Williams v. City of Philadelphia

MEMORANDUM

R. BARCLAY SURRICK, District Judge.

Presently before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion For Class Certification (ECF. No. 2). For the following reasons, the Motion will be granted.

I. BACKGROUND

This is a putative class action for injunctive and declaratory relief in which Plaintiffs, who were inmates in the Philadelphia Prison System (the “PPS”) when this action was filed, contest the conditions of confinement in the PPS. Plaintiffs allege that Defendants’ failure to address overcrowding and to provide inmates with adequate services and supplies has deprived them of their Eighth…