WENTWORTH v. SOLEM

No. 76-1717.

548 F.2d 773 (1977)

Robert WENTWORTH, on behalf of himself and all others so confined, Appellant, v. Herman SOLEM, acting Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Wentworth, pro se.

William J. Janklow, Atty. Gen., and Doyle D. Estes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, S.D., on brief for appellees.

Before LAY, BRIGHT and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Robert Wentworth, an inmate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, filed a complaint against state prison officials alleging various illegalities in the operation of prison industries.

The complaint alleged that Wentworth was a former convict-employee of the prison bookbinding shop; that the defendants had allowed goods manufactured by convicts in the prison bookbindery to be transported in interstate commerce, in...

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