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WA Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on June 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1993, page 4
Tillman Farr was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla. Prison officials placed Farr in Administrative Segregation (ad seg) based on information from confidential informants which claimed Farr and others were going to assault a guard. Based on this information Farr spent several months in the …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Washington.
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