Depriest ex rel. C.B. v. Fisher
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
Prisoners at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility filed this lawsuit in November 2010, challenging what they referred to as the “barbaric, unconstitutional condi*210tions” of confinement and alleging that Walnut Grove was violating their Eighth Amendment rights. In March 2012, the district court entered a consent decree, approving and adopting substantive remedies to which the parties had agreed. In 2015, Walnut Grove filed a motion to terminate the decree in its entirety, pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, claiming that prospective relief was no longer necessary. In…
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