Opinion ID: 1894755
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Heading: Sufficiency of Evidence to Support Findings.

Text: Applicant contends the record is insufficient to support a finding that he violated any disciplinary rule. In arriving at its findings, the disciplinary committee considered a confidential information statement later examined in camera by the district court. It states applicant was involved with three other inmates in planning an escape from the Bennett facility by cutting through a fence. The informant identified the inmates involved. The informant stated he had been approached in the matter because he was in a position to supply the tools necessary to cut through the fence. In addition, the evidence indicated the informant owed gambling debts to the persons who had approached him. Investigators determined that there was a circumstantial probability of reliability in the informant's statements. He was given a polygraph examination concerning these events which produced satisfactory results. Viewing the record as a whole, we conclude the disciplinary committee was entitled to rely on the information received from the confidential informant and to disbelieve applicant's denial of his involvement in the escape plan. See Wilson v. Farrier, 372 N.W.2d 499, 502 (Iowa 1985). In postconviction proceedings, due process is satisfied if some evidence supports the decision of the disciplinary board. Walpole v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445, 454, 105 S.Ct. 2768, 2773, 86 L.Ed.2d 356, 385 (1985).