Legal Opinion
Austin v. Lehman
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 6, 1995No. Civ. A. 93-6163PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
ANITA B. BRODY, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a pro se prisoner, commenced this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleges that his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution were violated when officials at the State Correctional Institution (“SCI”) at Frackville denied him his bi-weekly allotment of free cigarettes and denied him his right to purchase cigarettes for a six week period of his confinement in disciplinary custody there. Named as Defendants are the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, the Superintendent at SCI…
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