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PARTON v. WHITE

No. 98-1074.

203 F.3d 552 (2000)

Michael PARTON; Donald Yates; Terry Walls; William Leonard; James Bridgewater; Robert Smith; Ronald L. Boyer; James King, Plaintiffs, Jack Babcock; William Cooper; Larry Schaal; Gerald Bereuter, Appellants, v. Carl WHITE, in his official capacity as Superintendent and Chief Administrative Officer at Missouri Training Center for Men at Moberly, Missouri; Clarence D. Smith, in his official capacity as Director of the Division of Adult Institutions, Missouri Department of Corrections; W. David Blackwell, in his official capacity as Director of the Division of Adult Institutions, Missouri Department of Corrections; Lee Roy Black, in his official capacity as the Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections and Human Resources, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diana M. Wagner, St. Louis, Missouri, for appellant.

David A. Johnston, Jefferson City, Missouri, for appellee.

Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and BEAM, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Four Missouri inmates, on behalf of a class of inmates, appeal from the district court's1 order modifying a prison-conditions consent decree and denying a new trial motion. We affirm.

In 1982, inmates at the Missouri Training Center for Men (MTCM) in Moberly, Missouri, alleged in a class action that they were being subjected to unconstitutional overcrowding in the prison, which had a population of about 1,800. In 1983...

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