SMITH v. DODRILL

Civ. A. No. 86-76-W.

718 F.Supp. 1293 (1989)

Michael R. SMITH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. A.V. DODRILL, Jr., Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Corrections, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. West Virginia, Wheeling Division.

August 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. King, Charleston, W.Va., for plaintiffs.

Charles G. Brown, Atty. Gen., Charleston, W.Va., for defendant.


ORDER

MAXWELL, Chief Judge.

On January 1, 1986, a prisoner takeover riot broke out at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, at Moundsville, West Virginia, at which time thirteen guards then employed at the State Penitentiary were taken hostage by said rioting inmates and allegedly were threatened, searched, stripped, handcuffed, blindfolded, choked, beaten, stampeded, held hostage at knife or gun-point and/or imprisoned. The thirteen named plaintiffs, all...

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