Joseph Detomaso v. Kenneth McGinnis Director, Illinois Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• states may move inmates to any prison in the system, and there is no protected interest in a particular prison classification or assignment
• “Protection against ‘arbitrary’ action is a form of substantive due process . . . .”
• “Because the Constitution protects an inmate’s access to the courts, prison officials may not retaliate against those who seek or obtain such access . . . .”
• “Community correctional centers are low security institutions but still prisons, and inmates have no more claim to be sent there than they have to avoid commitment to maximum-security penitentiaries.”
• “Community correctional centers are low security institutions but still prisons, and inmates have no more claim to be sent there than they have to avoid commitment to maximum-security penitentiaries.”
• “Community correctional centers are low security institutions but still prisons, and inmates have no more claim to be sent there than they have to avoid commitment to maximum-security penitentiaries.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).