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Alaska Classification Subject to Court Review
Loaded on May 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1998, page 11
The supreme court of Alaska held that prison classification hearings are adjudicatory determinations subject to judicial review and that Alaska prisoners have a state constitutional right to rehabilitation. Richard Brandon is an Alaska state prisoner transferred to a privately run prison in Florence, Arizona, as part of an effort to ...
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Prisoner Privileges,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Location:
Alaska.
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