Legal Opinion
Booker-El v. Superintendent, Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 9, 2012No. 10-1490PublishedCited by 1,281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Sammie L. Booker-El, an inmate incarcerated in Indiana State Prison, alleges that prison officials misappropriated funds intended by statute to be used for the inmates’ benefit without due process of law. The district court dismissed BookerEl’s complaint, finding that he did not have a protected property interest in the funds. We affirm.
I. Background
As required by state law, Indiana State Prison maintains an inmates’ recreation fund. See Ind.Code § 4-24-6-6(a)(3). The inmates’ recreation fund was designed to accrue money from sources outside of the state budget, such as…
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