James Manley v. Keith Butts

ORDER

A hearing officer found that inmate James Manley had possessed methamphetamine at New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana. Manley was stripped of 90 days’ good-time credit, demoted to a lower credit-earning class, and temporarily denied commissary and phone privileges. He challenged these sanctions by petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, which the district court denied. Manley appeals that decision. We affirm the judgment.

Manley was housed in segregation when he requested that prison staff retrieve religious items from his property box, which was stored…