Todd v. Graves.

• Position: ACCESS TO COURT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

PLRA -- Prison Litigation Reform Act

Todd v. Graves, 217 F.Supp.2d 958 (S.D.Iowa 2002). An African-American state prisoner brought a [section] 1983 action against past and current prison wardens, alleging that their denial of his requests for furloughs to visit his hospitalized mother and then to attend her funeral constituted racial discrimination. The prisoner sought compensatory and punitive damages for stress and mental anguish...