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WILLIAMS v. THOMPSON

No. 16470.

111 Ill. App.3d 145 (1982)

443 N.E.2d 809

JEROME WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JAMES THOMPSON, Governor, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed December 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Chicago, and Donald D. Bernardi, State's Attorney, of Pontiac (Russell C. Grimes, Jr., and Robert P. Coyne, Assistant Attorneys General, of counsel), for appellants.

Daniel D. Yuhas and Jane Raley, both of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellees.

Judgment reversed.

JUSTICE MILLS delivered the opinion of the court:

Do penal inmates have a protected right to continue training in a program that the proper State authorities determine to abolish?

We hold they do not.

We reverse.

Plaintiffs here are inmates of the Pontiac Correctional Center (Pontiac). They had all been assigned for various lengths of time to duty in...

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