Jerry White v. L. B. Sullivan, Commissioner of Alabama Prison System

Jerry White, an Alabama State prisoner incarcerated in the Mt. Meigs Medical and Diagnostic Center, has applied to this Court for leave to appeal in forma pauperis 1 from the district court’s summary dismissal of a Civil Rights complaint 2 filed by him. We grant the motion and summarily affirm in part and summarily vacate and remand in part. 3

In the action filed below, White sought damages and relief in the nature of injunction on behalf of himself and twenty-six prisoners in solitary confinement arising out of the prison officials’ refusal to allow the solitarily confined prisoners to…