Does the Due Process Clause bar a defendant from being transferred to a maximum security prison?
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The following excerpt is from Chambers v. Barrows, 859 F.2d 154 (9th Cir. 1988):
6 The Due Process Clause does not create a liberty interest to be free from transfer to a maximum security prison absent a state law or practice conditioning such transfers on substantiated acts of wrongdoing or the occurrence of other events. Meachum v. Fano, 427 U.S. 215, 223-29 (1975).
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