Ramos v. Lamm

ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

After a five week trial during October and November, 1979, I ruled that

The conditions of confinement at the Canon Correctional Facility meet all tests [of unconstitutionality] by all known measures of proof. As shown by substantial evidence, these conditions shock the conscience, are incompatible with evolving standards of decency, involve unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain, and evidence both deliberate indifference to the prisoner’s protected interests and ‘circumstances and conduct so grossly incompetent, inadequate or excessive as ... to be intolerable to…