Legal Opinion
Ahmad Yusuf Ali v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 11, 2001No. 00-10777PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal leads us to reiterate that inmates sentenced to incarceration cannot state a viable Thirteenth Amendment claim if the prison system requires them to work. The district court’s deci sion denying relief to appellant Ali is thus affirmed.
Ali’s § 1983 claim arises from a hiatus in Texas law, whose statutes did not specifically require inmates to work between 1989 and 1995, 1 and from some inartful language in one of this court’s opinions. Ah began serving a 13-year sentence after his 1994 conviction for robbery. He alleges that because of the statutory…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Kevin Watson and Raymond Wayne Thrash v. Odom Graves, Darryl Jarreau, Marilyn Jarreau, and Abe RossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Robert Draper v. B. J. Rhay, as Superintendent of Washington State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Samuel Lee Murray, III v. Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Harry Lee Wendt v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- Valley A. Plaisance, Sr., Plaintiff-Apellant v. C. Paul Phelps, Secretary, Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by19 opinions
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