Legal Opinion
Union County Jail Inmates v. Di Buono
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 11, 1983No. 82-5310PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge.
I
This case raises serious and complex questions of the constitutionality of conditions under which pre-trial detainees and sentenced inmates are confined at the Union County Jail (the Jail). All parties agree that the Jail is seriously overcrowded and dispute exists only as to whether that overcrowding and the conditions that result from it are so shocking that confinement in the Jail amounts to punishment of the pretrial detainees in violation of the due process clause or to cruel and unusual punishment of the sentenced inmates in violation of the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Pell v. ProcunierSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by34 opinions
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