LOYD v. ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 98-6189.

176 F.3d 1336 (1999)

Jeffrey LOYD, Bruce Capshaw, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Michael Haley, Commissioner, Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees, Lyle Haas, Administrator of the Jackson County Department of Health in his official capacity, Defendant-Appellee, J.D. Atkins, Jackson County Commissioner; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Johnson, Robert E. Toone, Jr., Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Alice Ann Byrne, Montgomery, AL, for Joe Hopper.

Ellen Leonard, Andrew W. Redd, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Montgomery, AL, for Joe Hopper and Alabama Department of Corrections.

Gary W. Lackey, Scottsboro, AL, for Jackson County Commissioner.

Ashley Hamlett, Montgomery, AL, for Alabama Dept. of Public Health.

Before BIRCH and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and ALAIMO, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, representing all prisoners who are or will be confined at the Jackson County Jail in Scottsboro, Alabama, appeal the district court order terminating: (1) a 1994 consent decree governing the conditions of confinement at the Jackson County Jail, (2) a 1995 permanent injunction ordering the state to remove state inmates from the Jackson County Jail in a timely manner, and (3) a 1995 consent decree governing the responsibilities of the...

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