A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania inmate seeking a salary for his time behind bars.

Kentlin Hopkins landed in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility after allegedly exposing himself to a woman at the Luzerne County Adult Probation and Parole Department. Hopkins sued the district attorney's office, charging that it put his life in danger by identifying him as a possible witness against several shooting suspects. According to news reports, Hopkins alleged he was in “immediate danger” and that as a result he should be paid $150 per day, retroactive to his date of incarceration -- November 10, 2014.

U.S. District Judge Richard P. Conaboy recently dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous, saying the complaint is “based on an indisputably meritless legal theory.”

—Source:  citizensvoice.com