Tony A. Kenyon v. Warden Dooley

South Dakota inmate Tony Kenyon brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action claiming that (1) defendants failed to protect him •from injury by dangerous equipment at the prison’s cabinet shop, resulting in a serious injury to his fingers, and (2) after the injury defendants provided inadequate aftercare. The district court 1 granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment, and this appeal followed.

Kenyon argues that the court erred in dismissing, before service of process, his claim that prison overcrowding was partially responsible for his injury. We conclude that the court properly dismissed the…