Joseph Hosna v. Michael Groose

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Hosna, Donald Miller, Kelly Neal, Max D. Miller, and Robert Arnold (the Inmates) are prisoners housed in Missouri’s Jefferson City Correctional Center’s (JCCC) administrative segregation unit. 1 They brought separate 42 U.S.C. § 1983 actions against JCCC officials, seeking damages and injunctive relief for alleged equal protection violations because they enjoyed fewer privileges than inmates housed in protective custody. The district court ’ consolidated the cases and denied damages, but granted partial injunctive relief. JCCC officials appeal the district court’s…