Williams v. Bass

RONEY, Circuit Judge.

When an inmate at the Nashville Community Service Center (“NCSC”), Larry Williams, was in a single car accident while out of the facility on an eight-hour pass, the prison disciplinary board found him guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol and transferred him from minimum security status to a medium security facility. He sued various officials connected to the Tennessee prison system under section 1983 seeking declaratory and monetary relief on the ground they violated his due process rights.

The district court, adopting the magistrate judge’s recommendation,…