Beishir v. Swenson

ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, FOR A MORE DEFINITE STATEMENT IN PART, AND GRANTING MOTION FOR MORE DEFINITE STATEMENT IN PART

WILLIAM H. BECKER, Chief Judge.

In their complaint herein under the Federal Civil Rights Act, plaintiffs, state convicts confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary, stated that they have been confined in maximum security since May 22, 1969, which is “in actuality an extra punitive unit used to confine prisoners for the purpose of harassment, oppression, hinderance (sic) and obstructing the litigation of plaintiffs’ cause”; that they…