STEVENSON v. REED

No. GC 73-76-K.

391 F.Supp. 1375 (1975)

Willie X. STEVENSON and Ronald Paul Adams et al., Plaintiffs, v. Jack K. REED et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

March 27, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Lipman, Jackson, Miss., National Legal Aid and Defender Asso., National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae, for plaintiffs.

P. Roger Googe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

This § 1983 class action is a separate chapter of litigation against the Mississippi State Penitentiary brought by Willie X. Stevenson and Ronald Paul Adams, black and white inmates respectively, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of all present and future penitentiary inmates against the penitentiary superintendent and other prison officials.1 Plaintiff-inmates contend...

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