Legal Opinion
Laube v. Allen
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided August 31, 2007No. Civil Action 2:02cv957-MHTPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
This is a class-action lawsuit in which the plaintiffs, women incarcerated by the Alabama Department of Corrections, claimed that prison conditions violated their rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The defendants are the Commissioner and Treatment Director of the Alabama Department of Corrections, the wardens of the state prison facilities that house female inmates, and the Governor of Alabama. This court approved two four-year settlement agreements that resolved all the plaintiffs’ claims. Now before the…
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