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RICHARDSON v. SHERIFF OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY

407 Mass. 455 (1990)

553 N.E.2d 1286

JOHN RICHARDSON & others vs. SHERIFF OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 17, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Zielinski (David B. Deitch & Lee J. Gartenberg with him) for the plaintiffs.

Richard L. Barry, Jr. (Ellen M. Dente with him) for the defendant.

Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, & Michael H. Cohen, for Department of Correction, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment enjoining the defendant, the sheriff of Middlesex County, from continuing certain practices instituted as a result of overcrowding at the Middlesex County jail (jail). The sheriff claims error in the judge's conclusion that conditions of confinement at the jail violated the plaintiffs' constitutional rights, and in the denial of his motion to compel joinder of additional defendants pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 19, 365 Mass...

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