WRIGHT v. JACKSON

No. 74-1353.

505 F.2d 1229 (1974)

Nathaniel WRIGHT, III, et al., Appellees, v. Delbert C. JACKSON et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Washington, D. C. (C. Francis Murphy, Louis P. Robbins and Richard W. Barton, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

Geoffrey Judd Vitt, Alexandria, Va. (Cohen & Rosenblum, Alexandria, Va., William H. Allen, Michael A. Schlanger, David S. Weissbrodt, and Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The District of Columbia maintains a number of prisons where persons convicted of crimes committed within the District are confined. Among such prisons is the Lorton Reformatory which, by a special Act of the Congress, was constructed outside the District in Northwest Virginia. As an integral part of the District prison system, however, administrative control of Lorton, as does that of all other prisons in the system, rests entirely...

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