Legal Opinion
Chapman v. Rhodes
District Court, S.D. Ohio
Decided June 29, 1977No. C-1-75-251PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
HOGAN, Chief Judge.
Introductory
The basic question in this case is whether or not the prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility for Ohio state prisoners at Lucasville, Ohio, are presently being subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment” or are being “deprived of life or liberty without due process of law” by reason of the “double celling” — and its concomitants — which is now and has been for some time in effect at that institution.
The claim was made in this case, filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, by two inmates who had then recently been double…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Lawrence J. Holt v. Robert Sarver, Commissioner of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Holt v. SarverDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1970
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- David R. Ruiz, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. W. J. Estelle, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Lareau v. MansonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Ruiz v. EstelleDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1980
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