Carson Barrio Probe

Armando Ramirez, an Hispanic inmate at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that prison officials had discriminated against him on the basis of race when they: (1) subjected Hispanic inmates to a more intensive security-level reclassification review; (2) denied all Hispanic inmates the ability to work as “critical workers”…