Lawrence H. Kent v. Perry Johnson and Dale Foltz

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff appeals the district court’s dismissal of his suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) for allegedly unconstitutional prison conditions in violation of the first, fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendments. For the reasons set forth below, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings.

Plaintiff-appellant is incarcerated at the State Prison for Southern Michigan (“prison”). In his pro se complaint, he alleged that the defendants-appellees’ policy and practice of according female prison guards full and…