Legal Opinion
Jerry R. Skelton v. Pri-Cor, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1991No. 90-5290PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff-appellant Jerry R. Skelton appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Pri-Cor, Inc., dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prisoner civil rights action. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
I
On June 15, 1989, Skelton pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee to a charge of escaping federal custody and was incarcerated at the Greene County Detention Center (“the Center”) while, awaiting sentencing. Pri-Cor, Inc. (“Pri-Cor”) is a private corporation which operates the Center pursuant to a contract…
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