Ali v. Barry

The appellant, a prisoner serving time for a felony, alleged in his pro se complaint against officials of the District of Columbia (hereinafter collectively the District) that, following a disturbance at Occoquan, property belonging to him was stolen or destroyed. He claimed, among other things, that as a reprisal against the inmates, prison officials “let correctional officers go into our property and take what they wanted” and that inmates from other facilities, who were called in to clean up the area, were permitted to help themselves to the Occo-quan inmates’ property and throw away the…