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Interstate Compact Does Not Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 2
Fred Pletka was an Iowa prisoner in disciplinary confinement at the Iowa State Penitentiary when he was transferred to Texas under the interstate corrections compact. Shortly after arriving in Texas Pletka was released into the general prison population. Later, when he was returned to Iowa, he was placed back into ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Transfers,
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Interstate Corrections Compact,
Qualified Immunity,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Locations:
Iowa,
Texas.
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