Guy McEachin v. Michael McGuinnis Superintendent, W.E. Wilcox, Acting Dep. Supt. Of Security, Southport, J. Irizarry, Food Service Administrator

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

In January 2002, pro se plaintiff-appellant Guy McEachin (“McEachin” or “plaintiff’), then an inmate at the Southport Correctional Facility in Pine City, New York (“Southport”), filed suit against various Southport officials in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. In his complaint, which was accompanied by a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”), McEachin claimed that the defendants, Superintendent Michael McGuinnis (“McGuinnis”), Deputy Superintendent of Security W.E. Wilcox (‘Wilcox”), and Food Service Administrator J.…