Legal Opinion
David Allen Sheldon v. Thomas E. Hundley Grabowski, Sued as Major Grabowski Charles Harper
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 14, 1996No. 95-2057SIPublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
David Allen Sheldon, an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP), mailed a letter to an inmate-produced publication at another prison. In the letter’s postscript, Sheldon had written, “We have your [expletive] warden Thomas E. Hundley, ... you could have kept him.” After prison officials seized the letter, Sheldon was found guilty of violating an ISP rule against verbal abuse. As a result, Sheldon received fifteen days of disciplinary detention and lost sixteen days of good conduct time.
Sheldon did not challenge the disciplinary action in any state or federal proceeding…
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