Legal Opinion
Wendell Shane MacKey v. Dennis Dyke, Assistant Deputy Director of the Bureau of Correctional Facilities, Michigan Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1994No. 93-1891PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether Michigan prison officials violated an inmate’s due process rights by failing to return the inmate promptly to the general prison population from administrative segregation after determining that he was no longer subject to segregation. The district court held that Michigan prison rules and regulations do not create a liberty interest in an inmate’s right to release from segregation that is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court also held that even if the inmate had such a liberty…
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