The magistrate judge denied Plaintiff relief and dismissed his petition. Plaintiff alleged that the Morris Rules were still in effect and the RIDOC had acted in violation of the Rules by subjecting him to disciplinary segregation of more than thirty days, having his discipline appeal of heard by a single official rather than the required three-member panel, and opening and reading his outgoing mail. The RIDOC also did not file the new regulations under the state’s Administrative Procedures Act (“APA”). The Morris Rules represent the final consent decree issued in that case, governing the classification and privileges of inmates at the ACI.īeginning in 1995, the RIDOC unilaterally changed the Morris Rules without notice to the parties or the Court by eliminating the need for a three-member disciplinary board and the thirty-day limitation on disciplinary segregation. § 1983 challenging their conditions of confinement under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S.
In that case, inmates at the Adult Correctional Institution (ACI) in Rhode Island had filed a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) under 42 U.S.C. On January 16, 2017, Plaintiff petitioned the district court for the District of Rhode Island to enforce the Morris Rules, established by the court in 1972 in Morris v.
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