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Wolff Hearing Required Before Detainees Punished
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 3
Ernest Walker is a pretrial detainee at the Navarro County Jail in Corsicana, Texas. Walker asked a jail guard to open his cell door so he could get some chips to eat. The guard refused and claimed Walker called him an obscene name. The guard placed Walker in segregation. The ...
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