POSNER, Chief Judge.
An inmate of an Indiana state prison, Kevin Thomas, filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that his keepers had inflicted a cruel and unusual punishment upon him by refusing to permit him to attend his mother's funeral. He appeals from the judgment of the district court dismissing his suit on the ground that the complaint failed to state a claim. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6).
According to the complaint, the allegations of which...
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