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CO. OF ALLEGHENY ET AL. v. COM. OF PA.

No. 3649 C.D. 1983.

85 Pa.Commw. 73 (1984)

The County of Allegheny and The Prison Board of Allegheny County, Petitioners v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis Biondo, Assistant County Solicitor, with him, James H. McLean, County Solicitor, for petitioners.

Francis R. Filipi, Deputy Attorney General, with him, Allen C. Warshaw, Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Litigation Section, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued June 5, 1984, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges ROGERS, WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL, DOYLE and PALLADINO.

OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, September 6, 1984:

Allegheny County (County), along with many other counties in the Commonwealth, is confronted with a prison crisis caused by over-crowding. In response to a suit by inmates, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, after finding that the Allegheny County Jail (County Jail) was unconstitutionally overcrowded entered an order directing...

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