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183613P.pdf 03/31/2020 Craig Smith v. James McKinney
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3613
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. The conditions of confinement
plaintiff endured in segregation and upon his transfer to the Iowa State
Penitentiary did not impose on him an atypical and significant hardship in
relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life; transfer to a higher
security facility alone is insufficient to establish an atypical or
significant hardship and demotion to segregation, without a detailed
description of the conditions of confinement, is not itself an atypical
and significant hardship; loss of privileges, such as employment and
wages, does not amount to an atypical or significant hardship.