Heft v. Parker

MEMORANDUM

FOLLMER, District Judge.

Gerald Edwin Heft, a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has submitted, in forma pauperis, a document entitled “Petition to Enjoin Cruel and Unusual Punishment.” In the petition, Heft requests this Court to enjoin Warden Parker “from inflicting upon petitioner a punitive and insufficient diet,” imposed on him while in a “punishment cell.”

Petitioner alleges that while he was on punitive status he “was so inadequately fed that, as near as can be estimated petitioner lost weight in the amount of twenty pounds.” He claims that…