Dennis P. Glick v. Willis Sargent, Warden, and Officer Foote, Employee, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction

Dennis Glick is an inmate in the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction. During a shakedown of Glick’s cell on February 22, 1982, Corrections Officer Foote found a plexiglass cell key outside the cell window. Since there was a hole in the cell window, Officer Foote deduced that • the key had been cut from the window glass. Foote also found a piece of iron from Glick’s bed outside the window. He charged Glick with prison rule violations and instituted a major disciplinary proceeding against him. Glick’s defense at the disciplinary hearing was that he was unaware of the key’s…