Kenneth Eugene McEachern v. J. D. Henderson, Warden, U. S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga.

BELL, Circuit Judge:

The difficulty giving rise to the appeal in this case rests largely in the practice of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Georgia of treating as complaints letters from prisoners confined in the federal maximum security prison in Atlanta. See Freeley v. United States, 5 Cir., 1972, 465 F.2d 1403. This entire ease stems from a single handwritten letter from petitioner, a federal prisoner, addressed to a federal district court judge. Over a month and a half after its receipt it was entered in the clerk’s office as a formal complaint. Petitioner’s…