Also, inmates who threaten the security or orderly running of the institution may be segregated.ĪDC's Ad.
He Institutional Classification Committee ․ may place an inmate in administrative segregation if his/her continued presence in the general population poses a serious threat to life, property, self, staff, or other inmates. Seg., ADC maintained essentially the same written policy on the administration of Ad. 2 In contrast, Williams's attacker served only 56 days in Ad. Seg.-ostensibly for his own protection-where he ultimately remained continuously, and without interruption, for nearly 14 years until March 13, 2009. In December 1995, immediately following this attack, ADC officials placed Williams in Ad. Prison officials believed that this attack stemmed from Williams's suspected drug “trafficking and trading” activities at Tucker Max, and that the altercation may even have resulted from a “drug deal gone bad.” In December 1995, a fellow inmate attacked and injured Williams while Williams was performing his assigned duties in Tucker Max's kitchen. Subsequently, in July 1983, the ADC released Williams into the general population at the Tucker Maximum Security Unit (“Tucker Max”), where he continued serving his life sentence without major incident until 1995. In 1982, just one year after commencing his prison sentence, Williams was convicted of murdering a fellow inmate and thereafter served 30 days in punitive segregation and one and one-half years in Ad. In 1981, Williams began serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole following his conviction for murder. We affirm the remainder of the district court's disposition.Ī. Williams's Institutional History with ADC For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand the district court's nominal-damages award as improperly computed. Williams cross-appeals, urging that the district court erred in failing to find the fifth defendant liable and in denying Williams compensatory and punitive damages. review hearings and its nominal-damages computation. Presently, the defendants appeal the district court's findings that they conducted meaningless Ad. Seg.-but denied Williams's prayer for punitive damages. Consequently, the district court awarded Williams $4,846 in nominal damages-$1 for every day that Williams lived in Ad.
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The district court held a bench trial on the matter and found that four of the five defendants had in fact denied Williams due process by conducting meaningless Ad.
review policies accorded Williams all the process that he was constitutionally due, but we remanded the case for a fact determination of whether the defendants-five prison officials-conducted Williams's review hearings in a meaningful manner.
We further concluded that ADC's written Ad. We previously reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment against Williams, concluding that Williams had asserted a constitutionally protected liberty interest. Constitution because the periodic reviews of his detention were not meaningful. Seg.”) 1 violated his procedural due-process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. § 1983, alleging, inter alia, that his approximately 14–year detention in administrative segregation (“Ad. Michael Scott Moore, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellee/cross-appellant.ĭavid Williams, an inmate in the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC), filed the instant lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Cryer, AAG, on the brief, Little Rock, AR, for appellant/cross-appellee. Decided: December 02, 2011īefore LOKEN, SMITH, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges. Ray HOBBS, Chief Deputy Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Defendant, Greg Harmon, Warden, East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC Marvin Evans, Jr., Warden, Tucker Unit, ADC Grant Harris, Warden, Varner Unit, ADC Tommy James, Jr., Assistant Warden, Maximum Security Unit, ADC Tim Moncrief, Assistant Warden, Varner Unit, ADC, Defendants–Appellants/Cross–Appellees. United States Court of Appeals,Eighth Circuit.ĭavid WILLIAMS, Plaintiff–Appellee/Cross–Appellant, v.
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