WHITEHORN v. HARRELSON

No. 83-7615.

758 F.2d 1416 (1985)

Bruce Talmadge WHITEHORN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.L. HARRELSON; Mr. Green; D. Foster, E. Potts, Counselors, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Delores R. Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jack M. Curtis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before HILL and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.


WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises for the first time in the Eleventh Circuit the issue whether a lawfully confined prisoner has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in his continued participation in the Alabama work release program. The district court, apparently reluctantly,1 granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, employees of the Alabama Department of Corrections...

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