Brooks v. Wainwright

OPINION AND ORDER

CHARLES R. SCOTT, Senior District Judge.

I. FACTS

This case is an off-shoot of North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union, Inc. v. Jones, 409 F.Supp. 937 (E.D.N.C.1976), rev’d, - U.S. -, 97 S.Ct. 2532, 53 L.Ed.2d 629 (1977). Plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction and defendant requested dismissal on the merits. Both motions, along with numerous other procedural motions, 1 are pending.

Plaintiff was an inmate at Florida State Prison (‘FSP’) when he commenced this action. He first became an inmate of the State of Florida in 1964. In 1971 he walked away from a Florida,…