conditions at the Jail, and the court, after extended proceedings, had found...

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