Charles Jenkins, Lloyd Muhammad, Edward R. Williams, John King, Ra’d Abdul-Ramim Muhammad, Henry T. Mulka, Randolph…

Summary

The New Jersey Supreme Court held that the Commissioner’s emergency reclassification of homicide‑convicted inmates from full minimum to either “full minimum — inside only” or “gang minimum” did not create a protected liberty interest and therefore did not require the procedural safeguards of Wolff v. McDonnell; the Court affirmed the Appellate Division’s ruling on the “inside only” classification and reversed its requirement of a hearing for the gang‑minimum classification, directing the Department to amend its regulations accordingly.