Kenneth R. Jennings v. George Lombardi Vernon Heath Dora Schriro

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Kenneth Jennings, a Missouri inmate incarcerated in Arkansas, appeals the district court’s 1 order granting summary judgment against him on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that defendants, Missouri prison officials, violated his Fourteenth Amendment rights by withholding prison wages for work he performed in Arkansas. We affirm.

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Jennings was convicted in a jury trial in Missouri state court for second degree murder on November 4, 1983, and he received a thirty-year sentence. Because he is a former corrections officer at the Missouri State Penitentiary, Jennings requested an…