Bannister v. United States Parole Commission

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________ ) MARKIST BANNISTER, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. 18-cv-01397 (APM) ) UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION, ) et al., ) ) Defendants. ) _________________________________________ ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION Defendant United States Parole Commission has denied parole multiple times to Plaintiff Markist Bannister, a federal prisoner who suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia. The most recent denial of parole occurred in 2017. Plaintiff alleges that, for years, the…