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PRUITT v. JOINER

No. 3-176A22.

395 N.E.2d 276 (1979)

Leslie PRUITT, Sheriff, Lake County Commissioners, Lake County Common Council, and Lake County Auditor, Appellants (Respondents below), v. Phillip JOINER, John Haybron, James Faison, and Terrance White, Appellees (Petitioners below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lorenzo Arredondo, Asst. Lake County Atty., East Chicago, Martell B. Royer, Hammond, Robert L. DeLoney, Asst. Lake County Atty., East Chicago, for appellants.

Ivan E. Bodensteiner, Dean L. Sutton, Valparaiso, for appellees.

GARRARD, Presiding Judge.

This case arises on appeal from an order issued by the Lake County Superior Court on a writ of habeas corpus. On January 23, 1975 appellees, four pre-trial detainees in the Lake County Jail, filed a petition for the writ naming Leslie Pruitt, Sheriff of Lake County, as respondent alleging that they were being subjected to illegal and unconstitutional living conditions in the jail and illegal treatment by jail personnel, to-wit: beatings,...

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