Kurt B. Knight, William C. Andrews v. William Armontrout

HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Kurt B. Knight and William Andrews, Missouri state prisoners, appeal pro se from the district court’s order granting ap-pellee’s prison officials summary judgment in appellants’ 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Appellants claim their due process and eighth amendment rights were violated when they were retained in punitive detention for thirteen days beyond their ten-day sentence for a conduct violation. We affirm.

On March 12, 1986, appellants, who shared a cell at the Missouri State Penitentiary for Men, each were charged with a conduct violation when a knife-type weapon…