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GATES v. COLLIER

No. 78-2995.

606 F.2d 115 (1979)

Nazareth GATES et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor, v. John COLLIER, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Reid Welch, Miss. Prisoners' Defense Committee, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

W. V. Westbrook, III, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAY, RUBIN and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal a district court order adopting revised disciplinary rules and procedures for inmates incarcerated at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. We affirm.

In 1972, the district court found that conditions and treatment at the penitentiary deprived inmates of constitutional rights guaranteed by the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. Gates v. Collier, 349 F.Supp. 881...

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