Sherman Bickham v. Joseph Cannon

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Sherman Bickham brought this civil rights action against the warden and other officials of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Stateville Branch, where he is a prisoner. He challenges the validity of the “customary procedure” in that prison by which prisoners being held on the minimum security hon- or farm are immediately removed from the farm and held in administrative isolation pending a disciplinary hearing in all cases in which a violation report is filed charging unauthorized possession of personal property. He contends that such removal and isolation…