Legal Opinion
Tenny v. Blagojevich
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 2011No. 10-3075, 10-3076, 10-3077, 10-3078, 10-3106, 10-3140, 10-3169PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Illinois has a statutory cap on the price prison commissaries can charge inmates for any item purchased. The plaintiffs in these consolidated cases are seven inmates incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. They sued current and former officials in the Illinois Department of Corrections, and the former Governor, for marking up the price of commissary goods beyond that cap. In each case, the district court screened the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A and dismissed the case for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. The…
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