Banks v. Sheahan

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HART, District Judge.

Pro se plaintiff Randy Banks, a/k/a Hiram Abiff,1 claims that defendants Michael Sheah-an, the Sheriff of Cook County, and J.W. Fairman, the director of the Cook County Jail, deprived him of his constitutional right of access to court while he was incarcerated *233at the Cook County Jail.2 Plaintiff claims that he informed Sheahan and Fairman that he had not been permitted to take his legal papers when he was transferred to an Indiana prison and requested their assistance in forwarding the papers, but they failed to take any action. Plaintiff also…