Fowler v. Black

WADDILL, Commissioner.

While serving a sentence in the Kentucky State Reformatory Charles Fowler, Jr., violated certain regulations of that institution and was penalized under the provisions of KRS 197.045. This penalty consisted of the revocation of certain accumu•lated credit on his sentence and the denial of the privilege of earning further credit for a specific period.

Fowler brought this action in the Lyon Circuit Court seeking a judgment directing appellee to rescind the aforementioned penalty, contending, in effect, that he had been deprived of his statutory rights “without due process…