Legal Opinion
Alex Pearson, Cross-Appellee v. George C. Welborn, Warden and Kristen Kwasniewski
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 8, 2006No. 05-1068, 05-1241PublishedCited by 245 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Convicted murderer Alex Pearson was just two days away from being transferred out of Tamms Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois, when he received a disciplinary ticket for sexual misconduct. That ticket set his transfer from Tamms to a less restrictive prison back by more than a year. Alleging that the ticket was trumped-up to block his transfer from Tamms, Pearson sued Charles Hinsley, who was then a warden at Tamms, Kristen Kwasniewski 1 , a social worker who wrote the ticket, George Wel-born, also a warden at Tamms, Eric Hal-lan, a…
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