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U.S. v. STATE OF MICH.

No. G84-63.

680 F.Supp. 270 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF MICHIGAN, James J. Blanchard, Governor of Michigan, Michigan Corrections Commission; Gwen Andrew, Chairman, Michigan Corrections Commission, Thomas Eardley, G. Robert Cotton, Dwayne Waters, Don Le Duc, Members, Michigan Corrections Commission, Michigan Department of Corrections, Perry M. Johnson, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, Robert Brown, Jr., Deputy Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, Dale Foltz, Regional Administrator, State Prison of Southern Michigan, John Jabe, Warden, Michigan Reformatory, Theodore Koehler, Warden, Marquette Branch Prison, John Prelesnik, Administrator, Reception and Guidance Center, State Prison of Southern Michigan, and Jack Bergman, Administrator, Michigan Intensive Programming Center, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

March 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew J. Barrick, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union by Elizabeth Alexander and Adjoa Aiyetoro, Washington, D.C., and Patricia A. Streeter, Detroit, Mich., as amicus curiae.

Frank J. Kelly, Atty. Gen., State of Mich. by Thomas Nelson and Brian MacKenzie, Lansing, Mich., for defendants.

OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

The issue to be addressed in this opinion is whether the defendants' use of food loaf for prisoners in segregation units violates either the standards created by the Consent Decree and the State Plan for Compliance or constitutional standards. Food loaf is a substance prepared by grinding up and combining the various components of a regular prison meal.1

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