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WAYNE COUNTY JAIL INMATES v. WAYNE COUNTY CHIEF EXEC.

Docket No. 115672.

178 Mich. App. 634 (1989)

444 N.W.2d 549

WAYNE COUNTY JAIL INMATES v. WAYNE COUNTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided July 26, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michigan Legal Services (by Kathleen A. Gmeiner and Alan S. Ells), Glotta, Rawlings & Skutt, P.C. (by Richard M. Skutt), and Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by William H. Goodman and Deborah Choly), for plaintiffs.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling (by Joseph A. Sullivan and Charles N. Raimi), for the Wayne County Sheriff.

Saul A. Green, Wayne County Corporation Counsel, and Glen H. Downs and Ellen E. Mason, for the Chairperson of the Wayne County Board of Commissioners.

Michael E. Duggan, for the Wayne County Chief Executive Officer.

Amicus Curiae:

Michigan Sheriffs' Association (by Paul A. Rosenbaum).

Before: CYNAR, P.J., and WAHLS and MARILYN KELLY, JJ.

MARILYN KELLY, J.

This class action was filed by the Wayne County Jail inmates in 1971. It sought equitable relief from "depraved, inhuman and barbaric" conditions at the jail. A three-judge panel issued its opinion on May 18, 1971. The panel members were then-Wayne Circuit Judges Victor J. Baum, Richard M. Maher and John D. O'Hair. They found conditions in the jail deplorable and in violation of the inmates' rights as claimed. Violations included:

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