DuPont v. Wyzanski

INTRODUCTION

The plaintiff, Michael Kevin DuPont (“DuPont”), is a prisoner currently incarcerated at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole. In 1993, the Department of Corrections (“DOC”)2 sentenced DuPont to an 18-month term in the Departmental Disciplinary Unit (“DDU”) after DuPont committed a serious violation of prison rules.3 DuPont then filed this suit for declaratory and monetary relief, claiming that his confinement violated various portions of state and federal law. Specifically, DuPont claims that because the DDU is used as a sanction for male inmates only, the DOC’s actions violated the Code…