Can an inmate claim a right to be transferred to a different prison classification based on the Fourteenth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Grandison v. Stainer, CASE NO. 1:11-cv-01506-LJO-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
Plaintiff can not claim any constitutional right to a particular prison classification arising directly from the Fourteenth Amendment, as inmates have no liberty interest in custody classification decisions. Hernandez v. Johnston, 833 F.2d 1316, 1318 (9th Cir. 1987); Moody v. Daggett, 429 U.S. 78, 88 n. 9 (1976).
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