Fidtler v. Rundle

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

Plaintiff in this pro se action seeks to recover money damages for the “dispossession of a constitutional right.” He argues that the defendant, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pa., has forced him into “involuntary servitude” in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment by requiring him to perform physical labor while a prisoner. Plaintiff also alleges that the work he is required to do in the prison laundry, a “sweat box,” must be performed “without adequate protection for health or injury to the person.”…