James Barksdale v. Gayle M. Franzen and John B. Groves

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff James Barksdale, an inmate incarcerated in an Illinois prison, brought this pro se action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the Illinois Department of Corrections violated his constitutional rights when it failed to subtract from his prison term the appropriate number of days of good time credit that he is allegedly entitled to under Illinois law. Barksdale, sentenced in 1973 to a term of 75 to 150 years, contends that Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 38 § 1003-6-3 (1978) compels the Department of Corrections 1 to reduce his prison term not only on the “statutory and…