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COOPER v. PICKENS COUNTY, ALA.

Civil Action No. 95-C-2947-W.

955 F.Supp. 1390 (1997)

Gary G. COOPER, et al., Plaintiff, v. PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division.

January 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Thomas Shaw, Walter A. Griess, P.C., Eutaw, AL, for plaintiffs.

Roderick K. Nelson, Lamar Nelson & Miller, Birmingham, AL, W.O. Kirk, Jr., Curry & Kirk, Carrollton, AL, for Ickens County, AL., The Ickens County Commission.

Roderick K. Nelson, Lamar, Nelson & Miller, Birmingham, AL, Ira B. Colvin, Reform, AL, for Avid Abston.

Ellen R. Leonard, Andrew W. Redd, Alabama Department of Corrections Legal Division, Montgomery, AL, for Alabama Department of Corrections, Ron Jones.

John A. Russell, III, Aliceville, AL, for Ernie Louis Virdrine.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

CLEMON, District Judge.

After a January 8, 1997, unannounced inspection of the Pickens County Jail, Pickens County District Judge Woodard wrote:

Conditions in the jail defy word description. Only a personal inspection can reveal the severity of the conditions therein. This jail is inhumane, and not fit for human habitation. It is not fit for livestock. No man who valued his horse or dog would keep it confined within these walls...

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