HODGES v. KLEIN

No. 76-2662.

562 F.2d 276 (1977)

Louis W. HODGES, Ernest R. Pace, David G. Baldwin, Jerome Boulding, Theodore Gibson, Elliot Hampton, Charles Holman, Ellison Jones, George Martin, Robert Matthews, Kenneth Roberts, Thomas Rumph, John Scott, Thaddeus Springs, Calvin Strothers, and Curtis Tillman, John Washington, Charles E. Allen, # 56176, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated who are or have ever been assigned and transferred to the Management Control Unit of the Trenton State Prison, Appellants, v. Ann KLEIN, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies, William H. Fauver, Director of the Division of Correction and Parole in the New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies, Richard A. Seidl, Supervising Superintendent of the State Prison Complex, Division of Correction and Parole, New Jersey Department of Institutions and Agencies, Alan R. Hoffman, Superintendent of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, William Anderson, Chief Deputy and Special Classification Committee Member of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, Robert G. Simmons, Corrections Captain of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, Lawrence Ashton, Corrections Lieutenant and Chief of the Management Control Unit of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, Stan Samuelson, Director of Professional Services and Special Classification Committee Member of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, E. Calvin Neubert, Special Classification Committee Member of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, John Doe, Special Classification Committee Member of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, Tom Foe, Special Classification Committee Member of the State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey, all individually and in their official capacities. John WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. Alan R. HOFFMAN, Superintendent, New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey. Charles E. ALLEN, # 56176, Appellant, v. Ann KLEIN, Commissioner, Dept. of Institutions & Agencies, Individually and in her official capacity, Alan R. Hoffman, Superintendent, Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, Individually and in his official capacity, William Anderson, Chief Deputy and member of the special classification committee at Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, Individually and in his official capacity, E. Calvin Neubert, Special Classification Committee Member at Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, Individually and in his official capacity, Stan Samuelson, Director of Professional Services and Special Classification Committee member at Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, Individually and in his official capacity.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leora Mosston, Prisoner's Rights Organized Defense, Newark, N. J., Stephen M. Latimer, Rutgers University Law School, Prison Law Clinic, Newark, N. J., for appellants.

William F. Hyland, Atty. Gen. of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J., Stephen Skillman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., of counsel, Joseph T. Maloney, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., on the brief, for appellees.

Before ALDISERT, ROSENN and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


Submitted Under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) September 9, 1977.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

In this appeal, the operation of the Management Control Unit [MCU] of Trenton State Prison, to which prisoners deemed in need of close supervision are assigned, is challenged as violative of the proscription against cruel and unusual punishment and as a violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of...

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