MADEWELL v. ROBERTS

No. 89-1671.

909 F.2d 1203 (1990)

Jack MADEWELL, James Keith Sampson, Russell McKinnon, George A. Wilson, Richard S. Brasher, Jr., Anthony Landis, James C. Walters, Cliston Ray Swanson, Odell Hampton, Zakee Kaleem Abdullah, Eddie Bo Lawshea, Raymond Proffitt, Earnest Kisling, Freddie Robinson, James Phelps, Winston Holloway, Appellant, v. Bobby ROBERTS, Chairman; James Mason; Rev. Hezekih Steward, Jr., David McClinton; Morris Dreher; Sheriff Floyd Johnson; Dr. Nancy Talbert, Board Members, Arkansas Department of Correction; A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction; Larry Norris, Warden; Robert D. Perry, Chief Security Officer, Maximum Security Unit; George Brewer, Classification Administration, Arkansas Department of Correction; Leonard Evans, Classification Officer, Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick R. Kirby, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

R.B. Friedlander, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before McMILLIAN and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Winston Holloway and fifteen other inmates at the Maximum Security Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction requested class certification and sought damages and declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They alleged that defendant prison officials and members of the Board of Correction, named in their individual and official capacities, violated plaintiffs' rights to due process and equal protection, and subjected...

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