Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail v. Thomas S. Eisenstadt, Etc., Frank A. Hall

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL,

Circuit Judge.

The Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction appeals from an order of the district court entered in aid of its judgment rendered in an action brought by inmates of Boston’s Charles Street Jail (the “Jail”). 360 F.Supp. 676 (D.Mass. 1973). The inmates had sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaining of unconstitutional conditions at the Jail, and the court, after extended proceedings, had found that the “quality of incarceration at Charles Street is ‘punishment’ of such a nature and degree that it cannot be justified by the state’s interest in holding defendants for…