Legal Opinion
Austin v. Hopper
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided August 10, 1998No. CIV.A. 95-T-637-NPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
In this class-action lawsuit, the plaintiffs, who are inmates in the Alabama prison sys tem, challenged the following four policies and practices employed by the prison system: (1) the use of “chain gangs”; (2) the use of “hitching posts”; (3) the denial of visitation rights to certain inmates; and (4) the failure to provide adequate toilet facilities to inmates on work squads. The plaintiffs claim that these policies and practices violated the first, fifth, eighth, and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, as enforced…
2Cases cited91 opinions
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- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by24 opinions
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