Legal Opinion
Winsett v. McGinnes
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 24, 1980No. 78-1344PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to determine whether certain Delaware prison officials violated an inmate’s constitutional rights when, because of their fear of adverse public reaction and legislative reprisals against the prison system, they denied his applications for work release.
Following the denial of his work release applications, the inmate, Thomas H. Win-sett, brought a civil rights action in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976) and the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution. In this…
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