Billy Joe Tyler v. James W. Murphy

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In 1974, inmates of the St. Louis City jail commenced this class action challenging conditions of their confinement. The district court found constitutional violations because of overcrowding, entered injunctive relief, and has extensively regulated the St. Louis jail facilities for over twenty years. In 1993 and 1994, the court issued a series of injunc-tive orders establishing various population ceilings, including a maximum of twenty technical probation violators at the City’s Medium Security Institution (MSI). City judges appealed the 1994 orders, and we summarily…