MASSEY v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY

No. 142, September Term, 2004.

886 A.2d 585 (2005)

389 Md. 496

Richard L. MASSEY, Jr. v. SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Tetrault (Stephen Z. Meehan, Pauline K. White, Tamal A. Banton, Prisoner Rights Information System of Maryland, Inc., Charterstown, on brief), for appellant.

Michael O. Doyle, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


WILNER, J.

The State Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) and the Division of Correction (DOC), a unit within the Department, have adopted certain "directives" that (1) create and define administrative offenses for which DOC inmates are subject to administrative discipline, (2) prescribe the kinds of discipline, including the revocation of earned diminution credits against the inmate's sentence, available upon a finding of guilt, (3) set forth...

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