Legal Opinion
Withers v. Levine
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1980No. Nos. 78-6336, 78-6337PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:
In this § 19831 action, the district court granted declaratory and injunctive relief, requiring prison officials to devise a procedure to provide inmates with reasonable protection from aggressive sexual assaults. The findings of fact are fully supported in the record, and, since we approve the court’s legal reasoning, we affirm. See Withers v. Levine, 449 F.Supp. 473 (D.Md. 1978).
In the Maryland House of Corrections, a medium security institution for males, some homosexual rapes are reported annually. There was evidence, however, that many more such assaults go…
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