Legal Opinion
Preston v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 15, 1978No. Nos. 78-2401, 78-2516PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.
The principal question before us is whether the district judge abused his discretion when he issued a preliminary injunction which required officials in charge of the Pontiac Correctional Center to provide two showers a week to all inmates and a daily hour of yard recreation to prisoners incarcerated in the west cellblock. We hold that the district judge did not abuse his discretion. We also hold that the district judge did not err when, in conjunction with the preliminary injunction, he found as a matter of law that tensions at Pontiac subsided soon after the July 22…
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