Board of Health of State v. Town of De Quincy

This is an application by the state board of health for an injunction to restrain the authorities of the town of DeQuincy from confining prisoners in the town-jail, on the ground that said jail was not constructed -and was not maintained in accordance .with the requirements of Act 251 of" 1918.

The court below sustained the plaintiff's demand to the extent of enjoining the officers of the municipality from using said jail as now constructed;

“For the purpose of confining more than two classes of prisoners, that is, from confining both men and women and people of the white and colored races;…