KNAPP v. ROMER

No. 95-K-1878.

909 F.Supp. 810 (1995)

Jeffrey KNAPP, Charles Baldwin, Lee Burke, Delbert Leggions, Jay Montague, Ray Shaffer, Manual Torres, Jacob Valdez, and Richard Westley, Plaintiffs, v. Roy S. ROMER, Governor of the State of Colorado; Aristedes Zavaras, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections; Bowie County, Texas; Mary Choate, Sheriff of Bowie County, Texas; Anthony Richardson, Warden of the Bowie County Correctional Facility, all in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

December 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Hartley, Steven W. Black, Holland & Hart, Denver, CO, David H. Miller, ACLU Foundation of Colorado, Denver, CO, for Plaintiffs/Petitioners.

John A. Lizza, First Assistant Attorney General, Denver, CO, for Defendants/Respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs are nine Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) inmates incarcerated in the Bowie County Correctional Facility (BCCF), Bowie County, Texas pursuant to a contract with the State of Colorado. Plaintiffs assert the Colorado defendants' constitutional obligations toward inmates apply equally to prisons in Colorado and prisons outside Colorado where Colorado inmates are incarcerated. Plaintiffs...

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