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GLOVER v. ALABAMA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 83-7122.

734 F.2d 691 (1984)

Willie James GLOVER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 18, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack M. Curtis, Montgomery, Ala., for Towns.

Bobby N. Bright, Gen. Counsel, Ala. Dept. of Corrections, Montgomery, Ala., for State of Ala./Dept. of Corrections.

Frank Wilson, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, RONEY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

In November of 1978 plaintiff, Willie James Glover, a prisoner in Alabama's Draper Correctional Center was stabbed by a fellow inmate, Hardy Sims. The stabbing occurred the day after James Towns, a prison official, stated to a group of inmates that Glover's life was worth only five or six packs of cigarettes. Glover brought a 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 action against the Alabama Board of Corrections and several other defendants including James Towns...

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