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Habeas Doesn't Bar Section 1983
Loaded on June 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1994, page 3
Ronald Rhodes is a Kansas state prisoner. He was placed in segregation by prison officials claiming he was planning an outbreak of racially motivated violence in the prison mess hall. He was never given written notice of the grounds for placing him in segregation. No written explanation of the threat …
Filed under:
Res Judicata,
Habeas Corpus,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Kansas.
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