United States Ex Rel. Wolfish v. Levi

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

In the explosively growing field of law about prison conditions lately developed in the federal courts, this case has one relatively rare feature: it concerns conditions in one of our own, federal places of confinement. The institution in question is the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) adjoining this courthouse. The action was brought for the MCC’s involuntary occupants (both male and female) as a class, embracing the pre-trial detainees for whom the facility was primarily designed, sentenced prisoners either awaiting assignment to a prison facility or…