Legal Opinion
Pitts v. Kee
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided April 1, 1981No. Civ. A. 79-430PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STAPLETON, District Judge.
This is a civil rights action in which Courtland Pitts, a prisoner at the Delaware Correctional Center (“DCC” or “the institution”), challenges several aspects of his confinement to the isolation section of the institution in August of 1979. He asserts that his transfer to that section and the subsequent failure of prison authorities to afford him a hearing within a reasonable time after that transfer violated his right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment; he further alleges that the conditions of solitary confinement during the period he was…
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