Legal Opinion
Temple v. Ellerthorpe
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided May 23, 1984No. Civ. A. 84-0194 SPublishedCited by 361 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SELYA, District Judge.
This is an action brought pro se by William H. Temple, an inmate at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI), Cranston, Rhode Island, a state penal facility, challenging his classification and the conditions of his confinement at the ACI. The defendants are officials of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections having supervisory authority over the ACI and those enrolled therein. While the complaint is silent as to its jurisdictional bases, the allegations purport to invoke, by implication, the plaintiff’s civil rights, viz., the fifth, sixth, eighth…
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