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SUPERINTENDENT v. HILL

No. 84-438.

472 U.S. 445 (1985)

SUPERINTENDENT, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AT WALPOLE v. HILL ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 17, 1985

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara A. H. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, and Martin E. Levin, Assistant Attorney General.

Jamie Ann Sabino, by appointment of the Court, 469 U.S. 1084, argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief was Richard B. Klibaner.*

JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court.

Massachusetts inmates who comply with prison rules can accumulate good time credits that reduce the term of imprisonment. Mass. Gen. Laws Ann., ch. 127, § 129 (West 1974). Such credits may be lost "if a prisoner violates any rule of his place of confinement." Ibid. The question presented is whether revocation of an inmate's good time credits violates the Due...

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