Corvelle Beeks Donta T. McKenzie Anthony Quinn Larry Starks, Jr. v. Thomas C. Hundley John Emmett, John Henry Paul W. Grossheim

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

In Hankins v. Finnel, 964 F.2d 853 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 113 S.Ct. 635, 121 L.Ed.2d 566 (1992), an inmate recovered a money judgment against a Missouri prison official under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The State sought to apply the inmate’s damage recovery to pay the costs of his incarceration under the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act. We held that § 1983 preempted such recoupment because it is “inimical to the goals of the federal statute.” Hankins, 964 F.2d at 861. The issue in this case is whether § 1983 also preempts the seizure of an inmate’s § 1983…