Perotti v. Diane Quinones, No. 14-1229 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePerotti , convicted as a felon possessing ammunition, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), was sentenced as an armed career criminal to 210 months. Perotti was housed at the Terre Haute penitentiary, where he found employment as an orderly in the prison’s education department, which provides classroom instruction to inmates and oversees the prison’s leisure and law libraries. Perotti was responsible for janitorial tasks, supervised by instructors. An instructor offered him a promotion to the position of law clerk, assisting other prisoners with legal research. He accepted, but was later told that the department administrator had disapproved the promotion because Perotti had filed too many grievances. After an associate warden intervened he was given the position, about a month later. He was removed from that position weeks later, after another instructor filed a misconduct report that Perotti possessed another inmate’s legal materials outside of the library, in violation of prison rules. He was vindicated and awarded back pay, but he was not reinstated nor given another job before he was transferred to another facility. A jury rejected his claim under 42 U.S.C. 1983. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, upholding denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum and arranging for Perotti to participate in the trial by video conferencing.
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