The Sixth Appellate District granted a prison warden’s petition for writ of mandate challenging a trial court order. The court held that an inmate seeking parole did not have a due process right of access to confidential prison records that could be relied on to support a denial of parole where disclosure of those records could put a confidential informant in jeopardy..
Brice Glasgow was incarcerated in 1980 after being fond guilty of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. In 2010, the Board of Parole Hearings found Glasgow eligible for parole. The Governor reversed that decision, relying on a confidential prison file that indicated Glascow had trafficked in prescription drugs while in prison.
