LAREAU v. MANSON

No. 948, Docket 81-2012.

651 F.2d 96 (1981)

Donald J. LAREAU, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner of Correction, State of Connecticut, Defendant-Appellant. Jesus CAMPOS, James Scott, Jr., Donald J. Lareau and Clarence King, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner of Correction, State of Connecticut, and Richard Wezowicz, Warden, Hartford Community Correctional Center, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Jon C. Blue, Legal Assistance to Prisoners, Hartford, Conn. (James W. Greene, Jr., Legal Assistance to Prisoners, Martha Stone, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Aryeh S. Friedman, New York City, for amicus curiae Lawyers Committee for Intern. Human Rights.

Jerome N. Frank, Legal Services Organization, New Haven, Conn. (Renee D. Chotiner, John L. Pottenger, Jr., Stephen Wizner, Alice Bussiere, New Haven, Conn., of counsel, Miriam Berkman, Yale Law School Intern, on brief), for amici curiae Citizens for Humanizing Criminal Justice, Conn., Citizens Lobby, Criminal Justice Committee, Community Return, Inc., Criminal Justice Program, Catholic Family Services, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, Legal Aid Ass'n of Hartford, New York City Chapter, Nat. Lawyers' Guild, Project More, Unitarian Universalist Criminal Justice Coalition, Urban League of Greater New Haven.

Before FRIENDLY, MANSFIELD and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

John R. Manson, Commissioner of Correction of the State of Connecticut, and Richard Wezowicz, Warden of the Hartford Community Correctional Center ("HCCC"), appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the District of Connecticut entered pursuant to a Memorandum of Decision by Judge Jose A. Cabranes, Lareau v. Manson, 507 F.Supp. 1177 (D.Conn.1980), in a class action brought under 42 U.S.C...

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