Tony Walker v. Tommy G. Thompson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2002-05-01

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a Wisconsin state prisoner against prison officials and a former governor of the state, charging a variety of violations of the plaintiffs federal rights, only three of which need detain us: that the defendants conspired to keep him and other prisoners in prison beyond their mandatory release date; that the defendant priso…

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