United States Eleventh Circuit

Plaintiff-inmate's challenge that defendant's policy, which prohibits inmates from receiving the interest from work release wages, constitutes an unlawful taking, is dismissed where Alabama has not created a property interest for its inmates in the interest that accrues on their accounts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2004
• Published 08/18/2004

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before BLACK and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and STROM , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donald A. Chapman, Decatur, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin Christopher Newsom, Montgomery, AL, Andrew Weldon Redd, AL Dept. of Corrections, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.