Richmond v. State

ANDREASEN, Justice.

Tom Richmond (Richmond) is an inmate in the Iowa State Penitentiary. In November of 1987, a prison disciplinary committee found him guilty of violating prison rules. Consequently, Richmond received ten days disciplinary detention (solitary confinement) and ninety days administrative segregation. Richmond did not, however, lose any good time.

Richmond appealed the decision to the warden, who affirmed. In February 1988, rather than pursuing his administrative remedies by appealing to the director of the Iowa department of corrections, Richmond filed a petition for…