Johnson v. Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services

How courts have described this case

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

• due process is not violated when deductions are made from an inmate’s account “quite simply because they have purchased something on their own initiative.”
• co-payment requirement is “to promote inmate responsibility and the efficient use of scarce medical resources”
• no due process violation because inmates had been informed about the policy, policy required detailed documentation of eligible medical treatment, and inmates were required to sign a “co-pay log” to authorize charges
• finding “the ‘process due,’ if any, is truly minimal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).