United States Fourth Circuit

State prisoners do not enjoy constitutionally protected property interest in wages or interest earned from work programs advancing the state's important interest in managing its inmate population and pursuing rehabilitation efforts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/06/2000
• Published 12/06/2000

Judges

• Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Neal Lawrence Walters, University of Virginia School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, VA, for Appellant. Mark Ralph Davis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Terry McGarrity, Third Year Law Student, University of Virginia School of law Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, VA, for Appellant. Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellees.