Legal Opinion
Bettye Delores Pitts, Gwendolyn A. Samuels v. Richard Thornburgh
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 31, 1989No. 88-5058PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STARR.
STARR, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court rejecting an equal protection challenge to certain prison policies of the District of Columbia, 684 F.Supp. 303. The District has for many years relied upon the facilities of the federal Bureau of Prisons for the incarceration of long-term women offenders convicted in the local courts of the District of Columbia. The result is that appellants, and other long-term women offenders, find themselves incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in…
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