Legal Opinion
Inmates of Occoquan, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Persons Similarly Situated v. Marion S. Barry, Mayor, (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 12, 1988No. 87-5055, 87-5295PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STARR.
Dissenting Opinion filed by District Judge HAROLD H. GREENE.
*829STARR, Circuit Judge:
This case ushers us into the sensitive and difficult arena of prison-conditions litigation. In the wake of a prison riot, a number of inmates at the District of Columbia’s facilities in Occoquan, Virginia, brought suit in federal district court, challenging their conditions of confinement as violative of the Eighth Amendment. The District Court sustained the challenge and entered a remedy imposing a population cap on the Occoquan facilities. For the reasons that…
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