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Retaliation for Grievances Illegal
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1994, page 8
Gary Hines is a California state prisoner. Hines filed suit claiming that prison guards had broken his television set in retaliation for administrative grievances he had filed against them. After filing a grievance against the guards who allegedly broke his television, another guard infracted him for allegedly tampering with the …
Filed under:
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Retaliatory Discipline,
Administrative Exhaustion.
Location:
California.
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