Bentley v. Department of Corrections

Plaintiff and intervening plaintiff are inmates of the State Prison of Southern Michigan. They sought a declaratory judgment on *266the issue of their institutional classification as homosexual predators. Such a classification restricts plaintiffs from medium or minimum security facilities and limits plaintiffs to close security facilities.

After determining that there was little factual support for this classification for either plaintiff or intervening plaintiff, the trial court, on October 15, 1986, and March 3, 1987, respectively, granted both plaintiffs’ motions for summary disposition and…