PALMIGIANO v. DiPRETE

Civ. A. Nos. 74-172 P, 75-032 P.

700 F.Supp. 1180 (1988)

Nicholas A. PALMIGIANO, et al., v. Edward DiPRETE, et al. Thomas R. ROSS, et al. v. Edward DiPRETE, et al.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

October 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Bronstein, Mark J. Lopez, National Prison Project, ACLU, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

George M. Cappello, Legal Counsel, R.I. Dept. of Corrections, Cranston, R.I., David Dugan, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of R.I., Providence, R.I., for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

Once again this Court is called upon to rule in order to ensure that its eleven year effort to bring the conditions of confinement at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) into compliance with constitutional requirements is not derailed by institutional indifference and bureaucratic handwringing. The specific issue now raised by plaintiffs is whether defendants should be held in civil contempt...

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