Inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility v. Nelson Rockefeller, Governor, State of New York

*15MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by certain prisoners of New York State’s Attica Correctional Facility (Attica), a maximum security prison, seeks reversal of orders of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York entered on September 28, October 6 and 7, 1971, denying their application for a preliminary injunction restraining defendants from engaging in conduct allegedly violating plaintiffs’ constitutional rights and dismissing their complaint insofar as it sought permanent injunctive relief and an order permitting it to be maintained as a class suit on behalf of…