Barnes v. State Department of Corrections

George Barnes, a state prison inmate, appeals from a summary judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Montgomery County on. his petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondents, the Alabama Department of Corrections (“the Department”) and Correctional Medical Services (“CMS”), to transport him to a non-correctional physician for treatment. We affirm.

Barnes filed this action in July 1998. His complaint alleges that from July 1995 to May 1997 he was required to use lime solvent in his assigned institutional work and without breathing protection; that the health-care unit in his…