Bennett v. Beard

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Jamal Bennett, an incarcerated individual, appeals, pro se, an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County (trial court) that denied his request to proceed in foma pauperis for the stated reason that Bennett’s complaint was illegible. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Bennett, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution in Greene County (SCI- Greene), filed a complaint in the trial court against the Secretary and numerous employees of the Department of Corrections (Department) and, simultaneously, a petition for leave to proceed in forma pauper-is.…