Jones v. Colorado Department of Corrections

Opinion by

Judge ROTHENBERG.

Plaintiff, Adam Jones (inmate), appeals the trial court's order dismissing his complaint against defendants, the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Bent County Correctional Facility, the facility's warden, and its head of inmate accounts, seeking to recover funds that were withheld from inmate's prison account and used to satisfy his outstanding restitution obligations. We affirm.

I. Background

Inmate pled guilty to multiple counts of theft and was sentenced in January 1998 to twenty years incarceration with the department. He was ordered to pay…