Prison Worker Drug Tests Barred

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge today prohibited the Reagan Administration from beginning random drug testing of all 13,000 federal prison employees, saying no justification had been shown for the testing of “innocent, law-abiding and wholly competent” workers.

Senior U.S. District Judge Stanley Weigel, who had issued a temporary restraining order against the prison testing program May 20, three days before it was scheduled to start, handed down a preliminary injunction today. The Administration plans to appeal immediately to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Assistant U.S. Atty. George Stoll.