Wali v. Coughlin

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1985-02-05

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge: The Sisyphean task of maintaining order in our nation’s prisons has, in recent times, been discharged with diligence and industry. Those men and women charged with the daily control of these most volatile of institutions have done much to bring them up to the standards expected of a civilized society approaching the end of the twentieth century. It cannot be gainsaid that much remains to b…

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