Gordon v. Oregon State Penitentiary

This was a direct appeal to the Court of Appeals from an order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Oregon State Penitentiary pursuant to ORS 421.195 and 183.482(8). Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violation of Major Rule No. 10, disobedience of an order, and was given nine days’ solitary confinement as a penalty therefor.

The occurrence arose out of a dispute concerning the food petitioner was served as he was going through the food line. He was given what he considered an inadequate portion of meat and he dropped out of line to complain to the steward. He was charged with…