KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:
Six prisoners in the California state prison at San Quentin brought this suit to establish that conditions of their confinement and certain practices directed against them by prison guards were in violation of the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Constitution. U. S. Const. amend. VIII. The action was commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Director of
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