United States v. Brierley
United States v. Brierley
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff, Pearly Wilson, appeals a judgment of the district court dismissing his civil rights complaint and petition for a declaratory judgment.
Plaintiff is presently confined in the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, where he is serving two concurrent sentences of 25 years and an additional consecutive sentence of 3-6 years. Relying on the Act of May 11, 1901, P.L. 166, §§ 1-6 (repealed 1965), which provided for the commutation of sentences for good behavior, plaintiff seeks an order compelling the defendant prison officials to credit him and other prisoners similarly situated with the good behavior time they had allegedly accumulated prior to the Act’s repeal on July 23, 1965.
Plaintiff does not attack the constitutionality of the above statute. Instead, he maintains that, since they had not been cited for bad conduct, he and the other members of his class had an absolute right to such credits, which defendants have therefore “arbitrarily disallowed and cancelled without reason” in violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. Section 6 of the Act of May 10,1909
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.
. Pa.Stat.Ann. tit. 19, § 1086.
. Pa.Stat.Ann. tit. 19, § 1057.
Reference
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- United States of America, Pearly WILSON, C-6811, State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on his own Behalf and on Behalf of ail others similarly Situated in Pennsylvania's State Penal System v. Joseph R. BRIERLEY, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Prison Computation Board, and the Records Officer of the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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