Legal Opinion
Inmates of the Allegheny County Jail v. Wecht
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 4, 1989No. Nos. 88-3820, 88-3871PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GIBBONS, Chief Judge:
Once more, and undoubtedly not for the last time, we are presented with an appeal by officials of Allegheny County from an order of the district court in the thirteen-year-old dispute over unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the Allegheny County Jail. To the extent that the order appealed from, dated December 20, 1988, is appealable, we will affirm.
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Prior Proceedings
The Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was erected in 1886. At the time of its construction the population of the County was approximately 450,000. (The U.S. Census…
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