Task: songer_weightev

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to issues that may appear in any civil law cases including civil government, civil private, and diversity cases. The issue is: "Did the factual interpretation by the court or its conclusions (e.g., regarding the weight of evidence or the sufficiency of evidence) favor the appellant?" This includes discussions of whether the litigant met the burden of proof. Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

PER CURIAM.
In accordance with 10th Cir.R. 9(e) and Fed.R.App.P. 34(a), this appeal came on for consideration on the briefs and record on appeal.
This is an appeal by a prisoner at the Lexington Correctional Center in Oklahoma, seeking review of a decision by the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma dismissing his complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as legally frivolous.
Plaintiff sought an injunction against the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to require him to reclassify plaintiff to minimum security status at Lexington. Plaintiff alleged that before the promulgation of a new classification system he would have been eligible for reclassification after serving ten percent of his sentence. Under the new system, however, plaintiff must serve twenty percent of his sentence before he is eligible for reclassification. Plaintiff argued that the new classification system violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution.
To violate the Ex Post Facto Clause, the new classification system “must be a penal or criminal law, retrospective, and disadvantageous to the offender because it may impose greater punishment.” Paschal v. Wainwright, 738 F.2d 1173, 1176 (11th Cir.1984) (footnotes omitted) (citing Weaver v. Graham, 450 U.S. 24, 29, 101 S.Ct. 960, 964, 67 L.Ed.2d 17 (1981)).
The change that defendant challenges relates to the internal administration of a prison. In a similar instance the Eighth Circuit found that a change in a prison regulation resulting in the double celling of prisoners was not an ex post facto law. See Glynn v. Auger, 678 F.2d 760, 761 (8th Cir.1982). The Augur court relied on the Supreme Court’s decision in Malloy v. South Carolina, 237 U.S. 180, 35 S.Ct. 507, 59 L.Ed. 905 (1915), in which the Court explained that the Ex Post Facto Clause was designed “to secure substantial personal rights against arbitrary and oppressive legislative action, and not to obstruct mere alteration in conditions deemed necessary for the orderly infliction of humane punishment.” Id. at 183, 35 S.Ct. at 508. Cf. DeVeau v. Braisted, 363 U.S. 144, 160, 80 S.Ct. 1146, 1155, 4 L.Ed.2d 1109 (1960) (“The question in each [ex post facto] case, where unpleasant consequences are brought to bear upon an individual for pri- or conduct, is whether the legislative aim was to punish that individual for past activity, or whether the restriction of the individual comes about as a relevant incident to a regulation of a present situation.”). We conclude that in the absence of any showing of a punitive intent, the Ex Post Facto Clause does not bar a prison from changing the regulations governing their internal classification of prisoners. See 10th Cir.R. 17(b).
The judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma is AFFIRMED.
The mandate shall issue forthwith.

Question: Did the factual interpretation by the court or its conclusions (e.g., regarding the weight of evidence or the sufficiency of evidence) favor the appellant?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D