Jones v. Lane

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 1

SHADUR, District Judge.

Gus Jones (“Jones”) sues Director Michael Lane (“Lane”) of the Illinois Department of Corrections (the “Department”), alleging' Lane violated the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) when he denied Jones placement in a work release program while Jones was incarcerated at the East Moline Correctional Center (“East Moline”). 2 Jones’s Amended Complaint (the “Complaint”) now advances three claims: 3

1. Count I says Lane was arbitrary and capricious in basing his decision on the length of Jones’s sentence and therefore…