Billy Hite, and Bobby Sessions, Thomas E. Jones v. William D. Leeke, Commissioner, J. L. Harvey, Warden of Kirkland Correctional Institution

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• holding that in the absence of arbitrary and capricious actions by prison staff, “the number of inmates[] who may be safely assigned to a cell is a matter resting within the sound discretion of the prison administration”
• emphasizing that “the deprivation of the basic elements of hygiene” violates the Eighth Amendment

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