Singer v. Raemisch

TINDER, Circuit Judge.

After concluding that the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (“D & D”) represented a threat to prison security, officials at Wisconsin’s Waupun Correctional Institution took action to eradicate D & D within the prison’s walls. Inmate Kevin T. Singer found himself on the front lines of Waupun’s war on D & D when prison officials confiscated a large quantity of D & D-related publications from his cell. Singer sought relief from the prison’s new regulations—and the return of his D & D materials—through the prison’s complaint system, a pursuit which ultimately…