Legal Opinion
Thomas Durso v. Charles Rowe
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 1978No. 77-2123PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.
The principal issue raised in this appeal is whether revocation of a prisoner’s work-release status constitutes a deprivation of liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court, in dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, concluded that a state prisoner assigned to a work-release program does not have a constitutionally protected liberty interest in that status and therefore no notice or hearing was required before such status was revoked. For the reasons hereinafter developed, we…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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