Hughes v. Turner

WADE, Justice.

This appeal Is from an order granting the petition of H. Clay Hughes, Jr., for a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner H. Clay Hughes, Jr. is a prisoner in the Utah State Prison whose place of abode for the greater portion of his time since his commitment in November, 1960, has been in the maximum security wing of that institution, a place where most of the privileges granted more amenable prisoners are not available to those incarcerated in that wing. The inhabitants of that wing in addition to a curtailment of privileges are only given two meals a day of rather small portions,…