Hutto v. Finney, No. 76-1660 (U.S. Supreme Court) (437 U.S. 678; 98 S.Ct. 2565) (June 23, 1978) (Justice Stevens)
In this case a sharply divided court affirmed some broad remedial remedies imposed on the Arkansas prison system to stop and deter unconscionable living conditions in the prison system.
After an appalling description of the barbaric conditions in the Arkansas prisons, the Court upheld the district court's order forbidding confinement ...
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