GITTLEMACKER v. PRASSE

No. 18249.

428 F.2d 1 (1970)

Jack GITTLEMACKER, Appellant, v. Arthur T. PRASSE, Commissioner of Prisons of Pa. and Frank C. Johnston, Warden, State Correctional Institution, Dallas, Pa.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Gittlemacker, pro se.

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., William C. Sennett, Atty. Gen., on the brief, for appellees.

Before SEITZ and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges, and LATCHUM, District Judge.


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 courts cannot escape attention. Nor can the phenomenon that a large percentage of these complaints, drafted pro se by prisoners...

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