KNIGHT

v.

RAGEN, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (17 total)

• Sostre v. McGINNIS, 442 F.2d 178 (2d Cir. 1971)
  …S.Ct. 1049, 1060, 92 L.Ed. 1356 (1948). Federal courts have been reluctant to intrude themselves into the complex and delicate problems of prison administration. E.g., United States ex rel. Knight v. Ragen, 337 F. 2d 425 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 985, 85 S.Ct. 1355, 14 L.Ed.2d 277 (1964); Hatfield v. Bailleaux, 290 F. 2d 632, 640 (9th Cir. 1961); Childs v. Pegelow, 321 F. 2d 487 (4th Cir. 1963). The time is long since past, however, when a court might describe a prisoner as temporarily “a slav…

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• Jackson v. Bishop, 404 F.2d 571 (8th Cir. 1968)
  …9 U.S. 990, 70 S.Ct. 1015, 94 L.Ed. 1391; Sweeney v. Woodall, 344 U.S. 86, 91-93, 73 S.Ct. 139, 97 L.Ed. 114 (1952) (Douglas J., in dissent to a reversal on procedural grounds). See Kostal v. Tinsley, 337 F. 2d 845, 846 (10 Cir. 1964), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 985, 85 S.Ct. 1354, 14 L.Ed.2d 277. There is authority, some of it recent, with seemingly contrary indications. Certain of these cases rest on the presence of specific statutory provision for corporal punishment for crime. State v. Revis, 193 N.C. 192,…
• Whirl v. C. V. (Buster) Kern & Fid. & Deposit Co. of Md., 407 F.2d 781 (5th Cir. 1968)
  …al basis for the court’s instruction is the general rule that it is not the proper function of courts to interfere in the internal management and discipline of prisons. United States ex rel. Knight v. Ragen, 7 Cir. 1964, 337 F. 2d 425, cert. denied, 380 U.S. 985, 85 S.Ct. 1355, 14 L.Ed.2d 277; Rhodes v. Houston, D.Neb.1962, 202 F.Supp. 624, aff’d., 8 Cir., 309 F. 2d 959, cert. denied, 372 U.S. 909, 83 S.Ct. 724, 9 L.Ed.2d [*797] 719. However, such rule has been applied primarily where improper treatment wit…