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Prison Officials Liable for Not Correctly Computing Prisoner's Sentence
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1991, page 7
A federal prisoner brought a Bivens action against the warden and administrative systems manager for failing to investigate his claim that his sentence was miscalculated. The prisoner repeatedly asked prison officials to correctly compute his sentence to show time he had served in a German prison. They refused to do …
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