Wilson-El v. Finnan

ORDER

In August 2004, a prison disciplinary board found Indiana inmate Shavaughn Wilson-El guilty of disorderly conduct. Two prison officers testified that he used obscene language and kicked his cell door while complaining about the prison food. Wilson-El maintained that his cell mate was the one who actually kicked the door, but the cell mate signed a statement corroborating the officers’ testimony and blaming Wilson-El. The prison punished Wilson-El with a suspended deprivation of 180 days of earned good-time credit, a demotion to a lower credit-earning class, and a written reprimand. After…