Crain v. Bordenkircher

BROTHERTON, Justice:

This proceeding originated in a consolidated action for habeas corpus instituted by the plaintiffs in 1981 to secure relief from conditions of imprisonment at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville. On June 10,1981, the Honorable Arthur M. Recht of the First Judicial Circuit was appointed to conduct the hearings and trial on the issue of whether the conditions of confinement at the West Virginia Penitentiary were unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Article III, Section 5 of the…