Hipes v. Braxton

MEMORANDUM OPINION

TURK, District Judge.

MERLE HIPES, a Virginia inmate proceeding pro se, brings this action under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, with jurisdiction vested under 28 U.S.C. § 1343. In his complaint, Hipes alleges that the defendants, officials at Keen Mountain Correctional Center, violated his constitutional rights because they refused to allow him to visit his brother when the brother was on his death bed or to attend his brother’s funeral. Hipes also claims that defendants’ failure to grant his furlough request violated Department Operating Procedure (DOP) 860 and…