McWHORTER v. JONES

Civ. No. 3-83-500.

573 F.Supp. 33 (1983)

Robert McWHORTER v. Warden Otie JONES and Corporal Douglas Swicegood.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, N.D.

September 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert McWhorter, pro se.

Kimberly J. Dean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for Tennessee.


MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

This is a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the Tennessee Department of Corrections' (TDOC) policy prohibiting the transfer of property between inmates is not uniformly applied throughout the prison system and that property control procedures as applied to plaintiff violate due process guaranties of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution. Plaintiff states that because he could not prove ownership...

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