Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Hendrick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 16, 1986No. 167 E.D. Appeal Docket 1984PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Chief Justice.
This Court has assumed extraordinary jurisdiction of appeals by officials of the City of Philadelphia from two orders entered by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in the wake of protracted litigation concerning conditions in the Philadelphia prison system. The first order established timetables for the reduction of the prison population and the elimination of double and triple-celling of inmates. The second held the appellants in contempt for noncompliance with those schedules and imposed monetary sanctions. Our review herein is limited to a determination of the…
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