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101867P.pdf   08/10/2011  Michael Persechini  v.  L. Callaway
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-1867
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Colloton,
   Circuit Judge]
   Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Denying or terminating drug abuse
   treatment, like denial or termination of other discretionary prison
   programs, does not result in either an atypical or a significant hardship in
   relation to the remainder of the prison population and there is no
   protected liberty interest in continuing in the program; plaintiff did not
   have a protected liberty interest in the discretionary probationary release
   to which he would have become eligible if he had successfully completed
   the treatment program.