Hayes Williams v. Edwin Edwards, Governor of the State of Louisiana, Defendants

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a District Court decision that prisoner conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola violate the Constitution of the United States and certain laws of the State of Louisiana, and from its order that if the prison is to.contin ue in operation it must be done constitutionally. The court ordered that certain specified and detailed relief, “immediate,” “intermediate,” and “long-range,” be granted “to assure that if the State of Louisiana continues; to operate . . . [the Angola Penitentiary], it does so in accordance with the Constitution…