Preness Crusoe v. Richard W. Derobertis

VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.

This appeal comes to us from the district court 1 which denied Appellant, Preness Crusoe, injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 relating to the exclusion of a paraprofessional employed by Appellant’s counsel from the prison in which Appellant is incarcerated.

Appellant is an inmate at the Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois. State-ville is a maximum security institution. The para-professional excluded from the prison was Charles McClindon, a former inmate at Stateville.

On appeal Appellant raises the following issue:

1. Whether a prison warden may,…