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McGINNIS v. STEVENS

Nos. 2255, 2312.

543 P.2d 1221 (1975)

Frederick P. McGINNIS, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, and Charles G. Adams, Jr., Director of the Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Social Services, Appellants, v. H.C.R. STEVENS, and all other persons presently imprisoned, in custody, or in any manner detained under the authority of the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, Appellees. H.C.R. STEVENS, and all other persons presently imprisoned, in custody, or in any manner detained under the authority of the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, Cross-Appellants, v. Frederick P. McGINNIS, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, and Charles G. Adams, Jr., Director of the Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Social Services, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 1, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan Lawner and Gerald O. Williams, Asst. Attys. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant and cross-appellees.

Robert H. Wagstaff, of Wagstaff & Middleton, Anchorage, for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J. and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER, and BURKE, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

First impression issues relating to constitutional and statutory rights of Alaskan prisoners are presented by this appeal.

Among the multiplicity of deprivations asserted by appellees in their superior court complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief is that inmates under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Social Services of the State of Alaska are denied...

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