RYAN v. SARGENT

No. 91-3068.

969 F.2d 638 (1992)

Craig M. RYAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Willis SARGENT, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Allison, Little Rock, Ark., argued, for plaintiff-appellant.

Brad Newman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendant-appellee.

Before ARNOLD, Chief Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Craig M. Ryan appeals from a summary judgment the district court entered against him on his action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988). Ryan, an inmate at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, was assigned to administrative segregation after the warden, Willis Sargent, received a letter, based on a confidential informant inmate's information, detailing Ryan's plans to escape from prison. Ryan argues that the...

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