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LEXINGTON-FAYETTE DET. CTR. v. CROCKETT

No. 89-SC-75-DG.

786 S.W.2d 869 (1990)

LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER, Harold Buchignani, Director and Ray Sabbatine, Assistant Director, Appellants, v. Thomas CROCKETT, George Ludlow, Jake Devare, Willie Johnson, Hugh Estill, Peter A. Davy, John Young, Jr., Michael Ray Johnson, Pleaz Frye, Jeff Elam, Chester G. Harris, Henry Levance, Isaiah Warren, Alex R. Hobbs, and George Wilson (Secretary of Kentucky Corrections Cabinet), Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Gardner, Lexington, for appellants.

Mark A. Posnansky, C. McGehee Isaacs, Dept. of Public Advocate, Louisville, for appellees.

Barbara W. Jones, Corrections Cabinet, Office of General Counsel, Frankfort, for George Wilson.

LEIBSON, Justice.

This appeal is from two separate orders entered by Judge N. Mitchell Meade of Fayette Circuit Court addressing problems created by the overcrowded conditions in the Fayette County Detention Center.

The first order, dated June 16, 1987, mandated that the "Fayette County Detention Center and the Kentucky Corrections Cabinet shall, within thirty days ... decrease the population of the Fayette County Detention Center by fifty-six inmates from...

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