Inmates of Orient Correctional Institute v. Ohio State Adult Parole Authority

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction in a federal civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a group of parole-eligible Ohio prison inmates.

Each of the plaintiff inmates received a hearing before a board of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority. In each instance the hearing resulted in a decision to grant parole “on” or at some indeterminate time “after” a specified date (commonly called the “on or after date”), subject to approval of an acceptable out-of-prison placement plan by the Authority’s Parole Supervision Section.

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