Legal Opinion
W. Foster Sellers v. United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 16, 1990No. 88-2197PublishedCited by 198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
When the Bureau of Prisons “locked down” the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, in 1983, it restricted the volume of personal materials inmates could keep in their cells. It offered to store the excess or send it to someone of the inmate’s choice. W. Foster Sellers initially declined to designate a recipient, so guards put at least five boxes of his goods in storage. Later he designated Judge Fairchild of this court as their recipient, which the guards took as a joke and refused to implement. More than a year after the lockdown, with Sellers still not cooperating,…
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