Herbert Whitlock, Stanley Wrice, and Bennie Lopez v. Adrienne Johnson, Melvin Allen, and George Detella

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Prisoners faced with the revocation of good-time credits have a qualified right to call witnesses in their defense. See Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974). Officials at Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center contend that this right is satisfied when, in lieu of actually bringing an inmate’s requested witnesses to testify at the revocation hearing, officials instead interview the proposed witnesses and present the prison’s disciplinary committee with an unsworn report summarizing the witnesses’ testimony. The district court held that…