FINNEY v. MABRY

No. PB-69-C-24.

455 F.Supp. 756 (1978)

Robert FINNEY et al., Petitioners, v. James MABRY et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

June 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Kaplan, Jack Holt, Jr., Phillip H. McMath, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioners.

Robert M. Lyford and James E. Smedley, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

EISELE, Chief Judge.

This case, a class action suit on behalf of all inmates confined in the Arkansas Department of Correction, concerns the constitutionality of the practices and procedures at the several units of the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) and is now in its tenth year of litigation. Hearings were held in January, 1978, in a bifurcated procedure: due to a fear of recrimination by prison officials against prisoners who...

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