RIPPEN v. NICKLES

Civ. A. No. 70-C-44-H.

332 F.Supp. 1233 (1971)

Walter T. RIPPEN, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Elmer NICKLES, Superintendent, Correctional Field Unit #8, J. D. Cox, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, O. D. Brown, Director, Dept. Welfare and Institutions, W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Director, Dept. of Corrections, D. P. Edwards, Director, Division of Correctional Field Units, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Virginia, Harrisonburg Division.

February 12, 1971.


OPINION AND JUDGMENT

DALTON, Chief Judge.

In this case the plaintiff, an inmate in the Virginia state penal system, complains that he has been discriminated against in work assignments, that he has been denied adequate medical treatment and that he has been placed in solitary confinement arbitrarily by officers of the state penal system. He also complains of various and sundry other procedures in the administration...

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