Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Fuchs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 10, 2008No. 07-1384PublishedCited by 641 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Wisconsin inmate Reggie Townsend filed a civil-rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Larry Fuchs, Security Director at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution, and Sergeant Jerry Alen, a correctional officer in the segregation unit at the prison. Townsend, who was held at New Lisbon at all times pertinent to this appeal, claimed that Fuchs violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process by placing him, for 59 days, in administrative segregation — or, as it is known within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDOC), temporary lock-up (TLU). See Wis.…
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