unauthorized drugs." The state claims that tobacco is such contraband by virtue of its disruptive barter value in the no-smoking environment created by AS 33.30.015(a)(3)(J). 3 . 22 AAC 05.400(a) provides that "[pJrohibited conduct for prisoners in state facilities is governed by (b)-(e) of this section. A violation must be punished as either a major, high- or low-moderate, or minor infraction." 4 . See former 22 AAC 05.450(a) (1991) (effective Sept. 10, 1977) (providing that "[the disciplinary committee must be composed of three members appointed by the superintendent, unless the infraction charged is a minor infraction. In the case of a minor infraction, the superintendent may appoint a single member to hear the matter"); compare McGinnis v. Stevens, 543 P.2d 1221, 1228 (Alaska 1975) (<HOLDING>). 5 . 3AN-81-5274 Ci. (Alaska Super., September
holding that state prison officials enjoy wide discretion in regards to a prison boards finding of guilt holding that prison disciplinary hearing committee members are entitled to qualified immunity holding that prisoner must show prison officials were deliberately indifferent to prison conditions to establish an eighth amendment violation holding that prison conditions are those aspects of prison life affecting the entire prison population holding that a threemember panel consisting of prison officials and potentially inmates is sufficiently impartial to adjudicate major infractions insofar as knowledge of the conditions of the prison environment is important to an understanding of the significance of events which occur therein prison officials and offenders theoretically comprise an ideal disciplinary hearing committee