Hezile Shabazz Earl v. Larry Norris, Warden R.K. Noggles Mr. Byus, Disciplinary Hearing Officers, Maximum Security Unit, Tucker, Arkansas

Appellant Hezile Shabazz Earl, an inmate in the Arkansas Department of Correction, filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that he was deprived of liberty without due process when prison officials kept him in punitive isolation for six days after the disciplinary sentence he was serving was reversed. The magistrate 1 granted the prison officials’ motion for summary judgment, on the ground that the negligence of officials in failing to release Earl from punitive confinement in a timely manner did not implicate the due process clause of the Constitution. We affirm.

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