PITTS v. THORNBURGH

No. 88-5058.

866 F.2d 1450 (1989)

Bettye Delores PITTS, Gwendolyn A. Samuels, et al., Appellants, v. Richard THORNBURGH, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey P. Ayres, with whom John E. Scheuermann, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Susan S. McDonald, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee District of Columbia.

Mark E. Nagle, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John D. Bates and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees Richard Thornburgh, et al.

Before STARR and BUCKLEY, Circuit Judges, and JACKSON, District Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STARR.

STARR, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court rejecting an equal protection challenge to certain prison policies of the District of Columbia, 684 F.Supp. 303. The District has for many years relied upon the facilities of the federal Bureau of Prisons for the incarceration of long-term women offenders convicted in the local...

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