Gregory Howard v. Herbert Grinage

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Gregory Howard, an inmate at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (SPSM), originally brought this procedural due process case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging a deprivation of a liberty interest for being confined to protective segregation and to increased security confinement without administrative hearings or review. In Howard v. Grinage, 6 F.3d 410 (6th Cir.1993) (Howard I), this court found that plaintiff had asserted a constitutionally protected liberty interest and remanded the case to the district court for a determination of whether defendants’ conduct…