Robert Wentworth, on Behalf of Himself and All Others So Confined v. Herman Solem, Acting Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary

Robert Wentworth, an inmate at the South Dakota State Penitentiary at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, filed a complaint against state prison officials alleging various illegalities in the operation of prison industries.

The complaint alleged that Wentworth was a former convict-employee of the prison bookbinding shop; that the defendants had allowed goods manufactured by convicts in the prison bookbindery to be transported in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1761; 1 that the defendants had failed to clearly mark the goods so transported as being manufactured by convicts, in violation…