What is the effect of a federal district court finding that a state correctional facility has gone too far and too fast in imposing its own ideas of how to run a prison?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Eng v. Smith, 849 F.2d 80 (2nd Cir. 1988):

This is not a case like Dean v. Coughlin, where the district court "went too far and too fast in imposing upon the state correctional facility its own ideas of how a prison ..." should be run. 804 F.2d at 214. The court took painstaking efforts to try and reach a settlement among the parties and only when those efforts failed did it order limited relief to provide safeguards for seriously mentally ill inmates pending resolution of the case. And, the relief ordered apparently does not go much beyond procedures that defendants have voluntarily implemented and is apparently based on the recommendations of New York's OMH.

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