Can an inmate bring a parole claim in a civil rights action?

The only type of parole claim that can be brought in a civil rights action is a claim seeking invalidation of "state procedures used to deny parole eligibility . . . and parole suitability," and not a claim for "an injunction ordering [an] immediate or speedier release into the community." Wilkinson v. Dotson, 544 U.S. 74, 82 (2005). At most, in a civil rights action an inmate can seek as a remedy "consideration of a new parole

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application" or "a new parole hearing," which may or may not result in an actual grant of parole. Id.