United States Eighth Circuit

While the district court applied the correct standard to determine whether conditions at the Iowa State Penitentiary were constitutional, the court erred in failing to balance the liberty interests of the inmates against the state's penological interests.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2000
• Published 12/19/2000

Judges

• LAY, Circuit Judge., Before:  RICHARD S. ARNOLD, LAY and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon E. Allen, argued, Des Moines, Iowa (Kristin W. Ensign, on the brief), for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick E. Ingram, argued, Iowa City, Iowa (Philip B. Mears, on the brief), for Appellees.