Legal Opinion
Baptist v. Lane
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 15, 1989No. Nos. 89 C 1201, 89 C 1765Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
SHADUR, District Judge.
On December 31, 1988 an inmate walked away from the minimum security farm at Stateville Correctional Center (“State-ville”), which is (apart from the farm) a maximum security prison. Six days later prison officials transferred all “C number” inmates1 at the farm back into the general population within the Stateville walls.
Elijah Baptist (“Baptist”) and Charles Criss (“Criss”) were among the inmates removed from the farm. Alleging the transfers violated their right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, Baptist and Criss bring separate…
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