Brown, A., Aplt. v. Wetzel, J.

DISSENTING STATEMENT

JUSTICE WECHT

I respectfully dissent.

As a prisoner, Alton D. Brown necessarily has lost those privileges of citizenship that are fundamentally incompatible with his incarceration. Nonetheless, inmates detain certain inalienáble rights! including the right to dué process and thé right to the equal protection of our laws. See Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 523, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984) (noting that prisoners retain “those rights not fundamentally inconsistent with imprisonment itself or incompatible with the objectives of incarceration,” including the rights to…