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NY Prisoner Has Due Process Right to Remain In Population

Loaded on April 15, 1992 published in Prison Legal News April, 1992, page 8
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Ad-Seg Hearings. Location: New York.
New York state prisoner Altagarcia Santana filed a civil rights suit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, claiming that his right to due process had been violated when he was placed in "keeplock" and not given a hearing for five days. When the hearing took place it lasted for four days. …

 

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