Legal Opinion
Robert Westefer v. Michael Neal
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 6, 2012No. 10-2957PublishedCited by 687 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The Closed Maximum Security Unit at Illinois’s Tamms Correctional Center is a high-security “supermax” prison. In a previous appeal by several plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of inmates incarcerated at Tamms, we reversed the dismissal of a due-process claim challenging the procedures by which the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”) assigns inmates to the prison. Westefer v. Snyder, 422 F.3d 570, 585-90 (7th Cir.2005). While the case was awaiting trial on remand, IDOC developed a “Ten-Point Plan for Tamms,” significantly revising the procedures for…
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