Ashley v. Snyder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding prison regulations were never intended to confer rights on inmates or serve as a basis for constitutional claims
• explaining that Unified Code of Corrections was “designed to provide guidance to prison officials in the administration of prisons,” not to confer rights on inmates
• stating that the Illinois Administrative Code “creates no more rights for inmates than those which are constitutionally required”
• holding prison regulations were never intended to confer rights on inmates or serve as a basis for constitutional claims
• explaining that Unified Code of Corrections was “designed to provide guidance to prison officials in the administration of prisons,” not to confer rights on inmates
• where this court wrote that a prisoner’s most important right was “the right to be free from violence and terror at the hands of other inmates”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).