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INMATES OF THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL v. WECHT

Civ. A. No. 76-743.

848 F.Supp. 52 (1994)

INMATES OF THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, Thomas Price Bey, Arthur Goslee, Robert Maloney, and Calvin Milligan on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Cyril H. WECHT, President of the Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors and the other members of the Board: Thomas Foerster and William H. Hunt, Commissioners for Allegheny County; Frank J. Lucchino, Controller for Allegheny County, Eugene Coon, Sheriff for Allegheny County; the Honorable Patrick R. Tamilia, Michael J. O'Malley and Marion K. Finkelhor, Judges Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County; Richard S. Caliguiri, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh; Harriet McCray; Monsg. Charles Owen Rice and Charles Kozakiewicz, Warden of the Allegheny County Jail, and William B. Robinson, Executive Director of Prison Inspectors, and Cyril Wecht, Thomas Foerster and William H. Hunt, as Commissioners of Allegheny County, Defendants, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

March 30, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter G. Nychis and Timothy W. Pawol, Asst. Allegheny County Solicitors, Pittsburgh, PA, for defendant Allegheny County.

Donald Driscoll, Neighborhood Legal Services Assn. and Jere Krakoff, Pittsburgh, PA, for plaintiffs.

Thomas F. Halloran, Office of Atty. Gen., Western Regional Office and Lynette Norton, Picadio McCall Kane & Norton, Pittsburgh, PA, for third-party defendant.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

COHILL, District Judge.

The new Allegheny County Jail building has arisen! Located on the Monongahela riverfront, its size and solidity convince the undersigned that it is no mirage. It has been almost two decades since the litigation concerning jail conditions was first initiated.

Ironically enough, the early problems were related to sanitary conditions and the humane treatment of prisoners, not overcrowding. When I wrote...

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