WATKINS v. PA. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

No. 807 C.D. 2018.

196 A.3d 272 (2018)

Gerald WATKINS, Appellant v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Secretary, John Wetzel, Superintendent Robert Gilmore, et al.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Watkins, pro se.

Sean A. Kirkpatrick , Senior Deputy Attorney General, Harrisburg, for appellees.

BEFORE: HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROBSON, Judge, HONORABLE PATRICIA A. McCULLOUGH, Judge, HONORABLE JAMES GARDNER COLINS, Senior Judge.


This matter is an appeal filed by Gerald Watkins (Plaintiff), pro se, from an order of the Greene County Court of Common Pleas (trial court) dismissing his civil damages action sua sponte pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).1 For the reasons set forth below...

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