Rebecca Riker v. Bruce Lemmon

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

While working as an employee of a contractor at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Rebecca Riker engaged in a romantic relationship with inmate Paul Vest. When the relationship became known, her employment ended. She later requested that she be allowed to visit Vest, but prison officials denied those requests as forbidden by the institution’s inmate visitation policy. Ms. Riker and Vest later submitted an application to marry, which prison officials also denied.

Ms. Riker then brought this action against, several individual officials of the Indiana Department of…