United States ex rel. Pugach v. Herold

JAMES T. FOLEY, District Judge.

This is another of the habeas corpus applications from state prisoners confined in upstate New York that have increased in the past three or four years to an unbelievable extent. It seems now a daily routine to receive several new ones while attempting to give the best effort to reading and researching several old ones. In this Northern District of New York we have two major prisons of the State with large prisoner populations: Auburn Prison, at Auburn, N. Y. and Clinton Prison, at Dannemora, N. Y. Expressing my personal viewpoint based upon my own experience,…