Allen H. Beck, and Arnulfo Cantu and Jimmy Mark Appleman v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

Five of the original prisoner-plaintiffs in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint appeal the dismissal of the action as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). The appeals of three were dismissed for want of prosecution. We affirm in part and reverse in part and remand.

Background

Jimmy Mark Appleman, Arnulfo Cantu, Joe Feijoo, Ricardo Flores, Juan Franco, and eight other inmates confined to administrative segregation in the “Retrieve Unit” of the Texas Department of Corrections at Angleton, Texas, filed the instant § 1983 complaint, claiming myriad constitutional violations. The…