Billy Hx. Boulware v. J. J. Parker, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

OPINION OF THE COURT

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant Boulware, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, instituted a civil action against the prison’s Warden seeking damages of $2,000,000. 1 In his Complaint he alleged that “following an incident” in the Penitentiary on February 1, 1970, he, along with 18 fellow Black Muslim prispners, was segregated from the general ¡prison population until February 13, 1970; he has since that time been placed in a single cell; his health has been impaired by such confinement and for the further reasons that he…