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18 UNNAMED JOHN SMITH PRISONERS v. MEESE

Nos. 87-2490, 87-2491.

851 F.2d 1236 (1988)

18 UNNAMED "JOHN SMITH" PRISONERS, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE; Gerald Shur; Norman Carlson; Peter Carlson; Frank Sizer; U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, Defendants-Appellees. 36 UNNAMED "JOHN SMITH" PRISONERS; 5 Unnamed "John & Jan Smith" Prisoners' Relatives; 1 Unnamed "John Smith" Prisoner; 1 Unnamed "John Smith" Prisoner Family, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE, United States Attorney General; Gerald Shur, Associate Director, Office of Enforcement Operations, Washington, D.C.; Norman Carlson, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons; Peter Carlson, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix, AZ: Frank Sizer, Unit Manager, Mesa Unit, Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix, AZ, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Birnbaum & Michael S. Rubin, Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre & Friedlander, Larry L. Smith, O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears, Jeffrey A. Murphy, Morris, Walker & Mecham, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael A. Johns and Linda A. Akers, Asst. U.S. Attys., Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants-appellees.

Before ALDISERT, BEEZER and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

In this consolidated action, inmates and their families (collectively, inmates) attack the validity of proposed double bunking of prisoners housed in the Protective Custody Unit (PCU) at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Phoenix, Arizona. Plaintiff inmates are protected witnesses in the Department of Justice's Witness Protection Program (WITSEC Program), which protects witnesses who have testified against organized crime defendants...

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