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INMATES v. OWENS

No. 76-2246.

561 F.2d 560 (1977)

INMATES, Appellants, v. Sheriff OWENS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry R. O'Conor and Colette Winston, Third Year Law Students (Michael A. Millemann, Michael S. Elder and Joyce R. Branda, The Legal Services Clinic, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

David R. Axelson, Portsmouth, Va. (James A. Cales, Jr., Portsmouth, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before LEONARD P. MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge, Second Circuit, sitting by designation, and BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs, nine individuals incarcerated in the Portsmouth, Virginia, county jail, collectively filed this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 naming "Inmates, Petitioner" as plaintiffs and the sheriff as the sole defendant.1 They sought declaratory relief at the outset of the complaint and at the close of that document requested that the district court correct certain conditions...

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