following decisions: McKinnon v. Patterson, 568 F.2d 930 (2d Cir.1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1087, 98 S.Ct. 1282, 55 L.Ed.2d 792 (1978); Mawhinney v. Henderson, 542 F.2d 1 (2d Cir.1976); Crooks v. Warne, 516 F.2d 837 (2d Cir.1975); United States ex rel. Walker v. Mancusi, 467 F.2d 51 (2d Cir.1972); and Powell I, 392 F.Supp. 628 (S.D.N.Y.1975), aff'd as modified, 542 F.2d 101 (1976). 20 . Cases from this Circuit included United States ex rel. Walker v. Mancusi, 338 F.Supp. 311 (W.D.N.Y.1971) (confinement in Attica’s special housing unit in wake of Attica riots involved "harsh reduction" of privileges, and thus cannot be imposed absent minimum procedural safeguards; Sostre procedures deemed adequate), aff’d, 467 F.2d 51 (2d Cir.1972); Carter v. McGinnis, 320 F.Supp. 1092 (W.D.N.Y.1970) (<HOLDING>); and Kritsky v. McGinnis, 313 F.Supp. 1247,
holding that allowing inmates to select volumes twice each week from a list of books available in the county law library and limiting inmates to no more than two volumes at a time violated the inmates rights to meaningful access to the courts holding inmates in segregation unit without charges being filed against them and without informing them of reasons for such confinement violated inmates due process rights holding ifrp does not deprive inmates of constitutional rights to due process holding that inmates have a property interest in their money holding that namecalling without any appreciable injury did not violate an inmates constitutional rights