Young v. Wall

DECISION AND ORDER

SMITH, District Judge.

Citizens have a protected property interest in the wages that are earned from their labor and the interest that accumulates from those wages. However, prisoners maintain diminished property rights, and therefore diminished ownership rights in earnings from labor performed while confined. In this case, Plaintiff Edward Eugene Young (“Plaintiff’ or “Young”), a prisoner at the Adult Correctional Institutions (“ACI”), seeks to hold A.T. Wall (“Defendant” or “Wall”), as the director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (“RIDOC”), liable for an…