Willie Joihner v. Stephen L. McEvers Captain Hockaday, and M. Spinner Jones

PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant Willie Joihner appeals the grant of summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against officials at Logan Correctional Center where he is incarcerated. The district court held that the officials violated no protectible liberty interest when they denied Joihner’s request to be transferred to a work camp.

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In August 1986, Joihner requested he be assigned to the Hanna City work camp. This assignment would provide Joihner with higher pay and better living conditions than he had at Logan. In the parties’ stipulation of uncontested facts, it…