Harold Raymond Hooks v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections

Petitioner instituted the present § 1983 suit seeking to have the Florida prison law library facilities upgraded, or in the alternative, to have the State provide counsel to assist prisoners in their legal endeavors. 1 Recognizing that the Supreme Court then had pending before it the case of Younger v. Gilmore, 2 which was expected to answer the identical question posed by this case, namely, “Does the State have an affirmative federal constitutional duty to furnish prison inmates with expensive law libraries or, alternatively to provide inmates with professional or quasi professional legal…