Non-Punitive Segregation Inmates of Holmesburg Prison v. Kelly

MEMORANDUM

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This action involved a challenge by several inmates to the conditions of confinement at Holmesburg Prison. I dismissed all claims except those arising out of an alleged denial by defendants of plaintiffs’ access to the law library. After a bench trial on those claims, I found in favor of plaintiff Richard Harris and I found against plaintiffs Anthony Reid and Jesus Marrero. Because of circumstances described more fully in my Memorandum/Order dated January 25, 1984,1 granted plaintiff Jerome Silo one year from the time of trial, May 1982, to show cause…