Legal Opinion
Hensley v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1988No. 86-5547PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment and an award of injunctive relief in favor of prison inmates who brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action against Kentucky correction officials. The prisoners complain that the manner in which prison disciplinary hearings were conducted, in which they lost good time credits, did not afford them procedural due process. The prisoners’ principal complaint is that their request to know the substance of the evidence that was considered by the committee in support of the charges against the prisoners, and the identity of the…
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