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YOUNG v. WALL

No. 03-220S.

359 F.Supp.2d 84 (2005)

Edward Eugene YOUNG, Plaintiff, v. A.T. WALL, in his capacity as the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

March 5, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Eugene Young, Sr., Cranston, RI, pro se.

Andrew B. Prescott, Nixon Peabody LLP, Providence, RI, for Plaintiff.

Rebecca Tedford Partington, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Department of Corrections, Cranston, RI, for Defendant.

DECISION AND ORDER

SMITH, District Judge.

Citizens have a protected property interest in the wages that are earned from their labor and the interest that accumulates from those wages. However, prisoners maintain diminished property rights, and therefore diminished ownership rights in earnings from labor performed while confined. In this case, Plaintiff Edward Eugene Young ("Plaintiff" or "Young"), a prisoner at the Adult Correctional Institutions...

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