Jack Gittlemacker v. Arthur T. Prasse, Commissioner of Prisons of Pa. And Frank C. Johnston, Warden, State Correctional Institution, Dallas, Pa

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 1970-06-12

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OPINION OF THE COURT ALDISERT, Circuit Judge. In this appeal we are confronted with the increasingly recurrent claim that the civil rights of appellant, an inmate of a state penal institution, have been violated by prison officials. The mounting frequency of civil rights claims, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , in the federal co…

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