Does the Due Process Clause protect a duly convicted prisoner against transfer from one institution to another within the state prison system?
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The following excerpt is from McGinty v. Rue, 976 F.2d 737 (9th Cir. 1992):
[T]he Due Process Clause [does not] in and of itself protect a duly convicted prisoner against transfer from one institution to another within the state prison system.... That life in one prison is much more disagreeable than in another does not in itself signify that a Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest is implicated when a prisoner is transferred to the institution with the more severe rules.
Meachum v. Fano, 427 U.S. 215, 225 (1976).
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